Today I will be comparing the following two entries: Brian Lam’s “Fate” Exercise, with my own “Workplace Ethics and Compliance” exercise. 

We both used Twine for the assignment, however, Brian did an excellent job of embedding his twine task onto a Wix page, so that I did not need to download the zipped file. This makes the activity more accessible. Brian’s exercise was a narrative story, similar to a “choose your own adventure,” in which I can end up married and “liv[ing] happily ever after” or in the hospital “with amnesia.” This narrative style reminds me of a freestyle video game or dungeons and dragons, in which you decide what choices you make, but not the consequences.

In comparison, I focused my twine assignment to be more focused on compliance training. I created scenarios for teaching purposes, to teach potential employees (learners) different policies and procedures. I imagined a scenario where you need to train a new employee. Using my twine assignment, I mimicked a corporate gamified scenario.

Twine gives us a lot of freedom to create a world of our own. Giving us an endless amount of choices and narratives. We see the limitations of twine in the design. It is a very simple design, and in my experience, it was incredibly difficult to add images or sounds to enhance the activity. Therefore, many of the twine outputs, including Brian’s and my own look very similar. However, it is in the content where we are able to be creative and make it our own.

In conclusion, I enjoyed seeing how Brian’s assignment compared to my own. An aspect of the assignment was to use the Twine tool, so the tool itself was the same. But seeing how Brian incorporated that into a Wix site so he could control the output was interesting. In addition, his use of a narrative story vs. a corporate compliance training gave it a very different feeling. Brian’s activity was enjoyable to go through because you were the lead character and walked through the story itself, making decisions and feeling like you needed to uncover a mystery, discovering your own “Fate.”