How Big Can This Ball of Twine Get?
April 17, 2015 5:12 AM Subscribe
What are the best examples of using Twine for something other than interactive fiction?
I'm late to discovering Twine, and it looks fun and useful to people with limited coding knowledge. Thanks to some posts here and on the Blue and the examples Twine's site, I've found a bunch of examples of interactive fiction, but nothing that exploits its potential beyond the typical "choose your story variable/next move" or "click here for the next sentence/paragraph" formats.
What are some examples of people using Twine to do something different? Given its either/or, if/then structure, it would seem that quizzes, flowcharty "Which X should I use to do Y?" exercises, learning modules, etc. would be easy to build. I would imagine graphic or sound media could also be compiled from the choices the user makes into something interesting as well. Being HTML-based, Twine also claims to play well with other programming languages; is anybody doing anything cool with that?
I know one can get many of the same results using other platforms and approaches, but I'm specifically interested in people using Twine. Both solid and powerful and innovative outer-edges uses would be welcome; I suppose interactive fiction that employs really knockout design fits the bill too. I'm really just trying to get a feel for what all this tool can do.
I'm late to discovering Twine, and it looks fun and useful to people with limited coding knowledge. Thanks to some posts here and on the Blue and the examples Twine's site, I've found a bunch of examples of interactive fiction, but nothing that exploits its potential beyond the typical "choose your story variable/next move" or "click here for the next sentence/paragraph" formats.
What are some examples of people using Twine to do something different? Given its either/or, if/then structure, it would seem that quizzes, flowcharty "Which X should I use to do Y?" exercises, learning modules, etc. would be easy to build. I would imagine graphic or sound media could also be compiled from the choices the user makes into something interesting as well. Being HTML-based, Twine also claims to play well with other programming languages; is anybody doing anything cool with that?
I know one can get many of the same results using other platforms and approaches, but I'm specifically interested in people using Twine. Both solid and powerful and innovative outer-edges uses would be welcome; I suppose interactive fiction that employs really knockout design fits the bill too. I'm really just trying to get a feel for what all this tool can do.
Twine has a forum - http://twinery.org/forum/index.php where you might get a better answer to this question.
posted by typecloud at 12:40 PM on April 23, 2015
posted by typecloud at 12:40 PM on April 23, 2015
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People have also used it for their personal sites, e.g. Anna Anthropy's.
a Kiss is a piece with an amazing node map.
posted by glass origami robot at 7:31 AM on April 17, 2015