Make Your Own Twine Games!

“xxi, 81 pages : 24 cm "A playful, kid-friendly introduction to game development using Twine, a free online scripting tool for creative storytelling. Author is a well-known professional game designer. Make Your Own Twine Games! shows you how to make interactive fiction games using Twine, a beginner-friendly online tool for creating non-linear stories. Readers use basic web scripting to design choose-your-own-adventure games using author's games as examples. Anthropy walks readers through game development process from start to finish, covering everything from mapping out a game's structure and story to debugging the end product. Readers will understand what makes designing video games challenging and fun, and will feel ready to bring their own game ideas to life"-- ""A beginner-friendly guide to creating interactive fiction games using Twine. Covers the entire game development process including basic web scripting"--Provided by publisher"--” Bring your game ideas to life with Twine! Twine is a free online tool that lets anyone new to programming create their own interactive, story-based adventure games in a web page. In Make Your Own Twine Games! , game designer Anna Anthropy takes you step-by-step through the game development process, from coming up with a basic idea to structuring your game. Youll learn the basics of Twine like how to use links and apply images and formatting to make your game look more distinct. Youll get tips on how to test your game, export it, and publish it online, and even understand more advanced features like scripting to get your game to remember and respond to player choices. As you make your way through the book and begin crafting your own interactive fiction, youll learn other cool tricks like how Write stories that follow multiple paths using hyperlinks Create variables to track your players actions Add scripting like if and else to decide when ghosts should appear in your game Use hooks to add fancy touches like text effects, pictures, and sound With example games to act as inspiration, Make Your Own Twine Games! will take you from story-teller to game designer in just a few clicks! Ready player one? The game starts now. Covers Twine 2 ""A beginner-friendly guide to creating interactive fiction games using Twine. Covers the entire game development process including basic web scripting"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher