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Interactive Stories

Branching narratives built from HTML style guides. Each story teaches real history through the design language of its era.

45 stories · 500+ scenes · 500+ historical facts · keyboard support (1/2/3 keys)

The Forbidden Library

Universities — Bologna to the Ivy League

Dusty volumes and candlelit halls. Uncover forbidden knowledge in the world's oldest libraries.

27 scenes 7 endings 🔊 audio

The Golden Record

Space exploration — Voyager, Hubble, the pale blue dot

Stardust and nebula light. Launch humanity's message in a bottle across the cosmos.

13 scenes 3 endings 🔊 audio

The Morrison Case

Interactive detective fiction

A rain-soaked noir mystery with venetian blind shadows and hard-boiled narration.

15 scenes 3 endings 🔊 audio

Player One

History of video games, 1972-1995

From Pong to PlayStation through health bars, game over screens, and coin-op cabinets.

10 scenes 1 ending

The Arcade Wars

Golden age of arcades, 1978–1985

From Space Invaders to the NES through coin shortages, the crash, and Nintendo's Trojan Horse revival.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Last Semester

Bauhaus school history, 1919-1933

Weimar geometry meets rising fascism. Red squares, blue circles, and the school that changed everything.

10 scenes 3 endings

The Jazz Age

1920s America — Prohibition to the Crash

Gold and glamour in a Manhattan speakeasy. From flappers to Black Tuesday through geometric opulence.

17 scenes 3 endings

The Empire State

1929–1931 New York — Building the World's Tallest

Steel, ambition, and skywalkers. Three perspectives on raising 102 floors in 410 days during the Great Depression.

12 scenes 3 endings

Belle Epoque

Paris 1890-1910 — Mucha, cinema, the World's Fair

Organic curves and floral excess in fin-de-siècle Paris. Posters, absinthe, and the birth of cinema.

16 scenes 3 endings

The Scribe's Tale

Medieval bookmaking, 780-1515 AD

Illuminated manuscripts, monastic scriptoria, and Gutenberg's revolution on aged vellum.

18 scenes 3 endings

The Way

Zen Buddhism, tea ceremony, wabi-sabi

Ink wash and negative space. From Bodhidharma through kintsugi to the art of imperfection.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Geometer's Garden

Islamic geometry — algebra, the Alhambra, zellige

Star patterns and mathematical prayer in 14th-century Fez. Where art meets algebra.

18 scenes 3 endings

The Space Race

Sputnik to Apollo 11, 1957-1969

Starbursts and atomic optimism. From Sputnik's beep to Armstrong's boot print on teak and brass.

18 scenes 3 endings

The Express

1930s — ocean liners, Depression-era dreams

Chrome and aerodynamics aboard the SS Normandie. Speed lines cutting through the Great Depression.

16 scenes 3 endings

The Press

History of printing, 1430-present

Debossed type and ink bleed. From Gutenberg's workshop to desktop publishing's revolution.

19 scenes 3 endings

The Long Winter

Vikings to hygge — 1,200 years of Scandinavia

Warm wood and frost. From Lindisfarne raids to IKEA flat-packs and the art of coziness.

17 scenes 3 endings

Liberty

Statue of Liberty — copper, chemistry, conservation

Metallic patina and oxidation. The engineer who understood why copper turns green.

16 scenes 3 endings

The Network

History of the internet — ARPANET to the web

Neon-soaked data streams and shadow histories. Trace the hidden origins of the digital age through encrypted files.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Machine

Early computing — Babbage to the microchip

Green phosphor on black glass. Boot up the history of computing from mechanical gears to silicon.

17 scenes 3 endings

The First Reel

Cinema history — Lumière to Technicolor

Flickering silver and scratched celluloid. From a train arriving at a station to the golden age of Hollywood.

19 scenes 3 endings

The Decisive Moment

Photography — daguerreotype to digital

Safelight red and chemical baths. Develop the story of photography from silver plates to pixels.

21 scenes 2 endings

The Zine

Zine culture — punk to Riot Grrrl

Misregistered ink and DIY manifestos. Fire up a risograph and print the underground revolution.

14 scenes 6 endings

The Plaza

90s internet — malls, early web, digital nostalgia

Pink sunsets and marble columns. Wander the abandoned digital mall of a forgotten internet era.

19 scenes 3 endings

The Summer of Love

1960s counterculture — Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock

Swirling colors and expanding consciousness. Tune in to the revolution that changed a generation.

21 scenes 4 endings

The First Line

Drawing — cave walls to digital tablets

Pencil on paper, charcoal on stone. Follow the first mark ever made to the art of today.

20 scenes 4 endings

The Concrete Dream

Brutalist architecture — Le Corbusier to today

Raw concrete and radical function. Explore the buildings the world loves to hate.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Glassblower's Legacy

Glass — ancient craft to modern design

Frosted surfaces and translucent layers. Blow molten glass into 4,000 years of fragile history.

16 scenes 3 endings

The Spectrum

Light & optics — Newton's prism to lasers

Prismatic rainbows and iridescent shimmer. Split white light into the hidden science of color.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Bean

Coffee — Ethiopia to espresso bars

Warm browns and rising steam. Follow the bean from a goatherd's discovery to your morning cup.

17 scenes 3 endings

The Rivet

Denim — Levi Strauss to punk to haute couture

Indigo thread and copper rivets. Stitch together the story of the world's most democratic fabric.

18 scenes 2 endings

The Pigment Trail

Watercolor painting — Dürer to Turner

Soft washes and bleeding edges. Trace pigment across centuries of luminous, transparent art.

14 scenes 3 endings

The Wood Wide Web

Botany — mycorrhizal networks and forest ecology

Root threads and fungal highways. Discover the underground network that connects every tree.

18 scenes 2 endings

The Strip

Neon signs — Georges Claude to Las Vegas

Buzzing gas and electric glow. Light up the night with the story of neon from Paris to the Strip.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Meme Museum

Internet memes — Dawkins 1976 to AI slop 2025

Curate four gallery rooms of meme history. Bold pop-art panels, Warhol grids, and starburst reveals trace memes from Dancing Baby to Skibidi Toilet.

14 scenes 3 endings

The 5 Pointz

Graffiti culture — 5 Pointz, VARA, gentrification

Spray cans and concrete walls. Rise with the world's greatest aerosol gallery from a Queens factory to a federal courtroom.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Ladder

Competitive RTS — Dune II 1992 to StarCraft II 2020

Dark metal HUD panels and amber glow trace the rise, peak, and decline of competitive RTS. From PC bangs to BlizzCon — document everything.

12 scenes 2 endings

The Great Wave

Hokusai, ukiyo-e, and the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Indigo ink and woodblock prints. Enter 1830s Edo and follow a masterpiece from workshop to the world.

13 scenes 3 endings

The Cathedral Builders

Gothic architecture — Saint-Denis 1140 to Sainte-Chapelle 1248

Jewel-toned light through ribbed vaults. Shape stone, lead, and glass across a century of Gothic cathedrals from three perspectives.

18 scenes 3 endings

The Difference Engine

Mechanical computing — Babbage & Lovelace, 1822–1871

Brass gears and parchment blueprints. Three perspectives on the machine that anticipated the computer by a century — and was never completed.

15 scenes 3 endings

The Rosetta Stone

Decipherment — Napoleon 1799 to Champollion 1822

Lapis and gold inscriptions. Race to decode hieroglyphics through rival scholars, imperial warfare, and a slab of granodiorite.

13 scenes 3 endings

The Northern Lights

Norse mythology & science — Vikings to Birkeland, 900–1900 AD

Ethereal curtains of light over frozen seas. Follow the aurora from Viking longships through Norse cosmology to modern solar physics.

14 scenes 2 endings

The Javanese Resist

Indonesian textiles — 6th century to independence

Indigo wax and golden canting. Trace batik from royal courts of Java through colonial resistance to UNESCO recognition.

12 scenes 2 endings

The Physician’s Garden

Herbalism & pharmacology — 820 AD to modern medicine

Parchment and pressed herbs. Wander monastery gardens where monks turned plants into the foundations of modern pharmacology.

15 scenes 2 endings

The Versailles Court

Louis XIV — Versailles 1661–1715

Gold leaf and chiaroscuro shadows. Navigate the Sun King’s court of ceremony, ambition, and architectural grandeur.

14 scenes 2 endings

The Songlines

Aboriginal Australian art — Dreamtime to the present

Ochre dots and desert sand. Walk the songlines that map the land, sky, and 65,000 years of continuous culture.

17 scenes 3 endings