The AI beat
Where the form
goes next
Sixty years of interactive film pre-shot every branch — nine scenes for Kinoautomat, 472 minutes for Revenge on Gold Diggers. Generative models break that constraint, and stories stop being finite. We cover this beat the way we cover everything: honestly, across every tool and studio, because the authority is only worth something if the beat is real.
01
Tools for branching writers
What AI writing assistants actually do for choice-driven scripts: branch management, consistency across routes, dialogue variation at scale. Briefings, not hype.
02
Generative video meets FMV
Every era of interactive film pre-shot its branches. Rendered footage removes that ceiling — we track the studios and tools experimenting at the edge, and what actually survives contact with an audience.
03
Practitioner interviews
Writers, directors and producers across the interactive-film and short-drama worlds on how AI is changing (and not changing) their pipelines.
04
The annual state of the form
Once a year, a full report: what shipped, what worked, what was noise. Anchored on the AltNext summit calendar.
Context
The last chapter of our history of the form is being written now. The wave that carried FMV back — covered in our feature on the Chinese wave — was built on an industrial production machine. AI is about to hand that machine an unlimited film stock. First briefings land here soon.