The Book of Magical Tales

Księga Magicznych Opowieści

An interactive storybook for a parent and child to read together, styled as an old book open on a candlelit table. The child makes choices along the way, and the tale remembers them.

Read it: https://artskw.github.io/the-book-of-magical-tales/

Reading together

The book is made for short sessions with a parent, not for a child alone with a screen. The choices are a reason to stop and talk.

• Each tale is built around a value, such as kindness, patience or care for animals. It teaches through the story, not through instructions.
• The world is medieval fantasy, nonviolent by design. Problems are solved by listening, care and working together.
• Short "Did you know...?" notes connect the story to the real world.
• Polish and English. The Polish text is written first and the English adapted from it, so neither reads like a translation.

How it's made

A Three.js scene on Vite, no framework: the book lies open on a candle-lit desk, its pages turn, and a ribbon opens each tale.

• Tales are data, written to a shared template. npm run validate:stories checks each one: page counts, choice pages, endings, what fits on a page, and that every picture the book shows exists.
• Every page is typeset at runtime in EB Garamond (self-hosted) over painted parchment, with its own illustration; switching language rewrites the page in ink instead of swapping it.
• Sound is a small Web Audio engine; files load per tale, only with sound on.
• The chosen language and sound setting stay in the browser.

npm install
npm run dev        # http://127.0.0.1:5173/the-book-of-magical-tales/
npm run build      # dist/, deployed to GitHub Pages from main

index.html and src/book/ are the book; stories.js and locales.js hold the tales' text; public/ its pictures, textures, models and sounds. The art and sound pipelines live in prototypes/ and scripts/sfx/ and never ship.

Two tales so far. New ones follow docs/TALE_TEMPLATE.md.