Tutorial 1 — A Branching Story

You’ll build a tiny “choose your own adventure”: the reader stands at a crossroads, picks a direction, and reaches one of two endings. By the end you’ll understand blocks, choices, branching, and endings — the backbone of every Skaz story.

What you’ll use: Text blocks, choices, and a starting block.

Create the story

From the Studio home, click New story, give it a title like The Crossroads, pick a category (Adventure works), and create it. You’ll land in the editor with one empty block on the canvas.

Write the opening scene

Click the block to select it. In the Node tab on the right, set its text to:

You come to a fork in an old forest road. The left path is dark and overgrown. The right path is bright but you hear voices ahead.

This is your opening. Make sure it’s the starting block: with it selected, click Set as start in the Node tab. (The first block usually already is.)

Add the two destinations

From the left toolbar, add two more Text blocks. Give them these texts:

Left ending: You push through the brush and find a quiet clearing with a sleeping dragon. You tiptoe away, richer for the story. The End.
Right ending: You follow the voices to a bandit camp. They’re friendly, as it turns out, and share their fire. The End.

Drag them somewhere tidy — position is just visual.

Connect the choices

Select your opening block and open the Branching section in the Node tab.

Click + Add choice. Label it Take the left path and connect it to the left ending block.
Click + Add choice again. Label it Take the right path and connect it to the right ending block.

Each choice becomes a button the reader sees, and each points at a different block — that’s a branch.

A choice’s label is exactly the button text the reader reads, so phrase it in-world: “Take the left path”, not “Option A”.

Leave the endings as endings

Your two ending blocks have no choices of their own. In Skaz, a block with no outgoing choices is an ending — the reader will see a “The End” screen there. So there’s nothing more to add.

Preview it

Click the eye icon (Preview story) in the left toolbar. Play from the start, pick a path, and confirm you reach the right ending. Hit Restart and try the other path too.

Fill in a description and cover in the Story tab, then click the status badge (top-left) → Publish story. Copy the link and send it to a friend.

What you learned

A story is blocks connected by choices.
Multiple choices on one block create a branch — different readers reach different blocks.
A block with no choices is an ending.
Exactly one block is the starting block.

In Tutorial 2 you’ll ask the reader for their name and use it in the story — your first variable.