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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.

49 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

The Ofrenda

Día de los Muertos — Aztec roots to modern celebration

Marigolds, sugar skulls, and copal smoke. Build an altar of remembrance and learn why Mexico celebrates the dead with joy.

14 scenes 2 endings

The Proof

Fermat's Last Theorem — 358 years of obsession

Chalk dust and margin notes. Follow Andrew Wiles' secret seven-year quest to prove the most famous conjecture in mathematics.

12 scenes 2 endings

The First Chip

The integrated circuit — Kilby & Noyce, 1958–1959

Copper traces and solder points. Two engineers 1,200 miles apart invent the microchip in parallel, launching the digital age from a slab of germanium.

13 scenes 2 endings

The Hidden Cosmonaut

Soviet space program — secrets, erasures & the Moon race

Red stars and classified dossiers. Open the sealed KGB archive and uncover cosmonauts erased from history, the anonymous Chief Designer, and the rocket that never reached the Moon.

13 scenes 3 endings