Interactive adaptive media. Plan, playtest and publish interactive and immersive stories with no coding
30/12/2025
🎙️ Season 2 of the Story Islands podcast is on the horizon.
Here’s a sneak peek at the brilliant conversations to come — led by our co-founder & CEO, Kate Dimbleby.
Stories landing in the New Year.
Keep posted 👀
23/12/2025
As 2025 comes to a close, we want to wish you a very merry festive season and a happy New Year.
At Stornaway, we'll be giving our team a well-deserved rest over the holidays. However, we'll still be on hand to help.
Between 24th December and 5th January, you will still be able to email [email protected] during UK office hours, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. However, we will only be available for pre-scheduled calls.
All that remains is to say a huge thank you to all our creators. Here's to a restful break filled with festive films and fun.
From all of us at Stornaway.io ✨
19/12/2025
Exploring the possibilities of Extended Reality (XR)
Stornaway creator Noura Zaher drew new audiences in to her MSc thesis exploring the narrative possibilities of Extended Reality (XR) to enhance learning through storytelling.
🎨 Today’s the day - it’s our last Stornaway School of the year!
This afternoon, we’re diving into the magic of Story Maps - including the hidden structure behind 10 interactive projects we love and practical tips to make your own maps clearer and more creative.
Stornaway inventor, Ru Howe, and Head of Operations, Abbie Horning, will be live to guide you and answer all your questions.
Create smart, guided experiences using videos, images, 360 and more.
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11/12/2025
🎨 Our next Stornaway School is less than one week away. And this time, it’s all about the magic of Story Maps.
We’ll be exploring how maps shape your audience’s journey - plus revealing the secrets behind 10 interactive projects we love and how their creators built such brilliant maps.
Ru Howe and Abbie Horning from the Stornaway team will show you how to design clearer, smarter story structures that stay true to your story, your audience and your creative goals.
And, as always, they’ll be ready to answer any and all of your Stornaway questions.
🎓Interactive storytelling is redefining how students learn, create, and communicate.
As Laura Cossu says: “Stornaway has been the perfect tool to connect education, creativity, and narrative design.”
Stornaway makes it easy for students to explore interactive storytelling, game design, filmmaking, and narrative innovation - all without needing to code.
Stornaway Selects: The Spirit Within by Bear House Media for Clifton College
A new and engaging way to do a virtual campus tour! Explore Clifton College in a completely new way, uncovering different stories, locations and experiences.
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We are so happy to announce that from today, Stornaway is publicly available!
This means writers and producers everywhere can use our game-changing design to plan, produce and publish interactive films, easily and affordably, without coding.
You can find out more at our website - stornaway.io - where you can sign up now for a free trial and be one of the first to see why Stornaway is going to become a core writing and production tool for this non-linear world.
Stornaway removes the blockers that stand in the way of creative producers meeting the growing demand for interactive stories. What once cost tens of thousands to make, now costs only $50/user/month. Stornaway does everything:
✓ Plan, produce and publish
✓ Map out stories visually
✓ Play them immediately
✓ Write interactive scripts
✓ Add game logic to choices
✓ Collaborate securely
✓ Publish to our player
✓ Embed for web or mobile
✓ Export for other VOD platforms
Stornaway is already being used around the world to create some beautiful, funny, intriguing stories for major streaming platforms.
Thank you to all of you who have already helped get Stornaway to this point. Now we've set her off on her journey, we can't wait to see where she travels.
We would be so grateful if you could help spread the word and forward this email to writers, producers, commissioners and anyone else you think might be interested.