Download - Twine Workshop
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How to Twine something
A few short notes on using the Twine software to read a text
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Hello!• I'm Mikkel Lodahl
• I teach game design and game analysis at Dania Games
• Which consists of two applied science educations in programming and design
• It's located in Grenaa, the video game capital of Denmark
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Basic Twine
• A series of passages of text and or pictures, connected by lines that allow the player to chart a path through a story
• Made in a simple, graphical editor
• But actually made in your planning out before-hand
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Here was a picture of how a Twine-map looks that came from this site:
http://slav.global2.vic.edu.au/2012/12/12/interactive-fiction-with-twine/#.Uz6ZoVYaySM
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There are many resources for learning how to use Twine
• twinery.org
• The best text tutorial: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/twine/
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But I want to focus on the thinking process involved in planning your Twine game
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Basically, my theory is this...
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To write fanfiction well, you must understand the original text well
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Where most fanfiction fails as a created work is in the structure - nothing interesting happens
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Interactive fiction is only about things happening - it's just called input
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So preparing an interactive fiction version of a text - writing Twine fanfiction - will make you undestand what is interesting in the original
text's structure
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Who do you play?
• Who is the protagonist of the original text?
• Who might it be fun to be?
• Who faces interesting choices?
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Star Wars
Luke Skywalker is the protagonist.
But do we really want to be him and make choices as him?
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The Princess on the Pea
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Isolating interesting choices
• In linear media, interesting choices are interesting because of their consequences
• In interactive media, interesting choices are interesting because they are interesting to make
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Star Wars
Luke's aunt and uncle are dead, killed by stormtroopers.
What are his possible choices? Which of them are interesting?
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The Princess on the Pea
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Find spaces for expansion
• Where in the original text is there room to tell a different story?
• Remember that the different story needs to preserve something of the original
• This is usually well accomplished through isolating one or more themes in the original text and building a story from that
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Star WarsSome possible spaces for more story:
The Cantina Aliens The officers at the officer meeting The construction of the Death Star
The acquiring of the Death Star plans by the Rebels
Which themes from Star Wars as such could you use in each of these spaces?
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The Princess on the Pea
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Exercise
• Sit down and find a protagonist, some interesting choices and a space in the Princess on the Pea
• Plan out a short interactive fiction story this way
• You have fifteen minutes!