Twine
Terms of the Day
Anybody Know What These Mean?
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Interactive Fiction
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Text-Adventure Games
IF for ID
We can define interactive fiction/text adventure as:
- Branching Scenarios
- A Story that puts the Player/Learner in the Driver's Seat
Zork
Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire.
As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these treasures and deposit them in your trophy case.
STORY TIME
That One Where I Ran Into Accessibility Issues
Cases
Labs
Crime Scene
Accessibility means
Equally Rigorous Activities
No shortcuts here.
Classic IF
- Made With: Systems like Inform7, TADS, Adrift
- Played Via: Special Interpreters
Classic IF is normally built with special systems and languages.
Democratized IF
- Made With: Simple, User-Friendly Tools
- Played Via: The Interwebs
Twine uses simple hyperlinks and a graphical UI to help you build games.
EXAMPLE TIME
Twine Games Great and Small
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
- Serious and Silly
- Media-Rich
- Educational and Well-Made
Nick's Dilemma
- Simply Made
- Built by IDs like You
- Larger Branching Scenario and Cases
Twine Texting Project
- Short and Simple
- Mobile/Texting Theme
- Source Downloadable!
RPG-Ish
- Example of creative constraints
- Includes random generators
- Showcase tracking stats/RPG game elements
WHY ON EARTH?
Can't I do this with my Authoring Tool?
Why Twine?
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01. Twine is Free and Open Source
Use it as much as you want for whatever you want
Why Does Open Source Matter?
You Own it
Open source has its own pros and cons, but you can touch every part of what you create. Nothing is hidden from you.
You can also go back and change anything at any time.
STORY TIME
That One Where I Helped Move a Course to a Different Platform
Why Twine?
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01. Twine is Free and Open Source
Use it as much as you want for whatever you want
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02. Twine is great for Rapid Prototyping
Use it to test an idea within minutes
STORY TIME
That One Where I Prototyped a Branching Scenario with Clients in 20 minutes
Why Twine?
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01. Twine is Free and Open Source
Use it as much as you want for whatever you want
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02. Twine is great for Rapid Prototyping
Use it to test an idea within minutes
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03. Twine is Simple and Powerful
Strong enough for a game designer; Made for you
Getting Started With
Twine
City Budget Game
- Serious and Silly
- xAPI Enabled
- Built by IDs like You
Getting Help
Twine will take a little bit of a
Learning Curve
Help is on the Way
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A Basic Twine Tutorial
What is this whole Twine thing? -
YouTube Tutorials
Getting started, step by step. -
The Wiki
Alright, how do I do ....? -
The Cookbook
Gimme the code! -
Twine Q&A
Somebody's got to be able to help with this!
Get In Contact
- Website: http://knanthony.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/anthkris
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