Create Your Own Interactive Gamebook for Free with Inklewriter. No Coding Experience Required
Writers, aspiring and established, this is a great opportunity for you to create an interactive book, have it published on its own dedicated page, convert it to Kindle, sell it, or offer it for free and expand your reader audience.
Irrespective of your aim, be it profit or the first trial and error, Inklewriter is an unprecedented tool for writers - it is intuitive, simple, and free. It does not require coding knowledge, and it lets you create interactive stories as you focus on the writing itself while the tool keeps track of your evolving branches.
In case you don't know, interactive books let readers make choices which way the story goes. Out There! Is one example of a mobile game with elements of interactive book. The genre is extremely popular in mobile gaming, so why not give it a try?
Inklewriter lets you branch out the story, tie the branches in together again, and repeat the process as many times as you need. The tool will tell you which branches are not finished, yet, so all you have to do is to think it through carefully.
The developer behind the free online tool is the same guy who created 80 Days ($4.99 on iTunes) and Down Among the Dead Men ($0.99 on iTunes). The interactive books Sorcery you can buy on Google Play and iTunes were created with Inklewriter, as well as many other hit books popular on all platforms.
Branch out, string back in and create your own interactive book to share it online, and when it is live online, anyone can read it in their browser.
Basically, anyone clueless about coding and games can create a mobile gamebook of their own, and in this case, all it takes is a good story. You no longer need to scrape cents and pennies to pay to developers to wrap your story in an app or a gamebook. You can now do it all by yourself.
It's not a magic wand of the Fairy Godmother, and you will need basic ingredients - a good story, a writing talent, learning skills, patience and dedication to read through the tutorial and think through the branches, so that each of them would read naturally.
If you think you are ready to hit the market with your book, you can convert it to Kindle format.
The tool features very deep and comprehensive tutorials, and it is ultimately up to you to choose how you want to go about it. You can patch something within half an hour, or you can spend several months working on something you feel deserves it. Inklewriter is simple on the surface, but its features and options are more than impressive for a free tool.
We will be toying with it for sure, and if you want to give it a try or find out more about it, head straight to the Inklewriter tool itself.
What do you think about Inklewriter? Are you willing to give it a try? Can this be a tool that eliminates the ultimate obstacle for a writer to create an interactive gamebook on his own, without the need to hire a developer? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
