OUR STORY

Stories are betterwhen you’re in them.

ThatStoryThing was made around a simple idea:

The screen shouldn’t become the storyteller.You should.

The grown-up reads. The child chooses. The story changes.

Sometimes things go sideways. Sometimes a strange little object turns up again three nights later. Sometimes the ridiculous voice you invented becomes the bit everyone remembers.

That’s the point.

Human voice. Shared imagination.

We want to leave room for your silly voices, your pauses and their wonderful interruptions.

No narrator trying to steal the show. No screen doing all the imagining. Just enough technology to set the adventure in motion — then get out of the way.

A small belief behind the whole thing

Imaginations are precious.

They deserve room to stretch, wander, make a mess, and occasionally take the story somewhere nobody expected.

My hope is that ThatStoryThing helps inspire those little imaginations — and keeps them alive for as long as possible.

Who made it

ThatStoryThing was created by George Oliver, a longtime animator, filmmaker, builder and maker from New Zealand.

After years spent helping create imaginary worlds for film, the idea here became much smaller and, in a way, much more important:

Give families a little world they can make together.