As you work on twining your own story, here’s how things will work in the end:
- Evaluative rubric:
- Structure. Do the twine passages represent a sequence of narrative events (kernels)? Do the passages connect smoothly and logically? Do narrative branches (choices) make sense?
- Code. Do links work properly? Do images, sounds, and video load and function properly?
- Discourse. Are the passages well-written? Do they make the issues, themes, conflicts, etc. of the story clear to the reader/player? Are the text and multimedia well-organized?
- Aesthetics. Are the passages visually/aurally appealing and well-designed? Do the multimedia elements evince a clear intentionality? (I.e. is the purpose of each multimedia element clear?) Is there a consistent style to the twine? To what extent does it seem that the twine story has imagined a reader and his/her/their activity? Is the twine fun?
2. When you’ve finished your twine, you will do two things with it: publish your twine to your domain (using Cyberduck or another ftp client); publish your twine to either philome.la or itch.io — two online twine/game repositories. (The philome upload is pretty self-explanatory; itchio instructions are here.) You’ll send me the links to both publications.
3. After you’ve completed all of this, there’s one final step. Use a blog post to:
- describe the process of twining your story (from reducing to kernels, to passage-building, coding, and publication) with a particular focus on what was easiest/most difficult about this process
- analyze the design of one selected passage in detail. I.e. take one of your passages and explain why you wrote what you wrote in the passage, why you placed each multimedia element, and how this passage “fits” with the whole twine story
- explain what you’ve learned through the twine process. This should include several aspects: what you learned about your short story; and, what you learned about coding and the twine program; and, what you learned about “re-making” or revising or remixing or recreating a story
- offer some general reflections about the value or significance of the twine project
Take your time with this blog post and try to provide a rich representation of your experience with twine and storytelling.
Due: Sunday, May 19, noon