GUIDE TO VIDEO GAME AND INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

Basic Assignment

Writing stories through Twine can scale up or down very quickly. To give students clear expectations, you might set some minimums for the complexity of their stories. For example:

Your Twine story must include

  • At least five 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 two distinct endings

Watch this tutorial for everything you need to make a simple story using Twine.

Examples

You can make all sorts of games with Twine. Below are a few examples to give you some ideas.

A short game about mental strength and kindness.

A short horror story with 5 endings about a childhood sleepover.

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Resources and Tutorials

Want to take your story a step further? Because Twine is such a popular tool, there are tons of resources and tutorials online to help students learn to use it. Take a look at some of these resources.

Using Variables in Twine

(Tutorial begins at 3:00)

Creating Choices in Twine

(Tutorial begins at 3:10)

Adding Images to your Story

(Tutorial begins at 4:02)

Images, Sound Effects, and Background Music