WebAssignments1702 – Assignment Bank

Mark the Monster and Ed Sheeran return!!

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I had trouble figuring out what I wanted to do for my final 4 stars of Website Assignments. I initially wanted to create Buzzfeed quiz for the Buzzfeed Assignment, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to create an account or use an account I had created… I stumbled upon the Inklewriter Storytelling Assignment (4.5 stars), though, and decided I would give it a shot. It was actually more fun than I expected, which does seem to be a theme of mine for this class…

I had to decide what type of story I wanted to write, and I decided to continue off of the story I created connecting my three Daily Creates this week. It was really easy and simple to use. I would just type part of the story, decide on a decision the reader could make and go from there. It was a little confusing making sure I finished out all of the storylines and connecting them all together, but I think I got it. I am also hoping I did not lose any of the story lines. I was not completely sure how it all worked and what each button did. I had never used a site like this before. It reminded me somewhat of Fanfiction, maybe because it was allowing the readers to contribute to the story.

It was also interesting when I created a decision but knew which one I would choose. It was really easy to write one continuation of the story but then harder to continue off of the story I did not really want to happen. Although this is true, I had some fun writing the endings I might not have gotten to myself. It helped me see the story from different perspectives. I honestly think this was a great creative writing exercise to test different endings and push my creativity. Sure, anyone can come up with one story with one ending, but try coming up with one story that is unique and detailed enough to have three or four or more endings…

Check out my crazy story here!

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Inklewriter

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This was initially really fun but then it became very annoying lol. So my first story for this was actually a horror story and without realizing I hadn’t logged in, I wrote the whole thing and wasn’t able to get a shareable link. But initially what drew me to this was that I have never played an interactive storytelling game like this before and when I saw it as one of the assignments for this week I thought why not?

So my initial story was called ‘The Depths’ which interacts with the reader by presenting them with personal questions like if they had siblings, do they look like they’re parents, etc. But then it goes into more odd questioning like scars from childhood they cannot explain and asking if their memories are patchy from a period in their lives. As they continue through the game, the point is to lead them to a conclusion that they are not who they think they are and neither are their parents, they keep going and asking questions and each outcome of their answer becomes more and more twisted. Just as they demand answers it tells them that they have been activated, and the nightmares will soon start in order to get to the bottom of it. It’s meant to make them feel as though fate has brought them here whether they believe that or not. Then it is revealed that the reason the game is called the Depths is because in order to understand what they have started by playing, is in the very depths of their minds.

Unfortunately, I only have these screenshots of the second story I had to start after losing the one above -____- the frustration of not thinking to screenshot the first story is very, very disheartening.

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Agent Smith – Interactive Story

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http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/inklewriter-storytelling/

http://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/h8g8

Greetings, fellow agents….I have created a super secret interactive code message above! It is loosely based off of a maze I created in a different class, making it up as I go along. It has many branching paths to explore with a cool ending and an (intentional) infinite loop! Took me about an hour to create and come up with ideas on the spot to flesh it out but I actually rather enjoyed making it.

Agent Smith, signing off.

-Agent Smith

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Choose your own adventure

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I’ve just discovered this really cool website that helps you create your own Choose Your Own Adventure stories!!!

It’ll be interesting to see how I can get my students online to share this resource with them but I’ll be back. Just playing around I wrote this little story as a starting point and practice tutorial for myself.

http://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/fx6b

This opens up a lot of options for me as a writer and as a teacher. (Just brainstorming some ideas, I could have each link be written by a different student and we could write the whole story as a class and read it aloud later when it’s finished…)

Not to mention there are tons of interesting stories on this website and this cool looking “game” I don’t even know how you would play but I’ll be playing around here for awhile.

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You’re the New Sheriff

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For this assignment, I had to create a multi-level story using the website Inklewriter. This story is about you, the new sheriff in the town of Baddon, a place so tough they had to call you in from miles away. What’s going to happen, now that you’re here? You’ll have to play to find out!

I wasn’t too sure about this assignment, since writing anything with multiple endings sounds like a massive headache. In fact, it did take me at least two hours to write (and I didn’t revise it very thoroughly), but it was a lot of fun! I was initially going to use a different story that I already sort of had planned out, but that one was too linear and needed too much explanation. So instead, I thought I’d run with a bit more of the Western theme and wrote something about a sheriff coming into a bad town.

Enjoy the story! Hopefully you get the good ending.

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File #643-B1, Mysterious Objects

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Enter the world of Dr. Franklin Stenton, scientist and observer of the mysterious and unknown. He is well-known in in late 18th century New York as being a creator of…unusual, but fascinating inventions. But today, Dr. Stenton has received a package that he did not order, with a variety of objects which baffle him.

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This is just a quick little short story for the Inklewriter Storytelling Assignment (3.5 stars). I would have continued on, but, knowing me, it would only get more complicated and needlessly lengthy. So we will simply take a look at some of these strange objects which Dr. Stenton has received.

I’ve used Inklewriter briefly before, in Electronic Literature. Funnily enough, it was one of my least favorite methods of storytelling out of the group that we tried (along with Twine and Inform 7 [my absolute fave]). It’s a bit too linear for the way my mind works, and I always worry about forgetting which paths I still need to finish or link to. But for some, it’s super easy and makes tons of sense, so definitely check it out, because it’s really fun to work with.

Process:

Steve Rechter’s Tutorial is a great beginner’s guide on how to get started, and really shows how simple Inklewriter is to get working. But I’d like to expand on that, in case you’re like me and get lost in your thoughts easily, or are just trying some complicated things.

Alright, you’ve got your passage and your choices set up. Click the arrow next to one of the choices to take you to another passage/page that you can fill out.

Alright, we’re about at the same part as where Steve’s tutorial is. Now, for the story I did for this assignment, I went back to a couple of passages multiple times, creating loops for the readers to go through. To do this, create an option that suggests you’ll go back to a previous passage. In this case, setting the apple down will let you examine all the objects again.

This option will pop up and allow you to link this passage back to a previous passage. Simply click it…

…and a bar will pop up on the side, showing you all your previous passages! Click that first one.

Ta-da! You’ve created a loop!

Now, a helpful hint: You see those little red things sticking out of the sides of the posts? Those are markers. You can name them, and when you pull up the contents to join paragraphs together, they’ll be marked very clearly on the passage. This makes it so much easier when you’ve got tons of passages to look through, and don’t want to get lost looking for the right paragraph to link back to.

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The Dream

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http://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/g25g

You’re following your dreams of being the world’s greatest boxer. Today is a fight against your strongest opponent yet. Will you get scared and run away? Or will you be able to somehow manage to defeat your foe? Don’t forget the basics of boxing and try not to rush into things head on or else you may end up in a bad spot!

For this three and half star assignment, I decided to create a story based on the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES) game, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. I thought it would be cool and interesting to transform a fighting arcade like game into a choose your own adventure story. As you can see, I tried to keep it rather simple with only two choices per page of the story and I believe it came out rather well. It might be a bit tough to find the correct path, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. Like my previous web assignment, I have also created a few interactive stories with inklewriter because of the English course called Electronic Literature.

Creating this interactive fiction was fairly easy, after creating an account you can start writing your story as shown below. If you want yo add choices, there will be a “Add Option” to click on and it will create a new path for the reader to follow.

To those reading this, you should try it out! I had a lot of fun and I’m sure you will too.

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Inklewriter Storytelling

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Submitted by: Stephen Rechter

Tell a story using the free Inklewriter program found here:http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/

Inklewriter is perfectly designed for choose your own adventure-type stories. It offers numerous tools to create detailed interactive fiction narratives. It is similar in concept to the popular tool twine. Twine, however, is more focused on choice complexity and gaminess, whereas Inklewriter is more focused on storytelling. Look at the examples on the webpage and start writing a story!

I’m putting this as three stars because the difficulty really depends on the scope of the project. Very complex stories with numerous choices and plotholes can quickly spiral out of managable workload here. Don’t overstretch your ambitions in terms of choice complexity unless you want to be writing for a good long while. My example piece is a perfect example of this issue.