One of the most exciting parts of interactive storytelling is wondering what choices your readers will make.

With Story Thyme 1.8.0, authors can now finally see those choices in action through the brand-new Choice Mode Analytics system.

This new feature allows story creators to track reader decisions during Theater playback and visualize how readers interact with branching stories over time.

📊 Visual Choice Analytics

Choice Mode Analytics introduces visual response graphs directly inside the Story Analytics page.

Authors can now see:

• How many readers selected each option
• Which branches are most popular
• How readers respond to important story decisions
• Total response counts for each choice prompt

Whether you're writing emotional story moments, branching mysteries, romance routes, or alternate endings, you can now better understand how your audience experiences your story.

🧠 Built Specifically for Interactive Stories

Unlike traditional analytics systems, Choice Mode Analytics was designed specifically for branching visual novels and interactive fiction.

The system tracks individual choice modes and preserves analytics data even if you continue editing your story later.

This means your analytics can survive:

• Frame reordering
• Dialogue rewrites
• Choice text changes
• Story updates
• Deleted or replaced choice modes

Historical snapshots are also preserved so authors can continue analyzing older reader responses even after making edits to their stories.

🎭 Better Insights Into Your Readers

Interactive storytelling is all about player agency. Choice Mode Analytics gives creators a new way to understand what readers are thinking and how they emotionally engage with a story.

You may discover that:

• Readers consistently choose one character over another
• A difficult moral choice is far more divided than expected
• Certain routes are rarely explored
• Readers react differently after major story reveals

This opens the door to deeper storytelling insights and future story improvements.

🖼 Improved Choice Preview Rendering

Alongside the analytics system, Story Thyme’s preview generation system has also been upgraded.

Choice buttons and Choice Mode layouts are now properly rendered inside generated frame preview thumbnails, making story previews more visually accurate throughout the editor and Story Map.

🚀 More Improvements Across Story Thyme

Version 1.8.0 also includes a wide range of additional improvements across the platform, including redesigned resource management tools, improved editor responsiveness, centralized ad management systems, dark mode improvements, and upgraded dialogue box validation tools.

Choice Mode Analytics is just the beginning of a larger effort to give Story Thyme authors deeper insights into how readers experience interactive stories.

More creator-focused tools and analytics features are already in development. Thank you for continuing to grow with Story Thyme 💜