Creating a Story
New stories are created from the Studio dashboard, not from inside the editor. Click New story to open the creation dialog.
Fields
- Start from — a blank canvas, or one of the templates.
- Title — required, unless you picked a template, which brings its own.
- Categories — required, pick at least one. See below.
- Cover — optional, a PNG or JPEG image.
- Contains adult content (18+) — only shown if you’re 18 or older. See below.
Once created, you’re taken straight into the editor to start building. Only the title, description, and cover can be changed later, from the editor’s Story tab — categories and the 18+ flag are set once, at creation, and can’t be edited afterward.
Creating a story counts against your plan’s story limit. If you’re already at your limit, the dashboard shows an upgrade prompt instead of the creation dialog.
Templates
A template is a finished, working story: blocks, branches, variables and named endings, laid out on the canvas and ready to publish as it stands. Pick one and the editor opens on a story you can play immediately and rewrite line by line.
| Template | Good for |
|---|---|
| Flight SK-404 | Seeing everything Skaz can do: dialogue with characters, a choice timer, a wheel of fortune, sound, typed answers and four endings in one story |
| Customer complaint | Support and customer-facing teams — four endings from one first reply |
| Handling an objection | Sales training — what happens after “it’s too expensive” |
| Feedback conversation | Managers — a missed deadline and a defensive report |
| New-hire onboarding | People teams — asks the starter’s name and walks them through week one |
| Safety drill | Compliance — two scored calls where the instinctive answer is wrong |
| Language practice | Tutors — ordering coffee, scored on politeness |
| Knowledge diagnostic | Tutors — three questions, a score, a recommendation per band |
| Interactive story | Fiction — a short branching story with four endings |
Nothing about a template is locked: every block, variable and ending is yours to change, and deleting the lot leaves you exactly where Blank canvas would have.
Categories
Categories describe what kind of story you’re making. The list is fixed:
Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, Horror, Education, Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Slice of Life, Product, Thriller.
You can select more than one if your story spans genres.
18+ content
If your account’s birthdate makes you 18 or older, the creation dialog shows a Contains adult content (18+) checkbox. Enabling it flags the story so that:
- Anonymous readers must sign in before they can play it.
- Signed-in readers under 18 can’t play it at all — they see a message explaining the story isn’t available to them.
There’s no age rating below 18+ — a story is either open to everyone or gated behind this check.
What the 18+ flag covers
Tick it when your story leans adult: drugs and alcohol, violence and its aftermath, strong language, heavy themes, horror, or romance that goes further than a fade-out. That’s what the flag is for.
It is not a licence for anything. The content rules apply to every story, flagged or not — pornography is not allowed on Skaz at all, and sexual content involving minors (including fictional characters written or drawn as minors) is banned outright and gets the account removed. The line is naturalism and intent: an intimate scene that serves the story is fine, a scene written to arouse the reader is not.
The flag also depends only on how explicit a scene is, never on who is in it. LGBTQ+ characters, same-sex couples, trans and non-binary characters, interfaith or interracial relationships are ordinary story material and are never, on their own, a reason to mark a story 18+ — a kiss is rated the same whoever is kissing.
Titles, descriptions and covers are visible before the age check, so keep those clean even on an 18+ story.