While trying to finish my assignment. I had a disaster! My computer froze, while my external drive was till connected to the computer. I waited a while to let the computer work normally, but it didn’t. Therefore, I manually rebooted the computer. When the...
ARTIST STATEMENT Reconnect is an interactive story created by Lola. The story follows a young detective, Matthew, thriving to achieve his long awaited promotion. When assigned a new case, he was shocked and saddened to find out that the latest victim was one of his...
In my previous post I mentioned that I intended to add images to all the passages. although with one of the passages a background doesn’t work well. this passage contains the variable. since the page is reloading because the number is changing it affects the...
Some of the passages don’t have backgrounds because I haven’t found images that suit the passage. Then it occurred to me that I can make a background image. So for the opening page, I used Photoshop and created a title background. The images below show...
I wanted to add a variable when Matthew(the main character) shoots through Jakey (his friend) I found a Youtube tutorial on how to add variables to interactive stories in Twine. VegetarianZombie (2015a) Intro to twine 2.0: Conditions. Available at:...
The video below is my second draft. I split the paragraphs into sections. This was so that the large paragraphs wouldn’t overwhelm the audience. Also, it creates anticipation and keeps the audience engaged to find out what happens next. To Do next: Add the rest...
I want the audience to feel like they are in control, similar to how the interactive game ‘Episode’ makes their players feel. To do this, I’m giving the audience two choices that will help develop the narrative. The choices in ‘Episode’...
A friend in class helped me to add shadows to the text box and to add padding to the text box. THE CODE the box-shadow helped make the text box stand out more and give the interface of the Twine story a 3D effect. I will definitely be using this code throughout...
VegetarianZombie (2015) Intro to twine 2.0: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhdJuXEgrn0&list=PLFgjYYTq6xyjBtXJTvEaBTVUWxirY6q24&index=6 (Accessed: 18 May 2016). I saw this tutorial on Youtube in the video the made...
I did some research on how to make an interactive story. I found 5 tips from lbbonline.com that were very helpful. All this information was from here. Ltd, L. (2012) 5 simple tricks to follow when making an interactive story. Available at:...
For homework, we had to download Twine 1.4.2. this is the program we will be using to create our interactive stories. Below is a draft of the improved story, Reconnect. I imported this story into Twine. Hi. My name is Matthew, not Matt, not Matty just Matthew....
The main changes I’ve made to the story are: The title – Into The Wild didn’t go well with the storyline. I felt it would confuse the audience as to what type of story this is. Therefore, I changed the title to ‘Reconnect’ because the...
Episode is an interactive story game that is available as an app for Apple and Android phone. In the game, players are presented with thousands of animated stories where their choices matter. Episode also empowers writers to write and animate their own stories for...
