TaleShake
working title
TaleShake
Every story begins with a spark.
TaleShake
Shake the reels. Twist the tale!
TaleShake is the working title until the name clears — TaleTangle is still in the running.
📖 Continue your tale
Storytellers
Pass-and-play on one device. 1 to 8 players, each with a story buddy you can name.
Game mode
Casual: a missed turn just passes along. Good for families and classrooms.
Turn timer
Timer starts after the reels land. Submit early whenever you're ready.
Solo story goal
Solo mode only (one storyteller): you and the Storyweaver, an AI partner, take turns building one tale. Finish the goal to earn story points (placeholder numbers). Solo play is untimed, at your own pace.
Reel pictures
Little storytellers love a picture on every reel; older tables may like them sprinkled in as surprises, or words only. Remembered on this device.
Sound
Music needs one tap on the 🎵 button up top to start (phones require it). Sound effects arrive with a future asset drop.
Shake-Ups — word packs
❓ How a turn works — tap to read
- Tap SHAKE! — five reels land on five words, one from each category: Character, Place, Object, Action, and Twist.
- Read the story so far, then write 1 to 5 sentences that continue the same shared story.
- Your sentences must use all five words. Five sentences is a ceiling, not a target.
- Submit and pass the device to the next storyteller.
- Think a turn doesn't really continue the tale? Any other storyteller can Challenge! it before the next turn starts. The table votes, and a tie favors the storyteller.
The app checks the five words and counts sentences. Whether a turn truly continues the story is still the table's call — talk it out like humans.
Adopt your first companion
Decorating Den — prototype
The cottage room with our first real furniture piece: the Moonlit Dream Bed. Drag it anywhere, turn it, resize it. Signed-in storytellers' rooms save to their account; guests keep theirs on this device.
Keyboard works too: focus the bed, move with the arrow keys, rotate with R.
Your Companions
Every buddy so far. Outfits and cottage decor arrive with the shop.
Sign in on the welcome screen to adopt a companion that stays yours between visits.
Pet Lab — 3D test
Dreamleema, fresh out of Meshy — an early test of the 3D pet companion idea. Drag to spin her around!
The cottage, seen from the village lane — its room is up in the Decorating Den now.
✨ For sale now
Story Sparks are earned by playing: +10 for each valid solo turn, and +50 / +125 / +350 for finishing a 10 / 20 / 50-round tale. Your first companion is always free.
The TaleShake Boutique
The shop opens in a future chapter: themed Shake-Up word packs, and pet outfits, hats and cottage decor bought with earned story points — never real money for points.
Pass the device
Last turn
The app only checks words and sentences. Whether a turn truly continues the tale is the table's call.
The story so far
Challenge!
Pass the device to the named voter. Everyone except the author votes once. A tie lets the tale stand.
The Storyweaver's five words
The Storyweaver writes through TaleShake's own server for signed-in storytellers (or through Claude in the hosted version); a plain offline copy can't call an AI. It must contribute before your next turn, and solo stories save to your account as you play.
The story so far
Five reels · Five words · One tale!
Oooh! Shake the reels and let's see what we get!
The story so far
The End
