A Twine 2 Story Format for creating Interactive Screenplays.
Howdy!
Here's the basic how-to for using Screentastic
-Open Twine 2. -On the right side, you'll see +story, Import from File, Archive, and Formats. Click on Formats. -There will be the popup window that shows you all of your currently installed formats. At the top, on the third tab is "Add a New Format". Click that. -Copy-paste either the folder, or the URL into the box and click "+Add" -Here's where it gets a little funky. Twine doesn't really know when a Story Format's been added, so just wait for 5-10 seconds and it should be completely loaded. -X out of the format popup and click on "Formats" again. -Click on the "Story Formats" tab and Screentastic will show up underneath Sugarcube. There's no icon at this point so it just shows a broken image.
And that's it! Screentastic is installed in Twine and whenever there is an update, simply overwrite that format.js file and Twine will automatically use the updated format file.
Using Twine is pretty simple. There's two main modes: Production mode and Sketch mode.
In Production mode, Screentastic acts just like a regular screenplay, with links added. It uses its own special kid of markup that looks like so:
Itm is the kind of object you need displayed at that point. It could be a character name, some dialogue, a parenthetical... anything. content is the actual content of the code block. So for instance, if I have this snippet:
cha>>Dan the man
dia>>I'm the fucken man!
It will show up as if you wrote it with Final Draft, Celtx, or any other screenwriting software.
Sketch mode, on the other hand is a great place for outlining your ideas. simply make the first line of the first passage "sketch>>" or type "window.sketchMode = true" into the story javascript, and Screentastic will turn every single line of the story into an unordered list item.
I personally use Sketch mode to write down my story beats, then turn them into screenplay format in another story.