✍️ Writing your first scenario
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🔤 Story-writing worksheet
If you've defined the use case of your scenario and you're wondering what's next, writing the scenario story outline would be a good place to start. Writing compelling VR training requires a solid understanding of story structure. One of the most well-known and widely used story structures is the 3-Act structure, applied to screenwriting, novels, and any other type of storytelling, including VR training. It provides a clear and concise framework to build a story around and ensures that the story has a beginning, middle, and end.
This structure contains different 'ingredients' within the acts, such as: the main story elements, understanding the power of giving feedback and introducing obstacles/conflicts that lead to good or bad consequences. These ingredients are what makes the most engaging and knowledge retention VR training.
Warp VR's team has created a story-writing worksheet for your creators team. The worksheet includes guidance on how to brainstorm and conclude all structure ingredients relevant to your use case. By the end of the worksheet, your scenario story outline will be finalised and ready to be transferred in Warp Studio.
👉 The 3-Act structure and story-writing worksheet are Warp VR's expert advise on how to create an engaging and knowledge retention scenario. However, it's not a mistake to use a different method you may prefer in order to create/outline your scenario and its story. Please feel free to share your approach with us as well.
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The story outline created with the worksheet is the spine of the story. If you've defined the main characters, their personality, goal and arriving from A to B to C within the worksheet, now it's time to add all the 'spices' to the outline by describing character's emotions, the lines they say, the environment they're surrounded by and HOW they get from A to B to C.
To do so, continue by navigating to the Scenarios page in Warp Studio.
- Create a new scenario slot
- Give your scenario a title, description, and a cover photo. You can revisit and tweak these details at any time.
- Start building your story outline in the flow editor by adding scenes.
Each scene is a building block of your scenario, and contains description and interactive elements. The description field should be used to describe the environment in which you'll be filming, as well as the atmosphere of the situation, which characters are included, their emotions and their script.
Use interactive elements in scenes, which can range from multiple-choice questions to interactive hotspots. Some elements are cues to start the next scene; others open an information panel in your scene.
By connecting scenes together, you make your scenario. You may use as many scenes as you want, but to give you some guidelines, we see scenarios ranging between 25 and 60 scenes on average.
Your scenario can be linear (usually for tours, onboarding or procedure trainings) or non-linear (branched out; for portraying soft-skills, security and safety real-life situations). The example above is a non-linear scenario, meaning it offers multiple choices, consequences and possible outcomes within one training.
Updated on: 07/08/2025
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