Games+Learning+Society 12 Conference

This workshop will teach participants how to use Twine (twinery.org), a platform for making text-based games. Twine is an accessible game design platform that mostly relies upon plain written text, with a few programming constructs for more advanced features. In this workshop, participants will be given a brief introduction to the tool and how to use it, then will be free to work in teams or alone to create a short game and publish it to the web. At the end of the session, participants will play each others’ games, then as a group we will discuss thoughts about the tool and implications for learning with it.