Twine Wiki

The most recent version of Twine 2.x is 2.0.8, released 6 July 2015. Downloads are available on the home page, or you can use it online! A local web version can be downloaded here, but it is not recommended.

• Twine 2.0.8 release notes
• Twine 2.0.7 release notes
• Twine 2.0.6 release notes
• Twine 2.0.5 release notes
• Twine 2.0.4 release notes
• Twine 2.0.3 release notes
• Twine 2.0.2 release notes
• Twine 2.0.1 release notes

The most recent version of Twine 1.x is 1.4.2, released 2 Jun 2014. (Windows, OS X)

• Twine 1.4.2 release notes
• Twine 1.4.2 bugs
• Twine 1.4.1 release notes
• Twine 1.4.1 bugs
• Twine 1.4 release notes
• Twine 1.4 bugs
• Versions of Twine
• Twine licenses
• Browser support

The Twine 2 Guide explains how to use the 2.0 version. Harlowe documentation introduces the new default story format and describes differences between it and standard 1.x formats.

Twine 2 CSS tutorial for Harlowe.

There are some great tutorials on Twine:

• Anna Anthropy's How To Make Games With Twine is a great, fast way to get started with Twine.
• Brenda Neotenomie's Twine 101 is an online Twine tutorial in slideshow format, perfect for teaching workshops. You can navigate using arrow keys or mouse. Right/left goes from topic to topic, down focuses more deeply into that topic.
• Dan Cox's Learning Twine blog post series is a gentle introduction to Twine as well. (direct link: parts 2 and 3)
• The Twine Reference goes over all of Twine's features in detail.
• Tutorial Videos and Screencasts

Learn about these Twine terms:

• Passage - The text of your story
• Syntax - Ways to style and format the text
• Tag - Tag your passages
• Link - From text to hypertext
• Expression - A basic unit of code
• Variable - Tracking the player's state
• Function - Special, powerful expressions
• Macro - Commands to program your stories with
• Stylesheet - Style your story with CSS
• Script - Extend Twine with Javascript
• Image - Illustrate your story
• Annotation - Notes inside your story's source code

• See the Frequently Asked Questions page for common and valuable tips.
• The Resources page curates a list of quality Twine development resources - custom macros, stylesheets, code references, and so forth.
• Visit the Twine forum for additional help.
• To extend what Twine can do on its own, see Tools and Utilities.
• Finally, Twine programmer Leon has made a number of example files showcasing lesser used Twine features.

Twine publishes to HTML, so you can place your stories on any web site. If you're looking for a place to publish for free, try one of these:

• Philomela
• Neocities
• Adventure Cow

Once you have a finished story, consider:

• Adding an entry for it on IFDB. This will get your work in front of people curious about interactive fiction, and will also cause it to appear on the twinery.org home page.
• Uploading an archived version to the IF Archive.
• Tweeting a link to @twinethreads– we'll retweet you and help spread the word!

Because of spam, edits to the home page are restricted to specific users. If you'd like to make a change to this page, please request editing permission for this page by emailing wiki at twinery dot org.