Create Engaging Interactive Stories with Twine!

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Community Review for Twine

Lenny D.
Lenny D.
Atlanta International School
Atlanta GA, US
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This is a great tool to use when starting a game design unit. Students can build very simple games, with no coding required, then can slowly learn bits of html to bring their game to life. Also because of the story element it meant my students really focussed on building a narrative for their story! This was a great way to test and strengthen our computational thinking. We loved it!

How I Use It

I used this at the start of my Game Design unit. Students had to design interactive story games to solve a problem in our community. They have created games for 6th graders to get to know the school layout and rules, one for teenagers about driving safely and games about managing your homework load. A lot of these topics might sound a little dull, but my students added in a great amount of humor to bring these to life! They also put in a lot of their own html to add in images, change the font and to make the game even more interactive.
I've also recently made a game with my Grade 6 advisory class, where we put all the information we learnt during an Aqua Vitae/water unit, into our own game!

I'm going to work with some other subject teachers to build games in Twine - including a game about science experiments and lab safety and a creative story with a Grade 7 English class.

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Todd B.
Todd B. Teacher Lancaster Mennonite School Lancaster, PA
March 19, 2015

Excellent online resource for storytelling, coding, and summarizing. Great for 1:1 applications!

I love the concept Twine is using. The Twine 2 version, which I used, is an web-based tool which looks nice and is relatively easy to use. Learning to use the tool took about 10 minutes of instruction. Students that get into the work can be taught the more advanced coding-like aspects of Twine including conditional statements, etc. The only concern I have currently is HUGE. There is no easy way to save the files. The computers in our school don't allow students to save locally, and there is no easy way to save to a flash drive or their Google Drive. Add that functionality and this would be a sweet assessment tool.
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Julie Y.
Julie Y. Teacher South Portland High School South Portland, ME
February 3, 2015

A fun way to teach interactive story creation- not a lot of bells and whistles, but gets it done.

This is a great tool for certain students: some really liked it, some hated it. To be honest: most coding type applications fall under that category. I don't think one programming tool is going to be everyone's cup of tea. It works. It does a good job simplifying a choose your own adventure style story. It allows students to create a world that others can interact with. It can probably do a lot more than I had my students work with; so I would recommend this to anyone interested in interactive story telling to at least check out.
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