Using Twine and Inkle

Twine

Twine was more of an standalone than tool. I thought it was pretty good because you can make a game from it by itself but as a team, we eventually agreed that inkle was a better alternative as it was designed to be intergrated to different game engines.

I saw what games could’ve been made in twine and instantly knew these games were too polished for what I needed. However I still took note of teh capabilities of twine, such as the ability to have an inventory …

Twine was my intoduction to what is needed for specifically game narrative. Whereas movie scripts follow one story, our game has multiple choices and consequences. Therefore I needed to understand how inventories and choices where made.
Coding in twine was a difficult and the guides to use it were just as confusing. Although there is a community with tutorials, some things like creating a file for inventories seemed to be taken for granted and wasn’t talked about in general tutorials

coparitive between coding a choice for twine vs inkle

Because twine helped me lay out the narrative of the first scene, I didn’t mind switching from it to inkle. I understood everything I needed to do and I was away from all the code.

Preventing all this couldve been done with a bit of research and communication with Iris. It seems like twine was more difficult to implement into a game engine versus inkle. Inkle had enough to make a story Twine may have had too much.

Inkle

File corruption

A lot of the time, Inkle never saved any of my work properly, so I was always paranoid on whether my progress would have been reverted even after constantly saving it.

*Sometimes I would open a file just for there to be nothing inside it.*

This was demoralising when using Inkle.

Otherwise, Inkle was a nice and simple tool to use with minimal coding needed and was very narrative focused. It live updated the story as I wrote it and kept everything to bare essentials.

Coding

Inkle was a tool I could use which had minimal coding. But I still made little tools with my understanding so the game would work and to adapt to Inkles limitations.