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Define your premise, audience, and format first, then build choices around materially different intentions, costs, or consequences. Each branch needs an entry condition, player choice, state change, later consequence, and a reachable ending.

Use variables and flags to record facts the later story must remember, such as relationships, knowledge, items, and promises. Define who sets each flag, what it means, and which nodes consume it, keeping the set small enough to inspect.

A good choice changes knowledge, relationships, access, risk, resources, or route. Choices that differ only in wording and collapse to the same result without visible consequence should be avoided.

Yes, branches may reconverge when prior choices still affect dialogue, available actions, or consequences. Every ending must have a traceable route with explicit conditions, and unreachable endings hidden behind contradictory flags must be avoided.

Maintain character voice and known state across all nodes so later scenes never forget facts, injuries, items, relationships, or prior choices. Storyboards and image prompts must also preserve character, location, prop, era, and lighting continuity.