Category: Linear · Audience: Beginner (no HTML/CSS/JS experience needed)

What this shows

The baseline every other structure departs from: every player experiences the same sequence of events in the same order. The only “choice” is pacing — when to proceed — not content.

How it works

• Each passage ends with a single [[Continue->Next]] link, so there is exactly one path from Start to the ending.
• There are no conditionals and no state. Linearity is simply a chain of passages with one exit each.
• This is not a failure state: linear structure protects pacing and authored dramatic shape completely. It is the right choice when meaning depends on exact sequencing.

Using this in your own story

1. Give each beat its own passage.
2. Link each passage to exactly one next passage.
3. Reach for a linear spine whenever the order of events is the point.

Full source

:: StoryData
{
	"ifid":"9B031864-42CC-4023-84F1-CFA1BD81EADF"
}

:: StoryTitle
Linear Structure

:: Start
The train pulls out of the station. There is one track, and one way this journey ends.

[[Continue->Morning]]

:: Morning
Fields blur past the window. You read, you doze, you wait.

[[Continue->Afternoon]]

:: Afternoon
The conductor calls the next stop. Yours.

[[Continue->Arrival]]

:: Arrival
You step onto the platform. The journey was always going to bring you here — and that is the point.

**The End**

[[Ride again->Start]]

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