The core element of Stornaway.io is the Story Island – which might be a scene, a location or a clip. Each island is shown as a box, with arrows which show how it links to other islands.
Stornaway’s Story Map makes it super easy to follow the paths that a viewer might take – to go back and take another path, to zoom out and see the whole story.
Using linear writing tools for interactive scripts is a headache – tools like Final Draft can’t create links between pages.
Stornaway’s script editor is designed for non-linear navigation, and each Island in the map clearly links to its own section of script.
Our script pages show the choices to move forwards (and backwards), with links that let you jump to the right pages. See more in our help section here
Create text buttons and make them change when clicked.
Add up to 4 onscreen choices for each video, optimised for both mobile and desktop.
Use the sidebar in the Story Map to customise button styles, positions, text and background colors. Set defaults and individualise for each Island.
You can make any of your buttons invisible, and set any area of your frame to be clickable.
This lets you use people, objects and complex graphics in your uploaded files and make them clickable without adding buttons. See more here
Let your audience know how long they have left to make a choice with a timer bar that slides down to zero.
Set the colours to match your text buttons, invert or use transparent backgrounds.
Choose what happens when your audience makes a choice.
Set the choice to cut to the next clip as soon as the choice is clicked, or set it to wait until the end of this clip and flow on to the next seamlessly.
When the audience leans back or can’t decide, the story continues. As the author, you decide which path they should follow.
You can also connect islands without choices to edit together seamlessly, and set up hidden paths that are only followed if no choice is made.
This game-changing mechanic allows you to add more advanced settings to your choices. Whether it’s keeping track of scores, adjusting character relationships or managing inventories, our new game settings features gives you the power to store, change and check the value of these variables across your project.
This feature has the ability to power FMV games, training scenarios and quizzes through our no code drag-and-drop editor.
Use Stornaway.io, the world’s favourite interactive video platform, to connect up 360º videos into immersive interactive experiences, for publishing on the web, social media, direct to YouTube – and to VR devices via our Unity plugin.
Watch this video to find out more and sign up free to create your first experience!
Thousands of people all over the world are using Stornaway.io to make interactive video experiences for business, marketing, training, education and learning, as well as for film, tv and game projects. See our Customers and Examples pages to find out more.
Stornaway.io is so easy and powerful that our users include the full range of experience and budgets – from people who are totally new to video, to the world’s most experienced interactive filmmakers making big budget interactive films for game consoles and cinemas.
The thing they all have in common is that they love using Stornaway.io to create interactive videos.
Stornaway.io is uniquely flexible and open, so you can publish your interactive videos to Stornaway’s amazing player, to the Web and Social Media, to LMS and CMS platforms, to YouTube and to other compatible platforms as they become available.
The Web and Social Media
For a fully-featured and custom-designed experience, you can publish to your own site and to social media using our powerful Stornaway player and streaming platform.
LMS (Learning Management Systems)
Stornaway.io projects can be embedded on LMS pages, and thus included in the SCORM packages that LMS systems and eLearning authoring tools use to exchange data and track learners’ outcomes. We are working on further integrations with LMS standards – please get in touch if you’d like to know more.
YouTube
We have created the first game engine for YouTube. Craft and test your interactive video stories in Stornaway.io and publish them direct to YouTube with interactive links, to reach their huge global audience of 2 billion monthly users.
Unity and Unreal – for Mobile, Steam, Consoles, VR
Turn your interactive video into an App to play on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Quest VR, Smart TVs and even game consoles, which you can offer and sell on your platform of choice, using our no-code Unity plugin. Unique flexibility and simplicity for everyone!
Compatible VOD platforms
Stornaway.io was designed as a universal authoring tool, and we’re working towards integrations with major VOD platforms. If you’re a producer looking to publish to a 3rd party platform, we can solve your storytelling and delivery problems – contact us for more details.
Stornaway.io’s Free plan allows you to write and publish interactive video experiences.
Our plans for more advanced features, such as collaborating with others and more streaming bandwidth start at $29 per month for our Not-for-Profit plan.
You can find full details of our plans and how to sign up on our pricing page.
Our plans >Interactive video is much more than just a video with a button on it. It’s a whole new way of thinking about video, by joining up multiple clips into viewer journeys and experiences. From feature films and immersive theatre to demos and tours, from recruitment and training to challenges and behaviour change campaigns – the uses of interactive media stories are exploding (seemingly by the day!)
We built Stornaway.io as an interactive filmmaking platform, and it’s grown to be a creative-focused production tool for all kinds of interactive video stories and journeys in every sector. We’re proud to be a part of a rich ecosystem of tools.
There are lots of platforms to choose from – and each has a slightly different offering. So for 2023, we’ve took a dive into 23 top options – along with information on their key features, who they’re best for and (where possible) pricing – and compiled our findings in an article: 23 interactive video tools for 2023.
We hope that whatever you’re trying to do, you give Stornaway.io a test drive – do let us know how you get on. Have a look at some of our examples and case studies via the links below to see what’s possible.