What is Skaz?

Skaz is a platform for creating and playing interactive, branching stories — the kind where the reader makes choices that change what happens next.

If you’ve ever made (or played) a “choose your own adventure” book, a visual novel, or a branching dialogue tree in a game, that’s the shape of a Skaz story.

The two halves of Skaz

• Studio (studio.skaz.io ) — a visual, node-based editor where you build your story. You add blocks for text, questions, and logic, then connect them together on a canvas. Studio also has an AI co-writer that can draft whole branches for you.
• Front (skaz.io ) — the public player. Anyone with a link can open a published story here and play through it, making choices along the way. See Playing a Story.

Core concepts

A story is made of a few simple building blocks:

• Story — the project itself. It has a title, description, cover image, and one or more categories, and contains everything else below.
• Blocks (nodes) — the individual steps of your story: a piece of text, a question for the reader, or a bit of logic that updates the story’s state. See Blocks for the full list.
• Choices — the buttons a reader clicks to move from one block to the next. A block can have one choice (just “Continue”) or several (real branching). See Choices & Branching.
• Variables — named values (numbers, text, or true/false flags) that your story remembers as the reader plays, used to track state and steer the story down different paths. See Variables.

Accounts and plans

You need an account to create stories in Studio (reading published stories on Front doesn’t require one, unless a story is marked 18+). See Account & Sign In for how sign-up works, and Plans & Pricing for what each plan includes — free accounts can publish up to 3 stories; paid plans raise that limit and unlock the AI co-writer.

Where to go next

• New to Skaz? Start with Getting Started to create your first story.
• Already have a story open in the editor? Jump to the Editor Guide for a full tour of the canvas, blocks, and publishing.
• Just want to read a story someone shared with you? See Playing a Story.