Playing a Story

Published stories are played on skaz.io  — no account needed, unless the story is marked 18+.

Opening a story

Following a story’s link takes you to its intro screen: cover image, title, author, description, and (if applicable) an 18+ badge. Click Start the story to begin.

Playing

Each screen shows the current block’s text (and image, if it has one), along with buttons for its choices:

• One choice — a single “Continue”-style button.
• Multiple choices — one button per choice; picking one sends the story down that branch.
• Choice buttons can also be picked with the number keys 1–9, matching their position on screen (disabled while you’re typing into a text field).

A step counter at the top of the screen tracks how far you’ve gone. Some blocks pause to ask you a question with a text field instead of buttons — type your answer and submit to continue.

Conversations

Some scenes are dialogues: a background, the speaker’s portrait, and one line at a time along the bottom. Click anywhere on the scene — or press Space, Enter or → — to read on. The choices show up once the last line is on screen.

When a story won’t start

A story on a Free plan can be started a limited number of times each month. If the author has used them up, pressing Start the story tells you so, and the story opens again at the start of next month. If you were already partway through, you can still finish.

Playing with a class

In class, your teacher may run a story as a Jam: the story plays on the big screen and you vote on your phone. Open skaz.io/jam , type the code from the board and pick a name. No account needed.

Leaving and coming back

You don’t have to finish in one sitting. Close the tab and open the story again later — it offers to Continue from where you stopped, with your choices and variables intact. Start over begins a fresh playthrough instead.

Reaching an ending

A block with no choices is an ending. If the author named it, you’ll see which ending you reached; otherwise it’s a plain “The End”.

How others chose

Some stories show, right after you decide, how everyone else decided at the same moment — and at the end, how rare your ending is. It’s the author’s choice whether a story does this, and it’s only ever totals: nobody sees what you picked.

The endings mandala

When a story has more than one ending, the last screen shows a mandala: one petal per ending. The petals you’ve found are coloured in, with their names listed beside it; the rest are dashed outlines with a question mark — you can see how many are left, never what they are. Each new ending unfolds its petal as you reach it, and finding the last one completes the mandala.

From there you can Play again, which starts a fresh playthrough from the beginning.