By default, Twine creates text-based branching narratives. You'll find two versions of a text-based Twine below: the standard version and the Meta-Twine.
Scenario for the Text-Based Twine: You are an Economics professor. Your course has recently expanded to include non-majors. Unfortunately, change can sometimes bring about unexpected consequences, and how you decide to react may have a lasting impact on your students and your teaching career.
This first example is a completed Twine narrative. Please go through it to familiarize yourself with Twine and branching narratives as they would appear to your learner. For the standard Twine, we used the SugarCube story format with no custom CSS, to show what Twine produces by default. We like the user interface bar included with SugarCube, because it gives learners a way to save their progress (which can also be useful for turning in assignments for completion credit) and restart quickly.
The second example is a Meta-Twine. The Meta-Twine follows the single "correct" path in the Twine (i.e. we make the decisions for you), and includes tips and tricks for helping you create and conceptualize your own Twines and branching narratives. For the Meta-Twine, we disabled the collapsible user interface bar on the left to make room for the tooltips, but added a "Back" link so you could still revisit old passages. To view the tips, simply hover over any text with a dotted underline and the tooltip will appear.
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