User:Mathiaslylo/Fablelane

Fablelane is a crowdsourcing-based website founded in March 2013. The website allows individuals to create their own short-stories and let others decide how the story ends through their contributions to the individual story. It is designed to bring gamification to reading and writing in order to improve motiviation among students.

Fablelane is tightly integrated with Facebook, but can be used anonymously as well. Fablelane claims that they will never post any content on your Facebook profile unless it is very clear, or unless they have asked you first.

Features
On the Fablelane website, users can start their own stories, or join in on existing stories and contribute there. The overall experience was heavily inspired by the Stack Exchange Network according to the team.

When a user reads a community-created story on Fablelane, the user is constantly given choices for what happens next. These choices are made by the community, and let the reader change the direction of the story.

The site features an experience bar that displays the users' progression to the next level. Experience is earned by contributing to existing stories, by branching outcomes for existing stories, or by creating new stories. Additional experience can be gained by inviting friends to join in on the site. Every user has a profile that expands based on the experience of the user. Users with higher experience points unlock more priviledges such as correcting other people's contributions and more.

An activity bar shows every users activity on the website. This activity includes notifications whenever friends interact with stories, or whenever something remarkable is happening with other users.

Fablelane adapts to the size of the display. This means that it can be viewed from a web browser from a smartphone or from a tablet, as well as a computer.

Importing existing stories
Other than allowing users to create their own stories, existing stories and books from third party websites are occasionally being chunked up in smaller contributions and imported to Fablelane's story database. The sources that stories are imported from is shown in a list below.


 * Shortbread stories
 * Example: The Settler on Fablelane