Today we will begin using the Twine program to do some storyboarding. There are two key outcomes: 1) we will be learning to use the Twine program--making links and adding style information; and 2) we will begin to think about the kinds of stories that are well suited to the Twine platform and develop a tentative topic for your projects.
Follow these steps:
Basic Story: Begin by completing the paper-based brainstorming activity that we will do in class. This should give you a basic structure for experimenting with Twine links.
Once you have completed step one of the paper-based activity, go to the Twinery.org web site, and compose your story. Don't bog down in getting the perfect turn of a phrase--instead add some language and create the structure. We will do this together.
Style and Moving Files: For this exercise, we will experiment first with the process of changing the look and feel of the Twine page. Open the Style sheet for your project, and add the codes below:
tw-story
{
background-color: grey;
}
See what happens. Go back and change the font colors using more CSS:
color: red;
Spend some time experimenting with the aspects of the fonts following some of the examples for basic text styling.
Finally, we will look at metatags and explore ways of styling different pages with different colors, etc. To do this, you will need to learn to import a file into Twine. First, download this file to your computer: http://altscholarship.com/mashlit/sites/default/files/2017-03/metaconcepts.html It should be saved as an HTML file with .html as its extension.
Next, select the Home icon in your Twine platform, and then Import from File. Locating the metaconcepts file you have downloaded and open it. You should now have a new project that we will explore together.
Once we have finished with some basic Twine experimentation, return to the paper-based brainstorming sheet, and look over the four potential topics. Spend time on the back of the page filling in lists with ideas. When finished, you can continue to experiment with Twine.
If we have time, we will also take a look at this file:
(http://altscholarship.com/mashlit/sites/default/files/variables.html).
Before breaking up we will also discuss our playlist revisions.
Before class on Monday, explore the Twine manual, watch this video and Read this article.