What a year it's been!
Six months ago, we've released storylike and showed it around at four fairs, only to be met everywhere with incredibly positive, motivating feedback. For that, we'd like to take the chance on this last day of the old year to say thank you. Thank you for lifting us up, for sharing your experiences, for giving us so much new input on how to make storylike even better.
Starting a new platform is not an easy task, making your trust and engagement for storylike even more valuable to us. Currently, there's so much going on on storylike: New novels, conventions, theater plays, fan fiction, web comics, and descriptions of fictional worlds – this only strengthens our believe that things work best with good collaboration and motivation. And motivation we got aplenty through your feedback and reactions on fairs, over the social networks and in personal talks.
We've already planned some of our next moves for 2020 – most prominently Leipziger Buchmesse and Weltenwerker Konvent in March 2020, but FeenCon and DreieichCon will also not have seen the last of us. Already looking forward so much to meeting you there! Let's all have a fantastic 2020!
New year, new chances! In the past few weeks, we’ve been working very hard in order to present you with a new version of storylike today that brings loads of new features. We’ll present these features to you bit by bit.
Today: New feature “locate”
As author, you need good overview about which characters, creatures, artifacts and the like appear in which stories and story lines.
Now, you can find out very easily in which stories a Wiki article is used: Just click the respective Wiki article’s button “Locate”. After choosing a story, the story’s map shows you exactly where the article is mentioned. In addition, you can switch to other Wiki articles to see where they are mentioned in the story by clicking the article’s icon besides the info symbol.
With this feature, you can keep an author’s overview of where which Wiki article is used. This improves and simplifies your story’s consistency significantly, especially if you collaborate with other authors. Your readers, on the other hand, will be able to follow their favourite characters' plotlines even easier.
We’re on the road again: In March, we’ll go east to #BuchmesseLeipzig! From March 12-15, 2020, in hall 5, booth D407, we’ll be happy to show you storylike’s new features and answer all your questions. So come on over, get comfy, tell us about your new projects, enjoy some candy, and - with a bit of luck - take away a voucher. We can’t wait to meet you there!
Gewinne 2 von insgesamt 10 Karten für die Leipziger Buchmesse!
Schreib' eine Kurzgeschichte oder Episode gemeinsam mit mindestens einer weiteren Person und veröffentliche diese zwischen dem 1. Februar und 1. März 2020 auf storylike.com. Wir prämieren die 5 am meisten gelesenen Geschichten mit jeweils 2 Tageskarten für die Leipziger Buchmesse vom 12.-15. März zusammen mit einer kleinen Überraschung an unserem Messestand D407 in Halle 5.
Zu den Teilnahmebedingungen geht’s hier entlang: https://support.storylike.com/help/de-de/7-gewinnspiel
Secret intrigues, scenes not meant to be for everybody, or shortcuts in a story only available to a chosen few? All that’s possible now with storylike.
You can share single plot lines with individual storylikers. Specify in a storyblock’s settings (click “Edit” and then “More”) the storylikers you want to be able to read it - indepent of all other settings of the story. In the text and the map, the respective plot lines will stay invisible to all other storylikers.
With hidden story paths, you can add a special, thrilling level to your stories and turn them into even better adventures that each and every one of your readers and co-writers may experience on their own.
Intrigues and deceit, but also a story’s or campaign’s golden thread or even as small a thing as the central villain’s background require one essential thing: secrecy. And the more people contribute to a story, the harder secrecy is to ensure.
In storylike, you may now solve this problem by giving access to whole wikis, individual wiki collections, or even individual wiki articles to a chosen few. To do that, click on “Edit” in wikis, wiki collections, or wiki articles, and enter the storylikers you want to access the respective information under “Read” or “Reader” in the section “Access” or “Access Control”.
This way, you can now exchange ideas with your contributors on how the story may go on much easier, and all of you can keep up to date without any danger of spoilering your readers unintentionally.
In March, we’ll not only be in Leipzig, oh no! On March 7-8, 2020, we’ll also be taking part at Weltenwerker Konvent in Gießen, Germany. From 10 a.m., we’ll have our booth ready for you at Messe Gießen with cozy cushions, loads of stories, delicious candy, and one or two vouchers. So, come on over and stay a while, we won’t bite!