User-generated stories are a huge hit with Pocket Gems’ Episode

People love reading and writing their own stories. And Pocket Gems has figured out how to make that happen in a big way on mobile devices with the interactive stories of Episode.

Cass Phillips
Cass Phillips

Pocket Gems released its Episode platform for telling interactive stories in February. It made it easy for people to write their own romance novels or comic books, one chapter at a time, with pretty art and an episodic format. Now the San Francisco company is revealing that more than a million consumers have signed up to become authors of Episode stories.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.