If you wanna be grossed out by a bump on your hand, tempted into making a sexual mistake, or run from a pack of velociraptors, the ongoing Twiny Jam has a little something for everyone.
Whatâs great about Twine game is that anyone can make one. Seriously, even I gave it a shot. Most Twine games (experiences?) are simple affairs, and the Twiny Jam, kicked off by the designer Porpentine, are even more to the point. Nothing can be more than 300 words.
This constraint leads to some really interesting experiments in both form and execution.
Growth pretends to offer you options about this weird thing on your hand, but itâs not true.
Late For Class, in which you come across a bunny thatâs probably not actually a bunny, is exceptionally clever about how decisions reframe sentences youâre reading. Itâs more than just clicking onto branching paths, and makes the literal act of âclickingâ on a word enjoyable.
And Velociraptors in the Library begins with, perhaps, the best opening response ever to the premise of studying in the library and finding out a bunch of clever girls have shown up.
âHoly shitâ is exactly right, my friend. âEveryone runâ is some pretty solid advice, too.
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