Hey there! This is a bit different from what I usually post. One of my final units at uni had me complete a group assignment in which we were to create a text-based branching narrative game with some software called Twine (which, by the way, is excellent, easy to use, and free).
If you don’t know what a branching narrative game is, it’s the same context as the old ‘choose your own adventure’ story books you may have read in childhood where you flip to different pages (as indicated) to see the story unfold in various different ways.
This concept was popularised very effectively by the videogame series ‘The Walking Dead’ (well known due to the AMC television series bearing the same name).
Well, in my group, it was my job to write the script of the story, and my partner’s job to put it in Twine. Sadly, I never saw the end product, and I know that my partner made some revisions to the story I created, so I figured hey why not, we’ve got another little (God-willing) lockdown, I might as well go and do his half of the assignment too!
One caveat I will make is this: 80% of this game was created in the final week of semester, so it is by no means perfect, and sometimes has disappointingly few ‘choices’ for a game based around the player’s freedom to affect the progression of the story.
Edit: I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me sooner, I’ve made a download link from my Google Drive. It’s an .html file so just download it and it will open in your web browser. Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Uf-zWyJv28Rk51q0ON1O550QSCeiOSI/view?usp=sharing
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