When we started mapping out our interactive story we were using a whiteboard, but quickly ran out of room. So we turned to our old friend, Google Docs (we actually tried Google Sheets and found it not very helpful). We looked up some different mind-mapping style software and couldn't find anything that was simple, free, and/or cheap.

We color coded it. Blue meant choice, white was story text, lavender was separating sections, red meant fail/death. This worked out ok for our needs but was definitely not a long term, feasible solution for any future, larger projects. Anyone out there make one of these before and use the end all be all of choose your own adventure planning software?

Then we managed to plug the whole thing into our Google Form to complete our unholy Googley abomination. We thought about using game maker or another development environment, but what would the fun in that be?

If you feel like seeing how this worked out, its over here

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/aberth-simple-text-based-choose-your-own-adventure