The Story Engine

Toy, 2026

Thirty story structures on one timeline. Write your story once and read it thirty ways, with an animation for every structure.

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“Make a story engine thing. Look up, possibly on Reddit, the table that compares all the various story formats and allows and supports input to do something with.”The ask that started it, Oct 12, 2026

Started: Oct 2026
Lines: 3,070
Media: 80.2 MB

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THE NEXT CHAPTER

The Story Engine became StoryRuler.

This page preserves the original experiment and its place in the numbered gallery. The idea became StoryRuler: a dedicated product for learning 30 story structures and exploring your own story through them.

See the current product ↗Open StoryRuler ↗

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