We're Looking for Interactive Fiction Writers
Learn from our Interactive Fiction Story coaches.
Create with our amazing game engine TWIST.
Publish in our story portal TWIST Tales.
Build your own fan base.
Make money.
Be happy.
Create & Publish WITH US
Enter the FIST of TWIST
The FIST of TWIST is our worldwide pool of Freelance Interactive Super Talents. We constantly are looking for new talents, so feel free to apply! And of course, it’s not free. You will pay in words, worlds and stories! But we won’t charge any money from you.
Your Benefits
- Basic license for our game engine TWIST
- Participation in storytelling webinars
- Participation in our Interactive Audio Story training program
- Participation in our Interactive Story competitions
- Listing for freelance jobs for our own or our client’s IPs
Pitch Your Story Ideas
No matter the genre, we embrace creativity and diversity! If you want us to publish your Interactive Story idea or if you’re interested in self publishing, feel free to pitch now!
EXAMPLE
This is just an example from one of our stories. Feel free to write in your own style and flesh out what is important to you.
Title:
Dawn of the Beast
Concept:
The story combines the content of ancient empires with classic hunting elements. After the discovery of a mangled corpse you are supposed to track down the murderer and follow the trail of blood with a small squad and your mentor Quintus. Along the way you’ll encounter the beast, barbarians and possibly more dead. In this gripping mix of fantasy, mystery and history, you alone must decide who you can trust!
Scene:
“I… I…Die…” he stutters. The barbarian’s voice cracks and his body starts to shake. Those fierce eyes fixate on you. Then they become pale and cold. His body sinks down, the last sparks of life leaving. “A shame we didn’t find him sooner. Maybe he could’ve given us some information on what attacked him“, the young man at your side comments with a sad glance.
Choices:
Do you want to search the dead barbarian or leave his corpse in peace?
Writer’s Comment:
Searching the barbarian will reveal important clues to the story, while leaving the corpse in peace will raise reputation with the barbarians, which is decisive later on. Reputation will be handled via variables..
Explore our Interactive Formats
Interactive Audio Stories are interactive fiction stories in audio format. Depending on the platform users are playing on, they can either click buttons or simply talk to the story or the device to make choices.
Our game engine TWIST empowers creators to implement neat gameplay mechanics such as variables for inventory, character relations or random events.
As we are focused on audio, we recommend that you write for listeners rather than readers and to limit the playthrough time for a single story or an episode to 15-25 minutes.
Interactive Short Stories are highly engaging and intriguing interactive fiction stories in audio format. They follow the basic formula: One story. One choice. One minute.
From Twisted and Complementary Stories to Sagas or Survival Stories, they’re offering dozens of interesting varations to explore as a writer. All of them are easy to write and quick to produce and will inspire your creativity.
If you wish to learn more about Interactive Short Stories check our games library or shoot us an email.
Our game engine TWIST allows you to easily create quizzes or personality tests and effortlessly publish them on whatever device as text or in audio.
What more is there to say? Nothing. It’s that simple.
Get Better? Get the Book!
We put everything we found out about “How to write Interactive Audio Stories best “in 180 pages. It took us three years to write this book, but it was worth it.
It’s full of valuable information about narrative design and practical examples about interactive storytelling.
Subscribe and get the PDF for free!
Our Story Coaches Are Here to Help You
Our experienced Interactive Story Coaches will support you throughout your writing process.
From concept to draft to your perfect Interactive Fiction Story they will coach you in the usage of our game engine TWIST, crafting intriguing choices and writing engaging stories.
Create Interactive Stories with TWIST easily
TWIST is the market leading game engine for creating and publishing Interactive Audio Stories.
It's browser-based, no-coding and provides a visual interface along with great gameplay features.
Creating interactive fiction stories has never been that easy!
Improve Your Stories
Based on Data
TWIST allows you to analyze the behaviour of your users easily.
Access our report section any time to check on user’s engagement rates, session lengths, choices, and drop out points in your stories.
Understanding the way your fans behave in your story will help you to craft better works, engage more users and get you more revenues.
Help Articles
How to get started
Please use the form above to share your story with us. Unfortunately, we do not accept submissions via email or social media.
Watch the video above to get an idea of how easy it is to create an interactive audio story with TWIST. Our visual flow chart builder, rich gameplay mechanics, and testing environment give you everything you need to turn your ideas into reality quickly and easily.
TWIST plays out interactive audio stories on multiple platforms like Amazon Alexa, websites, our app or Discord. The whole process is managed in TWIST, basically all we have to do is click a button. At the moment, however, we only offer publishing. Our self-publishing program is expected to launch by the end of the year.
TWIST aka The Wonderful Interactive Story Tool is our game engine. You can simply log in from your browser and create interactive audio stories quickly and easily.
Twist Tales is our portal for interactive audiobooks, podcasts and quizzes. Think of it like Spotify or Audible, but for interactive audio experiences. Twist Tales is available as an app, on our website, on Discord or Amazon Alexa Skill and can reach very different audiences.
