Twine is an excellent tool for creating branching narratives. These narratives can be as simple as choice-based narratives a la Choose Your Own Adventure books or deep interactive media-based experiences.

This comprehensive tutorial series aims to teach you Twine from the ground up. The series assumes you have no Twine experience or even coding experience. Follow along at your leisure. While you can jump around, the tutorials are meant to be followed in sequential order.

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Getting started

• Overview
• Your first story
• Adding more passages
• Coding with variables
• Getting the player’s name

Adding complexity

• Creating a basic inventory
• Branching your narrative in code
• Getting loopy with loops
• Defining in-game objects
• Building an advanced inventory

Building out the story

• Linking inventory items
• Picking up and placing Items
• Randomizing object locations
• Using Game Objects
• Creating a Wandering NPC (in progress)
• Winning and Losing

Finishing touches

• Adding Images
• Incorporating Music and Sound Effects
• What’s Next?