Once we had teams divvied up (the other was SitStay), we quickly converged on the idea of using flow charts to write choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA) stories. We researched prior art to make sure that a flowchart tool was unique enough to be worth working on, and ended up finding many similar tools:



However, none of these tools hit the mix of ease-of-use and power that we had in mind, so we proceeded to plan our own. We started by whiteboarding some sample story scenarios and identifying the elements and relationships we'd need to represent both graphically and in our database.