A complete narrative writing unit that runs in a web browser. No app, no login, no subscription, and no internet needed once it is on the device. You unzip the folder, double-click one file, and it opens. Windows, Mac, Chromebook or tablet.
WHAT STUDENTS DO
Students create a cadet, then work through six skill bays, each one drilling a single move of narrative craft: word choice, genre and structure, dialogue and punctuation, character motivation, descriptive writing, and revision. Every bay has three tiers that get harder, each with its own character, task and helper panel. They finish by writing an opening chapter that uses all six.
There are three prompt variants per tier, so a class working at once is not all writing the same answer, and replaying does not repeat the task.
WHAT YOU GET
- The game: one HTML file
- A teacher console: present any task full screen on a projector, generate daily class codes, and look up the curriculum alignment for every lesson
- The Story Structure Lab: a standalone story planning tool, opens on its own
- The Stealth Mission timer: a quiet noise-and-timer display for independent work
- A 17-page teacher guide, a setup guide, and the Story Structure Lab guide
- The artwork and audio the game uses
HOW LONG IT RUNS
Roughly a month taught fully, but it is built to dip into. One bay is a lesson. The Story Structure Lab alone is a planning lesson. Nothing has to be done in order.
HONEST NOTES
There is no answer key, because there is no single right answer to a piece of narrative writing. What is included instead: a learning intention and success criteria for every lesson, self-check lists inside each task, and drills that mark themselves.
There is no teacher dashboard. Student writing stays on the device it was written on, which also means nothing is uploaded and no student data is collected. Students copy their writing out or you read over their shoulder, the same as a paper task. Progress saves in the browser, and a save code carries a student to another machine.
STANDARDS
Every lesson is mapped against five frameworks with codes quoted from each curriculum's own documents: Australian Curriculum v9, US Common Core, Cambridge Lower Secondary English, IB MYP Language & Literature, and UK National Curriculum KS3. Where a mapping is a close fit rather than an exact one, the resource says so.
