Story City’s intuitive no-code Creator Tools and templates empower you to create and monetise immersive walkable experiences that come to life as adventurers are guided through the real-world locations of your branching narrative, powered by our GPS app.

Hi Product Hunt 👋👋 Why go on a boring old walk when you can be a secret agent 🕵️? Have you ever read a story and wish you could be in it? Struggling with how to bring your city back to life post-pandemic? If so, we’re excited for you all to check out Story City! 🙃 ✨WHY THIS?✨ Our mission is to help creators build a career in the cities that they love, by telling stories you can live. Story City allows creators to make and sell stories, games, and real-life choose-your-adventures that only open when you’re standing in the right location. We created Story City for 3 reasons: 🧙‍♀️We wanted to actually be a part of a story rather than just being told it. We wanted to experience our own city, connect with friends, and do something more interesting than collecting Pokemon in a park. 🎭But we were non-technical creators - fiction writers, theatre-makers, musicians and filmmakers. Traditional AR/Animated creatures wasn’t really our jam. What was our version of interactive entertainment? What was our version of Pokemon Go but for film, books, music, theatre, tours? 🏙️Our cities are struggling, *hard*. How could we help creators, cities, businesses, festivals activate public space with technology in a way that was fun, relevant and long-running? Story City makes you the hero of your own story, not only giving you the chance to take part in adventures in cities across the world, but a way to easily create and sell these adventures without needing to know how to code or animate. Whether you’re an independent creator (*welcome* writers, theatre-makers, musicians filmmakers and more!) or an organisation (******hello****** cultural districts, community leagues and downtown revitalisation orgs), you can make interactive stories an adventurer can literally step into and live. 🌎EXPLORE WITH STORIES MADE BY YOU🌏 Once you make a story using our Creator Tools, each story unlocks at a particular start point and from there can either follow one path or branch off into dozens of different locations around the city (and which ones you visit will depend on the path you pick through the adventure). Our Creator Tools are accessible from any desktop webbrowser and are: 🎉 Free for creators to use: We only make money if you make money 👾 No-code: Just add in your chapters and link them together, drop your pins on the map, and load in your content like you would for a blog post 🤑 Monetisable: You can set your creations as free to drive foot traffic for city revitalisation or to augment events, or set a sale price to build an additional revenue stream as a creator, or perhaps fundraising for a good cause. 🪄 Updateable: Any changes or updates you make to your content after going live gets immediately pushed to the app 🌈 Full of Resources: We’ve got the resources you need to inspire you to make everything from a choose your adventure, to a fitness walk, to a scavenger hunt, with resources from videos to templates to weekly Twitch Streams. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction, a musical journey or scavenger hunt, all stories on Story City are made by creators - like YOU - who know their cities best. You don’t need to be tech-savvy. You can use the methods you already know and love to create with, and our Creator Tools do the rest! We can’t wait to hear your feedback, and see what you create! You can sign up for your free creator account here and start creating now: https://about.storycity.app/crea... And if you’re a curious adventurer, you can download the Story City App here (So far we have adventures in Western Canada and Australia): https://about.storycity.app/down... Warmly, Emily

We'll be live on Twitch today at https://www.twitch.tv/storycity at 3pm PST - come on by, say hi, and ask any questions you'd like live answered. Would love any feedback you have!

Congrats on the launch this is a very cool idea After reading and going through it I realized how amazing it is But the website seems not to be responsive on my mobile device. I do not know why tho ..

@daniel_brantley Thanks so much for dropping by! So the link we have for the website is direct to the tools which is currently not optimised for mobile but for use on desktop browsers. But that is a top priority in the road map once we iron out the feedback for the desktop browser version - and appreciate that that is your first instinct as a creator to be mobile first. You can see more at our creator landing page here on mobile: https://about.storycity.app/crea... Any other feedback or comments don't hesitate to drop another message!

@emilycraven thanks I will check it out!

@daniel_brantley Thanks Daniel, our creator tools are best served on the desktop - creating a story usually requires some keyboard typing and we found that people were most effective when creating them on a desktop. We are planning on adding mobile support depending on feedback like yours!

@brettludwig that’s great I had the opportunity to actually check it out on my PC when i was less busy and it turned out to be great.

@brettludwig @daniel_brantley Amazing, thank you so much for taking the time to do that! Glad the desktop version worked well and will look at prioritizing a mobile responsiveness for the tools.

Cool, Congrats Em & team on your launch!

@ura_m Many thanks for your support! Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

@ura_m Thanks Urav! If you get a chance to check out the Creator Tools, we'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

@ura_m Appreciate it! We've been looking forward to this launch.

I love this idea so much. As a digital nomad, I'm always looking for new ways to explore the cities I'm visiting. It's often hard to work and squeeze in the standard walking tours that are available. I love that you can find unique and personal guides around a city that you can explore at any time. Great product, I can't wait to explore my next city with it!

Thank you Sarah! Perhaps we'll see a digital nomad's guide to your next city base?

I am excited to see how this company grows and be a part of their journey! Love the concept and the mission. Here to support!

Thanks so much for your support Akriti, great to have you as part of the community! Let us know if you have any questions!

New York is a perfect place to lives

Thank you Sarah! Perhaps we'll see a digital nomad's guide to your next city base?

I am excited to see how this company grows and be a part of their journey! Love the concept and the mission. Here to support!

Thanks so much for your support Akriti, great to have you as part of the community! Let us know if you have any questions!

New York is a perfect place to lives

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