Choose your own Adventure

Create a multipage site that provides a non-linear story experience.

Create a homepage (index.html) as the splash screen for your story. Create an image to engage and entice your readers. Add a link to another page for the reader to click to enter, or begin, the story.

Create another page to begin the story. The story should put the reader in the shoes of the main character. Each page should contain one to three short paragraphs before giving the reader a choice to make. Add two or more links to each page that will allow the reader to make their choice and link to the corresponding page.

You may have circular paths through the story (main character returns to an earlier spot in the story) as long as this is done in a natural and logical way.

You may have diverging paths in the story that come back to the same main path or to the same ending, if done so in a natural and logical way.

On any path that ends the story, add a link either to the homepage to allow the reader to start over or to the previous key decision point to allow the reader to make a different choice without starting completely over. The type of story you tell should determine which of these options would be better for your readers.

Create an external stylesheet that each HTML page links to. Use the stylesheet to give a consistent look to all the pages that make up the story.

Looking for inspiration?

- CYOA game - the Late Show with stephen colbert
Escape from the Man-Sized Cabinet

- CYOA movie - A Silk Tricky Production
Bank Run

- instructional video - khan academy
HTML internal links