Twine story: Summary

Here is a link to my Twine Story on Itch.Io:

https://lewismantle.itch.io/twine-story

Twine is a tool used to plan out stories and allow you to insert links that will take you to the next passage. This tool allowed me to create a choose your own path story with the idea ‘Redecorating my house’. The user chooses the design options and at the end they get a photo of the finished room.

As a tool I found Twine to be very intuitive and not require many skills to operate. However if I did have a problem with anything I could either click the help option within Twine or watch a youtube video to solve the problem. This was possible as Twine is open source so there is a lot of information online about how to develop your knowledge of it. The most useful features that I found within Twine were the options to make some text unique, as within my work it allowed me to highlight the important parts of each paragraph for the story.

Within Twine I found that it didn’t actually have a lot of features. And those that it did have were relatively basic. The features such as basic text writing are extremely common on the types of tools. The other storytelling tools available have features such as being multimedia, having audio and video, none of which are features of Twine.

A challenge I had to overcome whilst using Twine was inserting images into the passages. This was not as easy as I had initially thought. The process of adding these images involved somewhat complex code which I had to search online to find. This took a while as many people used different techniques to insert images.

Overall, Twine worked well for the intended purpose of this project. The features built into Twine were useful as it allowed me to create a complex storyline with many different options for the user to choose. Not only this but allowing for pictures to be added within particularly helped bring my work to a higher standard. I would recommend the use of Twine for someone writing a very basic story but those in need of a more complex tool should try elsewhere.