Editor Basics

The Studio editor is a canvas where your story’s blocks live as nodes, connected by lines that represent choices. This page is a tour of the editor’s layout.

The canvas

The middle of the screen is an infinite canvas (pan by dragging, zoom with your scroll wheel/trackpad). Each block in your story appears here as a card. Drag a block to reposition it — this is purely visual and doesn’t change your story’s logic.

Status badge

In the top-left corner you’ll see two indicators:

• A Published / Not published badge — click it to open the publish & share panel.
• A Saved / Unsaved changes indicator, showing whether your latest edits have been written to the server.

Left toolbar

A floating toolbar on the left edge of the canvas gives you quick access to:

• Undo / Redo — step backward or forward through your edit history (also Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y).
• Save story — saves your current story immediately.
• Add block buttons — one button per block type. Clicking one drops a new block of that type onto the canvas. See Blocks for what each one does.

Right-hand panel

The panel on the right has three tabs:

• Node — the inspector for whichever block is currently selected. This is where you edit a block’s content and its outgoing choices.
• Story — story-level settings: title, description, and cover image.
• Variables — the list of variables your story can read and write.

Node inspector

When you select a block on the canvas, the Node tab shows:

• Node Properties — the fields specific to that block type (text, variable name, etc.) — see Blocks.
• Branching — the block’s outgoing choices, with an + Add choice button to add more — see Choices & Branching.
• Set as start — makes this block the one players see first.
• Delete node — removes the block (and its choices) from the story.

Story inspector

The Story tab lets you edit:

• Title — shown on your dashboard and to players.
• Description — a short summary of your story.
• Cover — an image used as your story’s thumbnail.