Overview:

Pocketline is a template for creating interactive stories told through a smartphone. Build a narrative that unfolds across messages, group chats, social posts, photos and other phone apps, then let readers explore it on a working virtual phone.

Write scenes in a straightforward text script and shape the story with choices, variables and conditions. Readers can follow conversations, discover new contacts and unlock content as the story progresses, with save and load support to pick up where they left off.

Features:

Smartphone interface with a setup wizard, lock screen, notifications, home screen, story clock and photo viewer.
Create one-to-one and group conversations, with unknown contacts revealed as the story unfolds.
Add realistic typing delays, emoji, stickers and photos to messages.
Offer two to four choices, including silent and conditional options, with fast-forward, pause and conversation history.
Build a social feed with story-driven posts, likes, comments and profile pages.
Unlock gallery images, show locked-image placeholders and track collection progress.
Include Notes, Achievements and Settings, with themes, wallpapers, text speed, sound, vibration and four save slots.
Create additional phone apps using the included app framework and Weather app example.
Present the phone in framed, frameless or edge-to-edge layouts, including 9:19.5 and 9:16 screen formats.
Write plain-text .plstory scripts for dialogue, choices and story commands.
Use variables, conditions, text interpolation and checks for visited, revealed, unlocked and liked content.
Extend story logic with 19 built-in commands or custom commands; optional Ink support lets you run an inkle ink story.
Use the Story Editor’s branch graph, scene list, problem list, line numbers and suggestions, or play from any scene with preset variables.
Validate scripts on save for broken links, unknown characters, missing images or commands, unset variables, unreachable scenes and missing emoji.
Save and load the whole phone with autosave and three additional save slots; wait-for-reader behavior helps ensure messages are not missed.
Customize the phone’s appearance with four themes and asset-based recoloring; includes UI sprites, icons, emoji, stickers, wallpapers and sound effects.
Includes the demo story New Number, featuring four characters, five avatars, 17 photos and two endings.
Built with uGUI and TextMeshPro, with separate runtime, editor and demo assemblies; the story core is plain C# and unit-tested.
Supports the Input System package or legacy Input Manager, with mouse, touch, keyboard shortcuts and gamepad controls.
Includes one demo scene, eight prefabs and a PDF guide; supports Fast Enter Play Mode with domain reload disabled.