Local Story Engine

Local Story Engine is an offline tool for creating and testing branching interactive fiction on your phone. Write scenes, connect them with player choices, preview your story, and fix structural issues before you share it with readers.

Whether you are drafting a text adventure, a visual novel script, a CYOA story, or a small narrative game, Local Story Engine keeps everything on your device. No account, no cloud, and no internet required.

CREATE STORIES
• Build a personal library of interactive fiction projects
• Add a title and description for each story
• Search your library as your collection grows
• Delete projects you no longer need

WRITE SCENES (NODES)
• Add scenes with a title and body text
• Mark scenes as START, NORMAL, or ENDING
• Set a mood for each scene: Neutral, Tense, Funny, Dark, Romantic, or Mysterious
• Edit or remove scenes at any time

LINK CHOICES
• Connect scenes with branching choices
• Write clear choice text for each path
• Add optional condition notes for future logic
• See broken links when a target scene is missing

STORY DASHBOARD
• View key stats: nodes, endings, start nodes, and broken links
• Jump quickly to editing, play mode, the story map, or validation

STORY MAP
• See a graph-style overview of your entire project
• Review every scene and its outgoing branches in one place
• Spot dead ends and broken references at a glance

PLAY & PREVIEW
• Test your story like a reader would
• Tap choices to move through the narrative
• Track your current path length
• Save progress and restart a playthrough anytime

VALIDATION TOOLS
• Check for a missing or duplicate start node
• Find scenes with no choices that should branch
• Detect unreachable scenes
• Identify broken choice references
• Confirm that your story has proper endings

WHO IS IT FOR?
• Writers building choose-your-own-adventure stories
• Indie creators prototyping narrative games
• Students learning interactive storytelling
• Anyone who wants a simple, private story editor on Android

PRIVACY & OFFLINE USE
All stories, scenes, choices, and saved progress stay on your device. Local Story Engine works fully offline, so you can write anywhere—on a commute, on a trip, or without Wi‑Fi.

Start small with a short branching tale, or grow a complex web of scenes and endings. Local Story Engine gives you the structure, preview, and quality checks you need to turn ideas into playable interactive fiction.