Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine

Introduction: Introduction to Interactive Fiction

Have you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to step inside it? Do you sometimes wish that you could walk around Narnia or become a student at Hogwarts? Do you think about alternate paths for the narrative or wish you could see the choices not taken for characters? What if all the bells and whistles were stripped away from a game, and all you were left with was the perfect, engaging story? What if I told you that there’s a type of computer game that allows the player to enter and control the story, like in a Choose Your Own Adventure book?

It’s called interactive fiction.

In this book you’ll learn how to make your own interactive fiction using Twine.

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