Worksheets and resources for a Dojo about the Twine interactive fiction platform.
Claire Quigley (Original version)
Martin Goodfellow (Twine 2 version)
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License.
- Computer
- Printer
- Paper
- Pencil
You can read some of the interactive stories written by coders at our Dojos here: Twine Stories
This repository has two versions of the same activity - the original workshop for the older Twine 1.4 and an updated version for Twine 2.
- Follow the instructions on the worksheet: Library Adventure - instructions - Sept 18.pdf
- You can write down your own choice of story elements on a print out of TwineHandoutSheet.pdf if you like.
- Download the Twine application (for Windows or Mac depending on your computer) from twinery.org
- Install Twine from the downloaded file and open it when it's finished installing.
- Go to the file menu and open the file LibraryAdventure.tws that you downloaded
- Follow the instructions on the worksheet: TwineWorksheet.pdf
- You can write down your own choice of story elements on a print out of TwineHandoutSheet.pdf if you like.
Unlike at an actual Dojo, we can't upload your story to our server, but there are a number of free sites that will host your Twine story once you've built it to produce an HTML file. These include:
Keep in mind that as with any creative tool, whether it's text-, video-, or photo-based, not all the Twine stories on the web will be suitable for younger readers.