Lanternfork
A storyworld where every choice has a price.
Lanternfork is a storyworld for teenagers who want to practise real-life decisions without being lectured. Every choice has a price, consequences unfold over the story, and a rewind lets you go back and see where the other path led.
Teens learn the price of a choice by paying it.
Life-skills content usually reads like a lesson, and teenagers can smell a lesson from a mile away.
A story where choices cost something, and where you can rewind and compare, lets them practise the hard ones safely.
How it works
Step into a scene
A situation from real teenage life, inside a world worth returning to.
Choose
Every option has a cost, and none is labelled as the right one.
Rewind and compare
Go back to the fork and see where the other path would have led.
What makes it different
A story, not a lesson
No mascots, no morals, nothing that reads as “for younger kids”.
Choices cost something
Consequences build across a story instead of resolving in one line.
Reviewed for safety
Scenarios go to a youth counsellor before any teen plays them.
Where it stands
Early research, as of October 2026.
Built
- The decisions record, a recruiting and consent kit, and a first prototype scenario.
Now
- Counsellor review of the first scenario, and lining up the first teen reads.
Next
- World and cast options, and an art style chosen with teens.