Choose Your Own Adventure

Testing out Twine:
  • With a partner, create a storyboard with 3 levels (10 minutes)
  • On one computer, partners will go to Twine and start coding story. 
    • ​Pair Programming hints: driver types and takes input from navigator; we will switch every 5 minutes
  • ​If you get all your levels working, then you can add images & adjust color/fonts
Example Code:
Quick, you need to save the Prince.

<img width="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Le_petit_prince.png/438px-Le_petit_prince.png">
credit: wikimedia

[[Take the horse]]

[[Take the spaceship]]

Stylesheet Code:
@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400,700,400italic,700italic);
 
body, tw-story
{
  font-family: Lora, serif;
  font-size: 18px;
    background-color: lightblue;
}

Add Sound (advanced):
  • Record audio
    • QuickTime Player (pre-installed on MacBooks):  select File -> New Audio Recording. When complete, save the file. The resulting audio file will have an extension of .m4a. 
      OR
    • Audacity (free download): select the Round record button to start recording and then the Square stop button to stop. Select File -> Export Audio and export as a .wav file.
    • Save audio for each passage separately. Attach all your audio files in an e-mail and send to kwilkens@stab.org.
  • When you get URLs for your audio files back from Ms. Wilkens, you can add the following Audio Code into the appropriate pages and replace the URL of your sound effect with the URL shared by Ms. Wilkens.

<audio src="the URL of your sound effect" autoplay> 
Share Project
  • Open your story in twine
  • Select My Story
  • Select Publish to File
  • Attach the .html file to an e-mail to me (kwilkens@stab.org)
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