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Interactive Storytelling for the Web: Building Immersive Stories with Timelines, 3D, and Layered Scenes | Codrops

Codrops·Bjørn Fjellstad·about 1 month ago
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I’ve always been fascinated by websites that feel like small worlds you can explore. Back in 2018, I started a side project called Daily CSS Design , where I built a small visual experiment in code every day. Some were tiny animations. Others became interactive scenes. The goal was simple: to see how much atmosphere and storytelling I could create with just a few visual elements. That project taught me something important. The experiments people remembered were rarely the most complex ones. They were the ones that hinted at a story — the ones that created a sense of place, curiosity, or discovery. At the same time, I kept running into the same problem: building these kinds of experiences often meant stitching together a lot of custom code, animation logic, and layout experiments. It was exciting, but it also made this kind of storytelling feel harder to build than it should be.…

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