How to Create Free Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Games Online

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Episode 50: How to Create Online Choose Your Own Adventure Games

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Here are 3 different resources students can use to create online choose-your-own-adventure games.

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Why Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Projects Work for Homeschoolers

These projects are great for:

• • creative writing
  • history and literature projects
  • independent research
  • project-based learning
  • technology integration
  • co-op presentations

1. Text Adventures

Best for: beginners and middle school students

Text Adventures actually has 3 different options to create choose-your-own-adventure games. There is the option to download software, but I have always used the online version.

Initially, you are asked to select between Quest and Squiffy. Select Quest (Squiffy is a little more complicated and only text).

Then you can start creating a Quest game. Now select ‘Gamebook’ in the drop-down option rather than text adventure. The latter allows you to create rooms with objects that can be manipulated. If your children enjoy the easier option, they could progress to this one. And this video explains how to get started.

But I suggest they start with a Gamebook type. In this version, they create choices for whoever is playing and the player simply clicks on their choice to continue down a specific path. This version allows them to add in graphics, audio, and video.

In my online US History class students research a Native American tribe pre-1492 and then turn their research into a game which the other students can play. Here are some you and your children and try.

Cherokee Tribe Game
Igloos and Ice-Fishing
A Day with the Seneca Indians
Shoshone Adventure

2. Google Slides

Best for: homeschoolers already using Google tools

Hyperlink Google Slides to other Google Slides to create a choose-your-own-adventure. See the show notes for the episode I did on Google slides for a video explaining how to do it.

3. Twine

Best for: advanced students or coding-curious teens

For a real challenge, students can use Twine which allows them to create more complex text adventures and even incorporate some coding if they choose to.

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