Going Further

Writing stories through Twine can scale up or down very quickly. To give students clear expectations, you might set some basic requirements. For example:

Your Twine story must include

• At least three variables (tutorial here)

• At least ten instances where the player can make a choice to go down a different story branch

  • These can link back up to existing branches. You do not need to have ten unique branches; they can cross over each other and overlap.

• At least three distinct endings

• At least one sound (tutorial here)

  • Be sure to give proper credit to any sound you use

• At least two images (tutorial here or here)

  • Be sure to give proper credit to any images you use

However, students can take this and run with it to make much more complex projects. The only limit to how many branches, endings, etc. students can have in their stories is their own imagination and ambition. Feel free to set some limits to keep the assignment manageable for grading.