Made a gamebook that sends serialized, entirely custom chapters by email and adapts to your whole choice history.
Grew up on Fighting Fantasy, replayed City of Thieves probably four or five times. Always wondered why that format never made it into daily habit territory. There's Twine, Inkle, Choicescript. All great. But they're still discrete "sit down and play" experiences. Nobody really cracked the gamebook as something you return to every day.
So I built something. PersonalPathways sends you a new chapter by email. You make a choice at the end of each one, and the story adapts based on your whole history, not just the last pick. The narrative voice shifts. Which details get surfaced changes. It builds a picture of what you're drawn to and leans into it.
The design problem I keep returning to is the pass/fail structure. Classic gamebooks mostly operate on that logic. You picked the right path or the wrong one. Meaningful choice, where both branches are interesting and the decision reveals something about you rather than just routing you, is genuinely hard to write. Especially in a serialized format where chapters get produced before you know which branches readers will actually take.
If you want to try it and see whether the branching holds up, I'm looking for readers who'll actually tell me when a choice feels empty. Link in profile. And genuinely curious: does the pass/fail structure bother people here, or is navigating the tree kind of the whole point?
