Interactive Fiction
Interactive fiction (IF) is a form of digital storytelling where the reader participates by making choices that influence the story.
Playing Interactive Fiction
- Engagement: Students are more involved because they make choices and shape the story themselves.
- Critical reading: Requires close reading and careful attention to details, clues, and subtle differences that influence the direction of the story.
- Critical thinking: Students must evaluate options, anticipate consequences, and make decisions that directly affect how the narrative unfolds.
- Ownership: Players take control of the narrative, creating a more personal learning experience as their choices lead to unique outcomes and paths.
Creating Interactive Fiction
- Creativity: They create their own characters and storylines, often with multiple outcomes.
- Meaningful language use: Writing for an audience makes the task more authentic than standard exercises.
- Differentiation: Tasks can vary in difficulty, from simple stories to more complex branching structures.
- Collaboration: Students work together and share ideas to build a story.
- Digital skills: Basic coding skills acquired if the TWINE platform is used.
21st Century Skills Framework (P21)
Swipe Right For Romeo
Swipe Right for Romeo is a work of interactive fiction I created to inspire gymnasium students to develop their own interactive stories using the five-point plot structure.
How to Explore in Twine
- Go to Twine.org
- Click “Use in your browser”
- Import the file
'Swipe Right' as displayed in the Twine interface.
