Creator Guide

A World is the foundation of every story on Yooli World. Whether you're creating a manga, animated series, novel, lore compendium, or collaborative universe, everything begins with a World.

• Click + Create from the sidebar or top navigation to create a new World.
• First, choose a World Type: Creator World — Only the world creator can add new content. Readers can follow the story, but cannot contribute new panels, scenes, chapters, or lore. Community World — Other creators can contribute and build alongside you, creating alternate paths, new lore entries, characters, locations, and story branches.
• Next, choose a Story Medium: Visual Story — Image-based storytelling built panel by panel. Cinematic Story — Video-based storytelling built scene by scene. Novel — Written storytelling built chapter by chapter. Lore World — A world-building hub focused on characters, locations, and history.
• Add a title, description, genres, and cover image. Cover images can be uploaded manually or generated using AI in the Studio.
• Once your World is created, you can begin building immediately by creating your first panel, scene, chapter, or lore entry.
• Every World includes: Storytelling tools, Branching paths, World lore, Characters and locations, Voting and discovery systems, Monetization options.
• Worlds can exist on their own or be connected to a larger Universe, allowing multiple stories to share characters, locations, lore, and canon.

Choose the medium that best fits the story you want to tell.

• Visual Story — Visual Stories are built panel by panel using images. Each panel represents a single moment in the story and can be created with AI, uploaded manually, or contributed by the community. Best for: Manga, Comics, Graphic novels, Illustrated adventures, Character-driven storytelling.
• Cinematic Story — Cinematic Stories are built scene by scene using video. Each scene plays in sequence, creating an animated storytelling experience that feels closer to a film or television series. Best for: Animated series, Short films, Trailers, Music videos, Cinematic world-building.
• Novel — Novel Worlds are built chapter by chapter using written text. Readers progress through chapters while creators and contributors can expand the story through branching paths and alternate continuations. Best for: Traditional novels, Light novels, Journals, Character stories, Long-form storytelling.
• Lore World — Lore Worlds start with lore first. To create a Lore World, you begin by adding at least one character. From there, the world can grow outward as people build stories around that character, setting, or concept. A Lore World can lead into different story formats inside the same world, including: Cinematic stories, Visual stories, Novel-style stories. Best for: Original characters, Character-first worlds, Manga/comic creators with unused characters, Collaborative world-building, Communities that want to build multiple story versions from the same lore.
• All world types support community interaction, discovery, monetization, and can be connected to a larger Universe.

The way content is organized depends on the type of world you create.

• Visual Stories — Visual Stories are built from Panels. Panels are displayed sequentially to tell a story and can branch into alternate paths created by the community.
• Cinematic Stories — Cinematic Stories are built from Scenes. Scenes play in sequence and can branch into alternate story paths, allowing multiple versions of the same story to exist.
• Novel Worlds — Novel Worlds are built from Chapters. Readers progress through chapters while creators and contributors can continue the story through branching paths and alternate continuations.
• Lore Worlds — Lore Worlds begin with Characters and Locations. Once lore has been established, creators and contributors can build Visual Stories, Cinematic Stories, and Novels around that lore, creating multiple stories within the same world.
• No matter which structure you choose, every world supports branching paths, community contributions, voting, and discovery.

The type of content you create depends on your world's medium.

• Panels — Panels are the building blocks of Visual Stories. Each panel represents a single moment in time and is displayed in sequence to tell a story. Panels can be AI-generated, uploaded manually, or contributed by the community.
• Scenes — Scenes are the building blocks of Cinematic Stories. Each scene is a video segment that plays as part of a larger narrative. Scenes can be AI-generated, uploaded manually, or contributed by the community. Scenes can continue the creator's story or branch into alternate community-created paths.
• Chapters — Chapters are the building blocks of Novel Worlds. Each chapter contains written content that advances the story. Chapters can branch into alternate continuations, allowing multiple versions of a story to evolve simultaneously.
• Characters & Locations — Characters and Locations exist across all world types and serve as the foundation of your world's lore. Characters define the people, creatures, factions, and entities that exist within your world. Locations define the places, regions, landmarks, and settings that make up your world. Characters and Locations can be referenced during AI generation to help maintain consistency across panels, scenes, and stories.
• In Lore Worlds, Characters and Locations become the primary focus. A Lore World begins with at least one Character and can then expand into Visual Stories, Cinematic Stories, and Novels built around that lore.
• All content types support branching paths, community interaction, voting, and discovery throughout the platform.

Novel Worlds don't have to remain text-only.

• Creators and contributors can bring written stories to life by adding images and videos to specific moments within a chapter.
• By placing Scene Breaks throughout a chapter, a written story can be divided into individual scenes. Each scene can then be visualized with an image or animated with a video.
• Visualizations and animations can be created by the chapter creator or contributed by the community. They can be: Generated using AI, Uploaded manually as images, or Uploaded manually as videos.
• This allows multiple interpretations of the same scene to exist, giving creators and communities the freedom to bring written stories to life in different ways.
• Example — Chapter 1: Opening paragraphs → Scene Break → Character introduction → Scene Break → Final confrontation. Each Scene Break creates a distinct scene that can have its own artwork, visualizations, and animations.
• This allows readers to experience key moments through text, images, and cinematic video while preserving the original written story.

The Studio is Yooli World's creation workspace.

• Accessible from the sidebar, the Studio allows creators to generate images and videos using AI, upload their own media, and manage their creative workflow.
• When generating content, creators can use: Uploaded reference images, or Previous generations.
• The Studio can be used to create Visual Panels, Cinematic Scenes, Chapter Visualizations, and Chapter Animations.
• Creators can also upload their own artwork, images, and videos directly to the platform.

Paths are the different routes a story can take as creators and communities build on top of existing content.

• Every panel, scene, or chapter can have multiple continuations. Over time, a single story can branch into many different versions, allowing creators and communities to explore alternate outcomes, characters, and storylines.
• Visual, Cinematic, and Novel Worlds — These world types support branching contributions and featured paths.
• Creator's Path — The Creator's Path is the original path created by the world creator. It contains only content created by the creator and represents the story as originally authored.
• Creator's Pick — The Creator's Pick is the creator's curated version of the story. Creators can select their favorite continuation at any branch point, including community-created panels, scenes, or chapters. Because of this, a Creator's Pick may contain both creator-created and community-created content. Selecting a Creator's Pick does not transfer ownership of the content, but it does make that contribution part of the creator's recommended path through the story.
• Community Favorite — The Community Favorite is the path shaped by the community's preferred continuations. As readers vote on individual panels, scenes, and chapters, the most popular continuation at each branch point becomes the Community Favorite. Because voting happens at the content level, Community Favorites can evolve over time as new contributions gain support.
• All Paths — The Explore Paths section displays every available path within a world. Readers can browse alternate storylines, discover community-created branches, and follow completely different versions of the same story.
• Lore Worlds — Lore Worlds use a different path structure. Rather than branching from individual panels, scenes, or chapters, creators build independent paths using the lore, characters, and settings established within the world. Contributors can only build and extend their own paths. They cannot contribute directly to another creator's path. Because of this structure, Lore Worlds do not use Creator Picks or a single Creator Path.
• Instead, Lore Worlds highlight: Community Favorite — The highest-rated path across the entire Lore World. Readers vote on complete paths rather than individual moments, allowing the community to surface the strongest stories built within the shared lore. Creator-Owned Paths — Paths created by the world creator are identified with a creator badge, allowing readers to easily discover the creator's original contributions while still exploring community-created paths.

Community contributions allow creators and readers to build stories together. How contributions work depends on the world type and the contribution settings chosen by the world creator.

• Creator Worlds — Creator Worlds are designed for creators who want full control over their story. Only the world creator can add new panels, scenes, chapters, or paths. Readers can still follow the world, vote on content, comment on content, tip creators, and participate in discussions — but they cannot contribute new story content.
• Community Worlds — Community Worlds allow other creators to contribute and expand the story. Contributors can create new panels, scenes, chapters, visualizations, animations, and paths depending on the world type. All contributions become alternate versions of the story and never overwrite existing content.
• Contribution Access — World creators can control who is allowed to contribute. Everyone: Any user with access to the world can contribute. Subscribers Only: Only users subscribed to the creator can contribute. Invite Only: Only users invited by the world creator can contribute. Creator Only: Only the world creator can contribute. Contribution permissions can be changed at any time from the world settings.
• Visual, Cinematic, and Novel Worlds — Contributors can build from existing panels, scenes, and chapters. Each contribution creates a new branch of the story. Multiple creators can explore different directions from the same moment, allowing many versions of the story to exist simultaneously. World creators can use Creator Picks to highlight their preferred continuation at any branch point. If a creator selects a community-created continuation as a Creator Pick, that contribution becomes part of the Creator's Pick path.
• Lore Worlds — Contributors build their own independent paths using the shared lore, characters, and settings established within the world. Creators cannot contribute directly to another user's path. Each path remains owned and controlled by the creator who built it. This keeps Lore Worlds organized while still allowing many creators to explore the same universe in different ways.
• Ownership — Creators always retain ownership of the content they create. A Creator Pick highlights a contribution but does not transfer ownership of that content to the world creator. All contributions remain attributed to the creator who originally made them.

Readers can vote on panels, scenes, chapters, visualizations, animations, and paths throughout Yooli World.

• In Visual, Cinematic, and Novel Worlds, voting happens at the individual panel, scene, or chapter level. Community Favorites are determined by the community's preferred continuations at each branch point, allowing stories to evolve organically over time.
• In Lore Worlds, voting happens at the path level. Readers vote on complete paths, and the highest-rated path becomes the Community Favorite.
• Voting helps surface the most popular content while preserving every alternate version that creators and communities build together.

Other creators can extend your world by submitting new panels, scenes, or chapters at any branch point.

• Contributors can click Build From Here on any path in the Explore Paths tab to add a continuation.
• Inside the reader, contributors can use Build From This Panel or Build From This Scene to branch directly from the current moment.
• Contributions appear as alternate paths — they never replace your existing story.
• As the world creator, you can set a Creator's Pick at each branch point to highlight your preferred continuation.
• You can lock a world to stop new contributions, or restrict contributions to subscribers only.
• Worlds where others have contributed cannot be deleted — they can be archived or unpublished instead.

Lore is the foundation of every world on Yooli World. Whether you're creating a Visual Story, Cinematic Story, Novel World, or Lore World, lore helps establish the characters, locations, history, and rules that define your universe. Strong lore creates stronger stories and helps contributors maintain consistency as worlds grow.

• Characters — Characters store important information about the people, creatures, and entities that exist within your world. Each character can include: Name, Description, Role, Reference image, and Additional notes and details. Characters can be used as reference material when creating panels, scenes, visualizations, and animations.
• Settings — Settings define the locations, environments, and places that exist within your world. Examples include: Cities, Kingdoms, Space stations, Schools, Forests, and Historical locations. Settings can also include descriptions and reference images to help maintain visual consistency across contributions.
• World Lore vs Universe Lore — Lore can exist at two levels. World Lore: Lore that belongs to a specific world (e.g. a character that only appears in a single story). Universe Lore: Lore shared across multiple worlds within the same Universe (e.g. a recurring character, location, faction, or piece of history that appears across several connected worlds). Universe lore can be reused throughout all worlds connected to that Universe.
• Lore Approval — World creators control what becomes part of their world's official lore. When contributors submit new characters or settings, the submission may require approval. Pending lore remains visible only to the lore creator and the world creator. Approved lore becomes available to readers and contributors. This helps maintain consistency while still allowing community participation.
• Using Lore as Reference Material — Characters and settings can be used as reference material throughout Yooli World. Depending on the creation workflow, creators may be able to use approved characters and settings when generating panels, scenes, visualizations, and animations. Using lore references helps maintain consistency in appearance, locations, and world-building across contributions.
• Lore Worlds — Lore Worlds are dedicated world-building spaces designed to help creators develop and expand their universes. Unlike other world types, Lore Worlds begin with lore first — at least one character must exist before a Lore World can be created. Once established, creators can build Visual Paths, Cinematic Paths, and Novel Paths using the shared lore foundation. This allows multiple stories and interpretations to grow from the same universe while remaining connected through a common set of characters, locations, and world-building.

A Universe links multiple worlds together under one shared canon.

• Create a Universe to connect related worlds — a Visual Story, a Cinematic companion, a Novel, and character spinoffs can all live in the same Universe.
• Readers can discover all worlds in a Universe from any individual world page.
• Universes appear on the Discover page and can be followed independently of individual worlds.
• Example: All Things Unknown (Visual Story), All Things Unknown: The Vorhelion (Cinematic), and All Things Unknown: Captain's Log (Novel) are three separate worlds in the same Universe.

Yooli World gives creators multiple ways to earn revenue from their worlds and communities. Creators control how their content is monetized and can choose to use one or several monetization methods at the same time.

• Tips — Readers can support creators by sending tips directly. Tips can be sent from world pages and creator profile pages. Tips sent from a world page are paid directly to the world creator. Tips sent from a creator profile support that creator's account and overall work on the platform.
• Subscriptions — Creators can offer monthly subscriptions to their audience. Each creator sets their own subscription price and currently supports a single subscription tier. Subscribers can receive access to: Subscriber-only worlds, Subscriber-only contributions, Exclusive creator content, and Future subscriber-exclusive features. Subscriptions renew automatically each month unless cancelled by the subscriber.
• Pay-Per-View (PPV) Worlds — Creators can lock worlds behind a one-time purchase. Readers who purchase a PPV world receive permanent access to that world and its content. PPV access applies to the entire world rather than individual chapters, panels, or scenes. Creators control the purchase price for each PPV world.
• Revenue Split — Yooli World charges a 12% platform fee on all transactions. Creators keep 88% of all revenue generated through Tips, Subscriptions, and PPV purchases. Standard Stripe payment processing fees are deducted separately.
• Community Contributions — Revenue generated by a world is currently paid to the world creator. Community contributors retain ownership and attribution of the content they create, but monetization is tied to the world itself rather than individual panels, scenes, chapters, visualizations, animations, or paths.
• Payouts — All payments are processed through Stripe. Creators must connect a Stripe account before receiving payments. Once connected, earnings are paid directly through Stripe according to Stripe's payout schedule and availability in the creator's region.

Manage monetization settings from the Monetization tab in your Creator Dashboard.