First Steps
Once your account is created, you will be able to access the workshop from the site's navigation menu to write a new story.
Creating a Story
After clicking the Create a Story button, you will need to enter a title and a short description of your story. These fields are mandatory, but you can modify them later.
Moiki offers you three editing modes for your stories: simplified mode, normal mode, and expert mode.
In simplified mode, editing features are limited to ensure export in interactive PDF or audio story for Lunii. If you don't want to use these exports, prefer normal mode.
Expert mode offers additional features, but these can be more complicated to handle.
Interface Overview
After confirming the creation of your story, you arrive at this screen :
The editor's interface can be broken down into six parts.
1 Header Bar: Here you find the title of your story and your statistics to know at a glance the number of words and sequences.
2 Main Menu: This menu presents various global features of the editor.
3 Tools Menu: This menu allows selecting the different tools of the editor.
4 Tools Header: This section is used to display specific options for the selected tool. For the “Sequences” tool, it will display the information of the selected sequence.
5 Main Tools Panel: This panel is the workspace linked to the tools.
6 Secondary Tools Panel: This panel displays secondary information related to tools when necessary. Most of the time, it will display the graph of your story.
Functioning
Moiki stories, or moikis, are organized as a sequence of sequences, each sequence being equivalent to a screen in the story reader.
Concretely, you modify your sequences in the main panel (the text, links, etc.) and the graph in the secondary panel is built automatically, allowing you to have an overview of your sequences.
Of course, there is a bit more subtlety, and other tools, but that's the general principle.
If you haven't played any moiki stories until now, this is a good time to see what others have already done with our editor !
In the next chapters, we will see in more detail how the main menu and the different tools work.