1. The Nuts and Bolts: Getting Started with Twine

Using Twine is a lot like playing with Legos. It takes only a few seconds to learn how to snap Lego bricks together and build a simple house. Spend a little more time with Legos and their instructions, and you can put together a set. Spend a lot more time with Legos, and you can design your own projects that utilize engineering concepts.

In this chapter, you’re going to start by snapping together a quick story with Twine. Afterward, you’ll backtrack and learn your way around the Twine site. As you read this book, you’ll learn how to do more and more complicated things with Twine by adding scripting. Building a simple story is cool, but creating a role-playing game that you can play with friends ...

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