About Telling Tales
Every choice tells a tale.
Stories shaped by your choices
Telling Tales turns text files into branching stories you can play in a browser. Each decision can lead to a different scene, reveal new text, add items to your inventory, or bring the story to an end.
You can play the bundled adventures without an account. Registering lets you save your progress and create adventures of your own with the browser-based editor.
Write and share
Games use a readable, Markdown-like format designed to keep the writing at the centre. The format supports choices, variables, conditional and random text, inventories, reusable files, custom styles, and winning or losing endings.
Games created in the editor remain private to their author. When you choose to share one, the site creates an unguessable test link that lets other people play it in Demo mode without accessing your editor or saved progress.
Built for the web
Telling Tales is built with .NET and Blazor. Account details and saved progress are kept in the application database, while authored game files are stored separately from the deployed application.