CYOAwesome
A browser-based Choose Your Own Adventure engine. Play through branching stories or create your own interactive fiction — no coding required.
About CYOAwesome
Pick a path, face a consequence, pick again. CYOAwesome puts you inside branching stories where every choice steers the narrative — then flips the table and lets you build your own. Writing a new adventure means dropping into a clean editor, typing your scenes, and linking them together with choices. No code, no setup, just prose and decisions.
The creation side is where it gets genuinely interesting. You can sketch out a tense thriller, a comedic road trip, or a fantasy dungeon crawl and share it as a playable link. It sits squarely in the creative tools space, and it earns that label — the line between reader and author is thin by design.
Works entirely in the browser, so there's nothing to install. A keyboard and a few spare minutes are all you need; longer sessions reward players who want to build something with real depth rather than just click through a demo.
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How to use
• Write interactive fiction stories in plain text - the engine automatically converts them into playable choose-your-own-adventure games • Create scenes by typing scene names in ALL CAPS on their own lines • Link between scenes by mentioning scene names anywhere in your text (they become clickable) • Add multiple choice buttons using dashes: "- Go left [FOREST_SCENE]" • Use square brackets for game logic: [get key], [has sword?], [gold + 5] • Start dialogue lines with quotation marks for different text styling • Add images with [filename.jpg] and sounds with [filename.mp3] • Use conditional logic with [has item?] followed by [else] for alternate text • Display item quantities with [gold] gold coin[s] - the [s] appears only when plural • Click anywhere to speed up text that appears letter-by-letter • Goal: Create branching narratives where player choices determine the story outcome The engine runs your story immediately - just start typing to see your interactive fiction come to life.
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