For ARG and live-story teams
Plan stories that unlock.
StorySpine is the planning board for stories that open up as players progress. Keep what players have already seen above NOW, build what comes next below it, and track every puzzle, gate and branching path with your whole team.
Explore a sample projectThe problem
Writing tools plan a story that sits still.
Outliners and wikis assume the reader sees everything in order. Live, gated stories don’t work like that. Players unlock pieces week by week, split into factions, find a puzzle in one place and its answer somewhere else. So teams end up running the plan out of a spreadsheet, a wiki, three Discord threads and someone’s memory.
One long outline
A timeline with a NOW line: canon above, work in progress below
Puzzles in a separate doc
Every puzzle hangs off its story card, with its gate and answer
Branches drawn on a whiteboard
Tracks fork into two sides and merge back, right on the line
Decisions lost in chat
Open questions with options, votes and a clear result
What you get
StorySpine plans the story the way players will meet it.
A timeline with NOW
Stops run down a single spine. Everything players have seen sits above NOW and stays canon. Everything below is open to add, argue about and move. Side threads hang off the line; two sides fork and merge back.
Puzzles and gates
Each puzzle hangs off the card it belongs to: where players find it, what they need first, the answer, what it unlocks, and how it stops answer sharing. A puzzle with no gate is flagged before launch.
Team decisions
Turn “we should talk about this” into a question with options. Everyone votes, the notes stay attached, and the result links back to the cards it changes.
Discord-native
Sign in with Discord, where your team and players already are. Mentions and decisions arrive as DMs with buttons, so a vote takes one tap.
Pricing
One flat price per team. No per-seat maths.
Free
$0
For trying it on one story
- 1 project
- 3 members
- 250 MB of images
- 30 days of version history
Team
Most teams$15/ month per workspace
Flat, not per seat
- Unlimited projects
- Up to 15 members
- 10 GB of images
- 1 year of version history
- Discord: DMs and your team’s channel
Studio
Later
For larger productions
- Everything in Team
- Single sign-on
- Audit log
- Priority support
Prices are planned for the beta and may change before launch.
Your next season deserves a real plan.
We’re opening StorySpine to a few small teams at a time. Leave your email and we’ll reach out.