Community reviews for Twine

This is a great tool to use when starting a game design unit. Students can build very simple games, with no coding required, then can slowly learn bits of html to bring their game to life. Also because of the story element it meant my students really focussed on building a narrative for their story! This was a great way to test and strengthen our computational thinking. We loved it!

I love the concept Twine is using. The Twine 2 version, which I used, is an web-based tool which looks nice and is relatively easy to use. Learning to use the tool took about 10 minutes of instruction. Students that get into the work can be taught the more advanced coding-like aspects of Twine including conditional statements, etc. The only concern I have currently is HUGE. There is no easy way to save the files. The computers in our school don't allow students to save locally, and there is no easy way to save to a flash drive or their Google Drive. Add that functionality and this would be a sweet assessment tool.

This is a great tool for certain students: some really liked it, some hated it. To be honest: most coding type applications fall under that category. I don't think one programming tool is going to be everyone's cup of tea. It works. It does a good job simplifying a choose your own adventure style story. It allows students to create a world that others can interact with. It can probably do a lot more than I had my students work with; so I would recommend this to anyone interested in interactive story telling to at least check out.