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Arafat Bin Sultan / Last Updated January 3, 2023

Make a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Form with Google Forms (+ More!)

Want to make a Google Forms choose your own adventure story? Here’s how to make a smart form using Google Forms - and another form builder too!

Choose your own adventure Google Forms

Want to create a choose your own adventure with Google Forms? We’ll show you the way! Also, if you are a WordPress user, we’ve got another solution that might be even better.

Google Forms is a great free form builder for personal use. In this post, we’ll show you how to make a form that features a choose your own adventure story. With Google Forms, this is pretty easy!

After that, we’ll show you another method using a WordPress form builder. If you aren’t using WordPress, feel free to skip it. But if you are using WordPress, this method will be much more powerful.

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Google Forms how-to: Choose your own adventure

You can create a go-to section based on answer experience in several ways. To build a basic interactive story, you can use a free Google tool.

Don’t worry, you don’t need to maintain a huge spreadsheet, rich Google Docs, or complex Google Slides for this.

Simply, create a new blank form using Google Forms. Then add your multiple-choice questions following some intro text. Choose "Go to section based on answer" from the 3-dot button at the bottom right corner.

Now, beside each question, you will see a dropdown to choose the destination section. Add as many sections and questions as you need. Then link them to each other. That’s it!

Google Forms is great for making choose your own adventure forms. But it does have its shortcomings:

  • Less customization: All Google Forms look similar and lack a variety of features.
  • Not truly interactive: Users need to click “Next” to move to the next section.
  • Data storage: Your data will be stored in the cloud, not on your website.
  • Limitations: For example, file uploads are affected by the form owner's Google Drive storage, among other limitations.

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Creating a choose your own adventure story with WordPress

When you have a WordPress website, it’s easy to create a choose your own adventure experience. We will see this using Formidable Forms, the best WordPress form builder plugin. You can create interactive smart forms, adventure books, conversational forms, and much more with it.

Let’s check out the process step by step.

Step 1: Get Formidable Forms

First, we need to get the Formidable Forms plugin. If you’ve installed a plugin in WordPress before, this should be easy!

To unlock all the features needed for a choose your own adventure form, you’ll need the Basic plan, which starts at just $99 a year.

Step 2: Create a form with Formidable Forms

Login to the WordPress admin panel and go to Dashboard → Formidable. Click the Add New Form button to get started.

The form building interface looks like this.

Formidable Forms editor blank

Step 3: Add form fields and enter the story content

We’ll use the Radio Buttons field to build our conversational form (pick a path story). Adding a field is just a matter of a click or a simple drag and drop.

The Radio Buttons field added to a Formidable form

If we click any particular form field on the right, we’ll get the field settings interface in the left sidebar.

Formidable Forms Radio Buttons field options

For this tutorial, we'll use the following story. It’s simple and short to make the process easily scannable.

Scene 1:

You are in a room with a door, a window, and a rabbit hole. Which one do you want to go through?

  1. The door
  2. The window
  3. The rabbit hole

[The user will choose an option in scene 1. Then scene 2 will arrive with more potential options. Thus, the story will go on.]

We’ve added the story and the initial options to the form.

Scene 1 added to the form

There are 3 options in the Radio Buttons field. Once the user selects an option, the subsequent content will appear.

Scene 2 consists of the following:

  • If the first option is selected, this is next: “Awesome! Have a great outing :)”
  • If the second option is selected, this is next: “Oops! Are you sure you can go through the window?”
  • If the third option is selected, this is next: “You must be funny! You’ve chosen the wrong exit, you know!”
Scene 1 and Scene 2 options added to the form

We’ve added the subsequent responses for our three initial options (A, B, C). Now we will add conditional logic to these 3 new form fields. This will make them appear based on which initial option is selected.

Step 4: Adding Conditional Logic to the story fields

We will add conditional logic to the fields with the following titles:

  • Awesome! Have a great outing 🙂
  • Oops! Are you sure you can go through the window?
  • You must be funny! You’ve chosen the wrong exit, you know!

Let’s start with the “Awesome! Have a great outing :)” field. Click on it and go to the field options.

Conditional logic system

In the above screenshot, you can see, we’ve opened the field options for the “Awesome…” form field. Now, look at the left side. At the bottom left corner, there’s the Conditional Logic section.

Learn More: The Ultimate Conditional Logic WordPress Plugin

For this field, in this particular tutorial, we will choose “Show this field if any of the following match: “You are in a room…..” equals “A. The door”.

Check out the following screenshot.

Conditional logic added to a form field

We’ve set our conditional logic targeting the very first radio button. So, if the first radio button option is pressed, the “Awesome! Have a great outing :)” field will appear. By following this method, you can add more fields and conditions easily.

After updating the form, we can see a preview using the top right option. Here is an animated preview of our interactive story we’ve just built.

Animated preview of our interactive story

It’s working!

Step 5: Publish the story and check out more configurations

You can easily publish your interactive story built using Formidable Forms on a post or page. The easiest way to do this is by copying the shortcode of your form into any page or post. There are other ways too! Learn more here: publishing a form. Also, you might want to learn more about the form settings to configure your forms.

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Wrapping up

A conditional logic form powered by Formidable Forms is so innovative. You can use it to create an interactive story. Also, build a smart experience for any survey, bank form, game, etc. Plus, you’ll find it useful while teaching complex topics like math and arranging a quiz for students.

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Comments

  1. ANDRES HERNANDEZ says

    November 10, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    Thank you so much!! I haven't decided yet to create a wordpress blog, but now I think I have a choice.

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 10, 2020 at 10:02 pm

      Hi Andres,
      Glad that you're considering WordPress as a choice! Hopefully, it's going to be a great experience. Also, you'll enjoy creating smart forms and interactive stories for your audience using Formidable Forms. Best wishes on your blog!

      Have a great day!

      Reply
  2. Nirmal Kumar says

    November 11, 2020 at 5:12 am

    Thanks for coming up with this detailed tutorial. It is true Google Forms is limited when it comes to features and customizations. And Formidable Forms is definitely a better alternative for Google Forms.

    Have a nice day guys!

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 11, 2020 at 6:10 am

      Hi Nirmal,
      Thank you so much for your inspiring comment. It means a lot to us! Formidable Forms has a growing number of features that have many other uses. Please stay tuned to get more such helpful posts.

      Stay safe and have a great time! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Susan Biddle says

    November 11, 2020 at 7:54 am

    This sounds like so much fun! With two kiddos doing virtual school and taking online courses myself, it sounds like formidable forms would help us out in a lot of ways. I'm definitely going to look into it more.

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 11, 2020 at 8:22 am

      Hi Susan,
      Absolutely, it's so much fun! Using Conditional Logic and other Formidable Forms features, you can easily create an engaging & interactive experience. Please feel free to contact us with any queries while playing with the plugin.

      Thank you 🙂

      Reply
  4. Susan Biddle says

    November 11, 2020 at 7:55 am

    My kids would love to read a choose your own adventure story by me! Thanks.

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 11, 2020 at 8:41 am

      Definitely, Susan! 'Choose your own adventure' stories have a unique attraction. Even Netflix has a 'Choose your own adventure' movie called 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'. That movie has 5 different 'main' endings based on the viewers' selected storylines.

      All the best for your 'Choose your own adventure' story. I'm sure your kids are going to love that! 👌

      Reply
  5. Detiz says

    November 11, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    This is a very informative article, thank you for sharing! Now I just need to figure out the story 🙂

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 12, 2020 at 6:15 am

      Welcome, Detiz! Best wishes with your interactive story 🙂

      Reply
  6. Aditya Agarwal says

    November 11, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Thank You so Much for this amazing post

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 12, 2020 at 6:17 am

      You're welcome, Aditya!

      Reply
  7. Aditya Agarwal says

    November 15, 2020 at 12:59 pm

    Awesome Post... Thanks

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 18, 2020 at 12:34 am

      Always welcome!

      Reply
  8. Aditya says

    November 22, 2020 at 9:18 am

    Thank u

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

      Welcome!

      Reply
  9. Tammy says

    November 24, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    I can see so many client applications for this scenario. From do you need this product or this one ( for my manufacturer) to my health care providers using if-then charts to get a better feel for their patients issues. Thanks for this example. I didn't know this was possible in WordPress.

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

      Exactly, Tammy! The potential is limitless. Thanks for your comment 🙂

      Reply
  10. Michelle David says

    November 29, 2020 at 4:32 am

    I had never heard of formidable forms before, and didn’t know about this cool “create your own adventure story” in google too.... I will definitely be trying this out! Thanks for the great info!!

    Reply
    • Arafat Bin Sultan says

      November 29, 2020 at 7:51 am

      Hi Michelle,
      Glad to know that you've found this post informative and interesting. Using Formidable Forms, you can easily create a 'Choose your own adventure' experience. Please feel free to contact us with any queries while using the plugin.

      Thank you 🙂

      Reply

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