Tools for each part of your interactive story.

Define the player, goal, obstacle, and cost of the central choice.

Separate the protagonist’s story from what the player can actually do.

Collect the audience, core experience, scope, and first validation assumptions.

Define world constraints, information access, and rules the story must respect.

Review motives, relationship conflicts, boundaries, and character arcs.

Organize goals, obstacles, turns, and information reveals into a causal outline.

Define competing interests, known information, immediate reactions, and later consequences.

Review the maintenance cost of nodes, reconvergence, and exclusive content.

Review viewing stretches, choice intervals, and timed interactions.

Connect clue discovery, deductions, hints, and recovery from failure.

Find duplicate states, write-only variables, and opportunities to simplify.

Map trust, resources, and thresholds so values have a clear purpose.

Review prerequisites, exclusions, priorities, and conflicting rules.

Map endings to conditions, key choices, and thematic payoffs.

Separate exclusive and shared scenes to assess reuse across story states.

Estimate footage needs from cast, locations, state differences, and alternate performances.

List cast, locations, props, and interactive footage needed for each scene.

Review node IDs, asset versions, subtitles, and unresolved requirements.

Select a representative segment to test identity, choices, feedback, and production risks.

Map reachable paths, ending conditions, and critical branches still to test.

Track character knowledge, promises, injuries, and props across paths.

Turn observations into issues, reproduction paths, changes, and retest records.