Play my game here… at your own risk!
I had SO much fun creating this Twine game. I will be completely transparent in my disdain for following instructions, and yes… I understand the irony of this. Because of this quirk, I did not follow the YouTube video given by Ernesto, instead I searched for sources that I knew would work for me (explicit and mixed media – some YouTube, some website, etc.) For example, I searched how to change the font colour separate from how to link passages. I love explicit instructions that are chunked and easy to understand.
I created my story and then went back in and added gifs, changed colours, added tags, etc. I found that having a foundation of what my story looked like was less overwhelming then trying to write a passage and then format it. It was challenging for me to come up with a story I thought people would enjoy, and thus chose something from my life that I have lived. I also chose to expand on the hypertexts I used to include links to external sources. Bolter (2001) talks about the limitless nature of hypertext in the sense that using links within a book has confines, but using links within the internet has no bounds. I found this particularly interesting because I grew up reading the Give Yourself Goosebumps Series, which is a choose your own adventure book (Scholastic Kids, 2023). I understand what Bolter (2001) was touching on, in that the story only exists within those pages and nowhere else. With hypertext, stories can exist across such a vast area of the internet, it really is limitless.
I included hypertexts from Spotify, Amazon, Scholastic Kids, and YouTube (see if you can find them all).
References
Bolter, J. D. (2001). Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Scholastic Kids (2023). Give yourself goosebumps series. Goosebumps. https://kids.scholastic.com/content/kids64/en/books/goosebumps/series/give-yourself-goosebumps.html
References for CSS/HTML (I did not put these in alpha order as I figured grouping them like this would be more meaningful for my classmates)
CSS/HTML coding for changing colours:
How to change the color of the background of a single passage? – Twine Q&A. (31 Aug, 2018). Retrieved February 12, 2023, from http://twinery.org/questions/27357/how-to-change-the-color-of-the-background-of-a-single-passage
Color codes:
Dixon, A. (2022). HTML color codes. https://htmlcolorcodes.com/
Changing text (alignment, size, colour):
Stockton WordPress Blog. (2015). A twine cheat sheet. https://blogs.stockton.edu/textscape/files/2015/04/A-Twine-Cheat-Sheet.pdf
Gifs: