Hello,

I'm a writer working on a story that I want to present in a non traditional way.

The narrator of the story is an astronaut / filmmaker who gets the opportunity to be on the crew of a scientific expedition. His role on the team is to document and film the entirety of the mission. Ultimately, things go horribly wrong. Everything that the narrator documented, which is what the reader reads, ends up playing a crucial role in how the crew figures out how to make it home.

So the novel is mainly the journal of the filmmaker, as well as other members of the crew. Interlaced with the writing, I want to include "real" footage of the story that I will get commissioned by a vfx artist.

So here are a few things that I want the novel to be able to do:

1. I want it to be free to read on a website I create. So anyone can just go to the website, hit chapter 1, and they are reading in like 5 seconds.

2. I want the reader to swipe to turn pages, rather than scroll. Like an Ebook. Eventually I think it would be great to implement a sci-fi looking page turning animation.

3. A few times every chapter, the reader will swipe to the next page and be met with a video. At first they will be simple. A 30 second shot of a planet, ship, or space station. Because the person narrating the story to you also filmed it, he wants to show you tons of shit.

4. I want to include music during some of the video scenes.

5. I want people to be able to choose if they want to read measurements in metric or imperial.

6. Lastly, for now, I want to include a comment section at the end of each chapter. Once you finish a chapter, you can go to the next one, or hit up the comment section and see people discussing what you just read.

So, hopefully I made enough sense there. Like I said in the title, I'm looking for a starting point to learning how to create this. I haven't got any experience, but I'm someone who has taught myself multiple skills from free resources online.

Should I be looking into html for this? A game engine?

Thanks in advance!