The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #459 and Like a Hood Ornament #57: Using Twine to Make “The Rocketeer vs. The Third Reich” into a Text Adventure Game

Using Twine to make the Rocketeer fanfiction story I recently finished into a full fledged text based adventure game.

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #459 and Like a Hood Ornament #57: Using Twine to Make “The Rocketeer vs. The Third Reich” into a Text Adventure Game

https://archive.org/download/podcast-459/Podcast%20459.mp3

This week, I’m discussing the use of the program, Twine, to turn the Choose Your Own Adventure Rocketeer story I recently finished into a text based adventure game.   It’s basically a html based platform, so the end result is a .html file that you can play on a computer or mobile device.  You can even do things like add music, pictures, text entry blocks, and use variables, all of which I did to make it a bit more game-like.  Here’s the skeleton of what it looks like:

The title screen:

A few screencaps of the story: with choices:

You can now play the game in beta!  Check it out here!

Thanks for listening!

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