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My "Printing Your Story" suggestion is a good one, but I suppose to get to the meat of things, really it would be nice to have a "Download Your Story" link once published, obviously only for the author.

The author could then print, email, sell to Amazon, etc. This is particularly useful for me, and I assume other authors, because while the commendations here are validating (in most cases), when one puts a lot of effort into something, one may want to publish said story.

I realize this is a tiny hurdle for some, as one could write the story first, then cut and paste each page to the site, but it seems like a lot of extra effort. If one could input it into the site, have all the pages linked up using the great code, then save it as a workable title, it would be fabulous.

I'd be willing to chip in and/or fund this idea as long as the programmer doesn't think it's $500/hr type work. I may even know someone who could do this although I'm slightly out of touch with the IT world.

Well, a storygame is just a bunch of rows in a bunch of tables. The editor manipulates this data, and the storyengine turns it into a playable storygame. While the storygame's data is certainly exportable into a data document (CSV, XML, JSON, etc), without the storyengine you can't do much with it.

Oh I don't mean with variables and the like, just the linking from page to page code turning into hyperlinks.

Oh I see, so just HTML? Like, a ZIP File containing a bunch of inter-linking HTML files? Or, a single HTML that shows/hides "pages" with JavaScript or something?

You know, being able to download your story data to a file would still be a good way to save it locally.

You know how in word you can add hyperlinks that will take you to different pages, not just on the web, but within the document itself? Like that.

So even one big word file with links.

Seth goes to the house.

Open the door

Walk to the back of the house (these last two being links)

Clicking on Open the door brings you to "Open the Door" page, which might be PAGEID 40 and "Walk to the back of the house" brings you to PAGEID 41 or "Walk to the back of the house" page.

So each "page" just gets broken up into the word doc, and the links at the bottom of each page just link within that document. No scripts, no variables, no anything but linking between pages. The user can then just alter links or the beginnings of pages, much like Lone Wolf, saying "If you have the rope and the Survival skill, turn to page 47," because he could see that the shiny word doc is linking there and that is what he intended the engine to originally do.