Building on my last post, I created a twine story where the user gets to be a cat, either “Sam” or “Ben”. This choice is arbitrary in this version, but I could imagine creating a whole separate storyline for the different characters if I had more time. It took awhile to get used to Twine as I have never used it before, but once I got started I found it to be a very intuitive platform. After spending a few hours thrashing to figure out the basics, I put together the story. I spent some time storyboarding out the different options and events I wanted to include in the story and then wrote the actual content directly in the Twine passages. I found myself relying on a more informal storytelling choice of words and sentence structure than I typically use in writing, and found that the format of a text based game feels very conversational. I can see Twine being useful for teaching/learning since it can be made very interesting and engaging. Using more variables and multimedia, it would be fun to create a more complex learning game eventually using this platform.