DIY Games for Non-Hackers

Twine is promoted as an open source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.  Do you remember those Choose your own adventure books?  Well Twine helps you make them online.

Either Download Twine or Use it online

It begins with a single passage... double click to edit

Add a title and begin your story... use double brackets to create the next passage

Let the system do the work... each passage has been created for you

Double click to add each storyline

Drag passages around to make it flow nicely

Preview your story and test each link

Select the game title at the bottom, then Publish to File

Save as HTML document

Consider where you want to host your games... we use GitHub and GitHub Pages