Twine - Interactive Fiction with a Twist for Scenario/Problem Based Learning

Tools to build interactive fiction are rarely used to build interactive branching scenarios! I don’t know why? I’ve always found the current set of tools at our disposal to be lacking because variables (or choices made) can’t be shared across screens/branches and custom scripting is often not allowed. I’ve always thought using interactive fiction software would be a better alternative, although I never explored it further until I played an interactive project decision scenario built with Twine (via Twitter - created by the ASCILITE TELedvisors Special Interest Group, Monash Education Innovation (Monash University) and Charles Darwin University). The scenario involves making key decisions to implement a project while reviewing various project status attributes (i.e. day remaining, budget, project risk and even your reputation).

What can you do?

  • Author Complex Branching/Problem Based Learning Scenarios

    You can download and create multi-pathway scenarios that have branches, variables and conditional logic. The scenario can be exported to HTML.

  • Include Media

    Full support for media and styling (i.e. css). Additional functionality via SugarCube library (http://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/)

  • Embed complex decision logic

    Javascript is supported.

To get started:

  1. Download for Mac, Linux or Windows. There is even an online editor.
  2. Follow a simple tutorial to get started.