Click on the link above to access my Twine game- Alien Invasion.
What I thought would take maybe an hour turned into a full day’s work trouble shooting, watching tutorials and asking for help. I started by spending some time thinking about what I want my game to be about and what I want it to accomplish. Thinking back a few days to a PD session held at my school on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) which will be one of my school’s main focuses next year, I wanted to create something that would fit into SEL in some way. The idea behind this storyline is that communication is key to solving your problems and understanding each other.
Building the story was quite easy and fun to decide what options to include and where I wanted the direction of my game to lead players to end up at the same place- a solution through simple communication. My difficulties began when I tried to insert images into my Twine. After some trial and error I finally found a strategy of selecting the right line of code from the image worked very well and it was easy to repeat the process for each passage. The real difficulty I face was how to download my game so it could be played by others. After much frustration and trying work around after work around I finally found what was wrong (hours later). My browser (Safari) was not compatible! It was quick and easy to copy and past everything into a new Twine in a Chrome browser and finally everything worked as it should!
I learned a lot about simple coding, trouble shooting and creating Twines during this process and would like to look further into adding sound, movement and changing colours in the future.
Great story, Erin!! Your post and reflection made me feel better about my experience with Twine. I, too, found myself Googling for what felt like forever, and trying to figure out the image codes was quite the adventure! Where did you source your images from? All I could think to use was https://giphy.com/ because I knew the photos would be in a URL.
I love how your story was used as something you could share with your students. Teaching Grade 1, this wasn’t something that crossed my mind, but in hindsight, it should have been! I was more focused on making a ‘create your own adventure story.
In the future, I, too, would love to learn how to add audio to a Twine. I played around with it but couldn’t figure out the correct code.
If it makes you feel better, I, too, had agony over the sharing process. The zip file was something I hadn’t done before and took lots of trial and error to grasp.
Great job again, Erin!
Thanks Trista! I just used google search and specified that I only wanted photos in the public domain/ copyright free. I’ve only ever used Unsplash.con before and could only download the images which was not working so next time I will try the website you used! Glad I was not the only one with troubles, but I was pretty impressed with myself for figuring it all out in the end 🙂