Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine

16. Adding Images in a New Format

At the beginning of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice muses when she peeks at the tome her sister is reading, “What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” Maybe you feel the same way. Maybe your favorite interactive fiction games blend words and pictures, like Inkle’s 80 Days or Simogo’s The Sailor’s Dream.

Learning how to add images to games may seem like an odd tangent since I’ve been approaching Twine as a medium for creating text-only games. But graphical interactive fiction (that is, interactive fiction games that include pictures or graphical games that include words) has a long history, extending back to the early 1980s.

Back then, the graphical interactive fiction ...