How it works
1Gather your storytellers
Add your child and anyone else who wants to play — a sibling, a grandparent, you. Two or more people, plus Thade.
2Thade sets the scene
Your AI storyteller greets everyone by name, introduces the Imagination Box, and kicks the story off.
Thade
Hello My Child, Dad, and Mom — I'm so excited to make a story with you. Whatever you dream up will appear in the Imagination Box.
3Take turns, out loud
Each person adds to the story out loud — a sentence or a scene — then passes to the next, and Thade weaves in a twist. There's no script: it grows turn by turn until you bring it home.
Your child
Once there was a dragon made of starlight.
Thade
It curled around the tallest tower and blinked its silver eyes.
You
A tiny mouse waved up from the garden below.
Your child
So the dragon swooped down to say hello!
Thade
The mouse climbed onto its warm, scaly nose.
You
Together they flew up past the sleepy moon.
Your child
They found a cloud shaped like a giant cupcake!
4Watch it come alive
As you speak, the Imagination Box paints the story on screen in real time — every character and place you dream up, visualized.
Ready to imagine?
Who's at the table
Two or more people, plus an AI who plays along.
Your child
Takes a turn out loud, adding whatever they imagine. Thade keeps the story open-ended, so there's always room for their next idea.
You & your family
Anyone can join — a parent, a sibling, a visiting grandparent. Everyone's a storyteller, taking turns around the circle.
Thade, the AI
A storyteller, not a narrator — after each round Thade builds on what everyone said and continues the plot, never wrapping it up too soon.
Why it's worth doing together
Imagination, out loud
Speaking a story into being — and seeing it appear — stretches creativity in a way a finished book can't.
Turn-taking and teamwork
The round-robin circle is a natural lesson in listening, patience, and building on someone else's idea.
Truly shared family time
Everyone's a co-author. It's a story your family makes together — and can play back later.
Frequently asked questions
- How does round-robin storytelling work?
- Two or more people and an AI storyteller named Thade take turns adding to one shared story out loud. After every full round of human turns, Thade continues the plot — and it all visualizes in the Imagination Box.
- What is the Imagination Box?
- It's the canvas on screen that turns your spoken story into pictures in real time. As you describe a character or place, the Imagination Box illustrates it, sentence by sentence.
- Do we type or speak?
- You speak. Round-robin is voice-based — everyone tells their part aloud, and Thade narrates its turns aloud too.
- Who can play?
- Anyone — your child plus a parent, sibling, or grandparent. You need at least two storytellers, and Thade plays along as one more.