Twine

So, I downloaded the desktop version of Twine.
Awesome.
It appears to be very easy to use (especially if you’ve ever done anything with a wiki). Essentially, Twine allows you to create “stories”.

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

You don’t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you’re ready.

Then you can easily “Publish to File”.
Nice.
You can decide where to save the file. Double clicking the file opens the story in a web browser.
Cool.
Now I want to share it with a group.
Hm.
According to the documentation, I can email the file to others. That’s…interesting. But what I want to do is to embed the file in a web page. Ah, there’s a WordPress plugin.
Great.
However, the plugin is no longer available due to “security concerns”.
Think, Think, Think.
The resulting file is just an HTML file. I have a website. What if I post the HTML file on my website?
Let’s fire up the website and see what happens.
Ta-Da!
It works as expected. Now this is super basic as I spent about 30 seconds creating a couple of pages, but it does seem to work.

So, I could create a “Choose Your Own Adventure” presentation/PD experience.

Now I need to understand why I would use this instead H5P and with the Branching Scenario.

It is nice to have choices though.

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