Stories that move as you scroll

What the stories are built from

Eighteen building blocks, ready to become WordPress blocks

1. The guideOne object that travels the whole story and lands on things: Ana’s phone, the plane over Madre de Dios.
2. Sticky scenesAn illustration holds still while the text scrolls over it, and the camera moves to what each line is about.
3. The route mapA route that draws itself as you scroll, with a distance bar and stops that light up.
4. The fly-overOne long picture scrolls under the guide, with a zone bar, like the Reuters Kill Zone flight.
5. Close-up circlesZoomed-in details that pop out of the landscape as you pass them.
6. The cut-awayA building or a tree opened up, with rings that point at what matters.
7. CountersNumbers that add up as you read: in The Offer, a debt that can never be paid off.
8. Spot the signsNumbered markers on a scene, one sign per step, so readers learn what to look for.
9. The loopA diagram a dot travels around, step by step: from forest to bottle and back.
10. The year counterA date that counts up as the story moves through time, over a real map.
11. One square, one personA unit chart that colors itself in, group by group, as you read.
12. Then and nowTwo pictures of the same place; scrolling wipes from one year to the other.
13. The threadA line that draws itself down the page, linking the eras of a long history.
14. The paper trailThings that pile up as you read: here, a century of laws and treaties.
15. The panoramaOne wide picture that pans sideways as you scroll down: a river walked upstream.
16. The glossaryA dictionary page that turns with each card, one word at a time.
17. The highlighterA quote whose key phrases are marked as you read them.
18. The chain reactionDominoes that fall one by one, and the block that stops them.