Authors

Laksh Gandikota

Founder and President, Treezy Technologies Inc.

Laksh founded Treezy and is the sole hands-on engineer and architect of Treezy Play, after fifteen years building consumer mobile applications, including the Walgreens app as Technical Architect. He is a Principal at Slalom Consulting.

Articles by Laksh Gandikota

Technology

Never Stall: A Conversational Call Engine for Filmed Branching Narrative

A filmed character calls you and the story branches on what you say out loud. An engineering report on the route-or-clarify call engine behind it.

Laksh GandikotaOctober 1

Features

Treezy Play 1.9: She Calls You

Treezy Play 1.9 is live on iOS and Android. The app has a new name, the App Store page now opens on the incoming call, and the handoff from kiosk to film lands on the beat over any connection.

Laksh GandikotaSeptember 28

Treezy Play running on an Android phone, with Dr. Tiffany Belle calling mid-story

Features

Treezy Play Is Now on Android

Treezy Play is live on Google Play. The same interactive films, the same spoken phone calls, and one account that carries your progress between phones.

Laksh GandikotaAugust 26

A hand holding an iPhone on a sunlit path, the screen showing a map and two choice buttons, captioned Choose Your Path

Features

Choose Your Own Adventure Games on iPhone: Real Choices vs. Gem Traps

Search the App Store for a choose your own adventure app and you'll find almost nothing by that name. Here's why, and which iPhone games make choices count.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 16

A phone held in the dark, mid-scene, a choice prompt glowing over a live-action film

Features

The Best Interactive Movie Games: 13 That Actually Let You Steer

Most interactive movie games fake your agency. Thirteen that don't: Late Shift, Immortality, The Quarry, She Sees Red, and one you play by talking out loud.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 16

A phone in a dark room showing an incoming call from Dr. Tiffany Belle, the cinematic end of the interactive story app category

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The Best Interactive Story Apps, Sorted by What You Want

Read, watch, or make: three different categories wear this one name. An honest guide to Episode, Choices, Twine, FMV, and which lane you actually want.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 16

A phone held in the dark, screen lit, mid-story

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The Best Story-Driven Mobile Games (And Which Ones Are Actually on Android)

An opinionated guide to story games worth your phone battery: what each asks of you, which are on Android, and one that isn't a game at all.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 16

Features

Treezy Play 1.6: Now the Cast Really Talks Back

Treezy Play 1.6 is live on iOS: answer a FaceTime call out loud and the story follows your lead, plus stylable captions and cinematic opening titles.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 16

Film strips branching like tree limbs, the visual language of interactive film on Treezy Play

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Introducing Treezy Studio: Make Your Own Interactive Film with AI

Treezy Studio turns a one-line idea into a branching, playable interactive movie: AI-generated script, video, voice, and music, published to Treezy Play.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 7

Three screens from the redesigned Treezy Play app, the onboarding reel, the Now Showing home screen, and an incoming call from Dr. Tiffany Belle

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The New Treezy Play Is Here, a Cinematic Redesign, Now on the App Store

Treezy Play 1.5 is out on iOS: a full cinematic redesign, a smoother way to join, automatic profile portraits, and a fixed opening scene. Android has since shipped too.

Laksh GandikotaJuly 2

Features

Introducing Treezy

Treezy is an interactive movie streaming service, films where the choices are the point, not a bonus feature.

Laksh GandikotaAugust 8