Publishing & Sharing

A story only becomes visible to other players once you publish it. Before that, it’s private to you.

Publish status

In the top-left corner of the editor, you’ll see a badge showing your story’s current status:

• Not published — only you can see this story.
• Published — anyone with the link can play it.

Click the badge to open the publish panel.

The publish panel

The publish panel shows a preview of your story (cover, title, description) along with its current status.

• If your story is not published, you’ll see a Publish story button.
• If your story is published, you’ll see:
  • Copy link — copies the story’s shareable link to your clipboard.
  • Run story — opens the story in a new tab, exactly as a player would see it.
  • Hide story — unpublishes the story again, making it private.

Before you publish

Make sure your story:

• Has a starting block set (see Editor Basics — select a block and click Set as start).
• Has a title, description, and cover image set in the Story tab — these are shown to players before they start.
• Reaches at least one ending — a block with no choices shows players a “The End” screen.
• Plays cleanly from start to finish. Preview it first and walk every branch — that’s how you catch a dead end, a Variable Router with no matching condition, or an ending you can’t actually reach before readers do.

Embedding

Your story doesn’t have to live on a page of its own. The story’s dashboard has an Embed card with a ready-made snippet:

<iframe src="https://skaz.io/embed/YOUR-STORY-ID" style="width:100%;height:640px;border:0" allow="autoplay" loading="lazy"></iframe>

Paste it into your own site or blog and the story plays right there. Adjust the height to taste; the story scrolls inside its own frame.

How others chose

On the story’s page in Studio, the Player experience card has a switch: Show players how others chose. It’s off until you turn it on, and takes effect immediately — no need to republish.

With it on, players see:

• After each decision, for a moment: what share of players made the same call, with a bar for every option. Only at forks with two or more choices; never on a wheel of fortune, where chance decides, not players.
• At the end: how many players found the same ending — “Only 8% of players found this ending” is a strong reason to play again.

Branding

On Free and Creator, the player carries a small Made with Skaz badge, a Make your own button at the end, and “Skaz” in the tab title.

On Studio and Team it carries none of that: no badge, no invitation, no Skaz in the title or the intro — just your story. There’s nothing to switch on; it follows the plan of whoever owns the story, on the regular link, a custom domain and embeds alike.

After you publish

Once your story is live, its dashboard shows who’s playing right now and who’s finished, so you can see how readers move through it — and spot where they get stuck. You can Hide story at any time to pull it back to private, make edits, and publish again.