Yes, but you’d need to use Sheets. Forms and Slides don’t support it.

Is there a way to allow fill in the blank responses or choices to follow as the story progresses? (e.g. on the first item/page have a text option for “What is your name?”)

Then use the name submitted here in further items (e.g. someone in the story uses the name later in the story).

(1) The classic no-ending story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” has only two possible outcomes, but there are so many reasons why either one could actually happen.

(2) I have been toying with a decision map model for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that would explore all of the cascading consequences of different choices that could have been made by the various characters. The branching is formidable, and I wonder if it could be done without having some background tracking variables to keep track of prerequisites and cumulative effects. Can Google help with this, or would I have to step up to an Interactive Fiction programming language like Inform?

Matt: Thanks for the idea!! Our county conducts “Google Slams” each month where we get 3 minutes to share a “cool tool” or idea for using Google Apps. I would like to share this in April and will definitely promote your blog with your permission. Please let me know. Thanks!

Awesome! Way to go Kirsten!

Thanks a million!

It does. It’s a form. When the reader is finished, he/she reads the end of the story and, after clicking the “submit” button, can view a graph of what endings other readers selected.