2024 - Twinery

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

 Twinery

The importance of good game design choices

and the role of narrative in gaming

Open this link and press the green play button...

THINK (messy- jot it down)

Think on the following aspects of the game you just played.

Focus your thinking on these specific questions:

• How is the game presented
• What part does good narrative (story-telling) play in making the game enjoyable?
• What role does giving decision making have on the user?

Time for Talk

Discuss your thinking in groups of 2-4 (teacher decision)

Refine your responses to the best response during discussion

Give me some ideas for settings for a text based adventure game (eg - stranded on desert island)

Twinery - CLICK HERE

CLICK ME - Open Twinery.

Demonstration

1. Naming your rooms
2. Linking to rooms [[room]]
3. Testing your game

Build your game in Twinery

Choose one idea from the previous mind map activity and build your game.

Use Twinery to create your game.

Game Testing - Load your game into preview mode.

Play your partners game.

Give your partner a positve point (what is good) and a constuctive improvement (a way to make it better) - be specific (not just "make it better")

PUBLISH your game to a file

Upload your finished game to Teams.