Twine, the browser-based tool for creating interactive fiction, is celebrated for its democratizing influence on game development. It is free and open-source, and requires no programming knowledge; if ...

I’ve written about many game tools here at ProfHacker, including Inform 7, Construct 2, and Inklewriter. One of my favorite platforms to work in personally is Twine. As I wrote previously, Twine is a ...

I’ve written about both Twine and Twine 2 as platforms that are very friendly to completely new developers and those who haven’t previously programmed, but Twine is also a platform that can offer ...

Those who have a few years under their belt may still remember “Choose Your Own your adventure”,”SOS” or “Book-Games”. These books consisted of a narrative told through a few paragraphs of story with ...

[The following article was written by Insomniac game designer Liz England and was originally published on her personal website www.lizengland.com. For more about the tool itself, visit the Twine ...

The future of video games will be shaped by a new generation of designers who grew up on a healthy diet of coding and game design principles. The self-taught, homebrew developers of today’s video game ...

Hello! All this week Eurogamer has been celebrating Pride with a series of stories examining the confluence of LGBT+ communities and play in its many different forms, from video games and tabletop ...

Stealthy assassins. Dashing adventurers. Gun-toting soldiers and space marines. You see these types of protagonists surface again and again in mainstream games, and as the process of producing games ...

It's almost impossible to separate the "Twine revolution"—the proliferation of small-scale interactive fiction created by nontraditional game designers—from Porpentine. The Oakland, California-based ...

[The following article was written by Insomniac game designer Liz England and was originally published on her personal website www.lizengland.com] A lot of developers (and some gamers) are kind of ...