Week Six: Creating a Hypertext World

This week we will be setting up a hypertext game environment in Twine2 and learning how to manage some of the possibilities of choice in the program.

I am asking you to prepare for this week's session in two ways.  First to make a map of the location on your planet that you intend to represent in your Twine game.  You should pick a location on your planet that has landscape features that enables a community to sustain itself at that place.  The community you will be visiting will be human or human-like.  On your map include natural features and geographic elements that show why the community you will be visiting is located where it is.  Include on your map important natural features and any structures that are significant to the community you will be visiting.  

Second I would like you to undertake at least one of the tutorials below to learn the basics of Twine2. We will be working in this environment during class so please bring your laptops or tablets to class on Tuesday. Twine 2 is programmed in your browser.

Here is links to useful tutorials:

This is the most basic work through tutorial for the program to learn its basic function.  We will step through some of these basic functions in-class, this tutorial will help you understand those steps.

https://twinery.org/wiki/twine2:guide

This is a good tutorial in Twine2 about Twine2

http://selfloud.net/HarloweWorkshop.html

Basic RPG Tutorial 

Part One:
http://lambdamaphone.blogspot.com/2015/02/using-twine-for-games-research-part-ii.html?q=twine

Part Two:
http://lambdamaphone.blogspot.com/2015/03/using-twine-for-games-research-part-iii.html?q=Twine

How to Create a Space Exploration Game in Twine 2 (This is a good relevant Tutorial to what we are going to do)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOPqJzXWgo

How to Have a Character ask they Player their name

http://twinery.org/questions/1453/how-could-i-have-a-character-ask-the-player-their-name

Tutorial for Macros

https://twinery.org/forum/discussion/2620/a-tutorial-to-twine-macros-if-set-and-click-for-twine-2-0-harlowe

How to link passages in If statements

https://twinery.org/forum/discussion/5166/how-to-link-passages-in-if-statements

How to make a combination lock in Twine2

https://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-Combination-Lock-in-Twine-2-Harlowe-2/

Building an Inventory System in Twine 2

https://gersande.com/blog/designing-inventories-in-twine-2-with-the-built-in-harlowe-macros/

Twine Cheat Sheet

https://blogs.stockton.edu/textscape/files/2015/04/A-Twine-Cheat-Sheet.pdf

And is a list of Youtube tutorials by Dan Cox that seem useful

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTWJzxNdsIDHiYzGh-2Fd1w

And here is a longer list of Youtube tutorials for the most recent version of Twine 2.3 (Most of us will probably use Harlowe as the story format, it is the default)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=twine+2.3


 Please watch and work through the program as much as you can before you come to class.