For this week’s sketch, I decided to adapt the story “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?”, one of my baby’s favorite books at the moment, which means I read it several times a day. I thought this story would translate well to Twine and I am also interested in what this medium could do to change/expand the interaction of the book.
I felt pretty confident tackling this assignment as I thought I knew exactly how it would work and what I needed to do. HOWEVER, I got suck in probably the dumbest hurdle and I am still here Thursday morning…
The way is it set up is that the subject in every question & the verb in every answer are hyperlinked. However, the verb is the same throughout the entire story and I can’t seem to figure out how to use the same link to generate different results. When looking it up, the internet offered a few results such as: linkreveal, linkappend, or if related macros - the latter being what I think would solve this issue.
I tried variations of the below but none of them worked
<<set $red to true>>
<< choice See "I see a [[yellow duck]]"
—
<<set $see to "">>
<<if $see is "">> [[Brown Bear|First Passage][$see = "Red Bird"]]
[[Red Bird|First Passage][$see = "Yellow Duck"]] <</if>>
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This is what it looks like right now, still working on it…
Update
October 2, 2020
Nervemind - that was the dumbest issue possible. I just needed to link the links using -> or |.
Here is the result as of now. I would like to add the pictures next.
https://aileenstanziola.itch.io/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see