Twine

Making an interactive game, besides requiring a good amount of inspiration and creativity, also commands appropriate software in which to build it. Twine is an open-source solution that seeks to provide that, offering plenty of features in an intuitive package, welcoming to any potential user.

The modern design is immediately apparent at first glance. After the short tutorial, the app will prompt you to create a new story where you can add and alter passages.

Upon generating a new passage, you can edit it to correspond with your story. The options available at the top of the text box are there to enrich your tales: the usual options found in any text editor, such as bolding and italicizing your text, are there, but just below that is where the interesting bit happens.

The variables and conditional clauses make Twine so much more exciting, but there's even more. Hyperlinks enhance the interactivity of your games, whilst Hooks and Macros are there to dynamize your story that much more.

As you might have guessed, there is quite a high skill ceiling in using those functions. The prior mentioned clauses, variables, and elements feature a lot of customizability that ensures experienced users will have a lot of room to develop their creativity.

For instance, inserting a hyperlink into one of our passages gave us the possibility that, upon interacting with it, we would be taken to a different section of the story. The clauses went even deeper than that, as it allowed us to obstruct certain passages from the player's view unless a condition was met: as an example, the player had to visit the page at least twice to uncover the full text.

In conclusion, Twine brings about a great way to create some invigorating, interactive games through its dynamic functions and easy-to-comprehend interface, effectively providing any user the possibility to create their own story.