How Make a Video Game

Or Interactive Fiction for fun and Education

TwineTwine is a free and Open Source Video Game

Software..so you can download for you and your friends

FREEIt make a Kind of Game called “interactive Fiction”You can DOWNLOAD Twine for Free at The

Twinery.com

THE BASICS

Interactive Fiction

Fiction is a fancy word for STORY or LIE…

But when is a Story is NOT a lie?

When it teaches a Lesson!

THE BASICS

THE BASICS

The Rabbit and the Turtle tells how Slow Turtle wins a race, with fast rabbit…

HOW, WHY ?

THE BASICSRabbit chooses to sleep

The Turtle keeps going

Turtle wins

IMPORTANT WORD CHOOSE!!

Jack and the BeanstalkJack is

Poor and Starving

Jack has Goose

that lays Golden

EggsJack Does Stuff not to be poor!!!

How Stories Teach

How Stories Teach

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack is Poor and Starving

Jack has Goose

that lays Golden

Eggs

START END

Stuff happens

How Stories Teach

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack is Poor and Starving

Jack has Goose

that lays Golden

Eggs

START/BAD

END/GOOD

STUFF

STUFF

STUFF

STUFF

STUFF

STUFF

Each STUFF happensJack is Poor

Jack Goes to Sell Cow

Jack meets funny man who offers Beans

for Cow & accepts

How Stories Teach

Jack is Poor

Jack does NOT GO TOsell the cow

CHOICE

CHOICEJack goes to

sell cow

How Stories Teach

How Stories Teach

Jack is Poor and Starving

Jack has Goose

that lays Golden

Eggs

START/BAD

END/GOOD

STUFF

STUFF

STUFF

STUFF

CHOICE

STUFF

Jack Dies of

StarvationEND/BAD

because Jack makes a CHOICE

What If you controlled the stuff ?

Jack is Poor and Starving CHOICE

Jack sells cow

rides to local kids

Jack makes enough money

for more crops

END/GOOD?

Jack goes to sell cow

START/BAD

Jack has Goose that lays Golden

Eggs

END/GOOD

When you open the Twine Folder

Twine Basic Page

Your first project will Have 3 Boxes

These boxes are called Passages in Twine

The Passages

This box will be Where you put your first passage, it MUST be named start

Story Title is pretty self explanatory

So is this

Your Start Passage

You automatically created new passages

[img[beanstalk]]

You can also Add images

You can Google images from the Web and download them OR make them yourself!!!!

So Now it is Fancy

The images automatically

import into the story but keep

them in the same FOLDER as the game

But wait there is more!!!You can add HTML & CSS

HTML is a special set of codes that tell text how to display among other things.

One HTML command is H1 it means heading one and it means this can be done

CSS• Cascading Style Sheets can help you create a Different feel for a page or

text.

So lets try this out…. And Play

What you want more stuff ?

Jack is Poor and Starving CHOICE

Jack sells cow

rides to local kids

Jack goes to sell cow

START/BAD

Jack Never Leaves

You can have more than 2 options, really as many as you want to make!

Or stuff or stuff not to End ?

Jack is Poor and Starving CHOICE

Jack sells cow

rides to local kids

Jack goes to sell cow

START/BAD

Jack Never Leaves

Twine can Loop back on itself, and recreate passages

[[action | passage name]]

Twine can Loop back on itself, and revisit passages

You can also change the Passage based on where you’ve been

You can also change the Passage based on where you’ve been

And this is what you see if you asked about the magic beans

So this is what you see if you didn’t ask about the magic beans

But it is the Same Passage and the same options for what is next!

ADVANCED STUFFYou can also set variable

Also Change Variables

X = ?

X + X = 2X

ADVANCED STUFF