Description
Play as the Tortoise and race at your own pace through a text-based interactive retelling of Aesop’s fable The Tortoise and the Hare.

I outlined and wrote this Twine prototype in a weekend for Susan O’Connor’s Game Writing Masterclass I as a branching interactive storytelling exercise. I learned tons through this project by designing the branching structure around three approaches: enabling the player to express different parts of the tortoise's personality, providing choices to the player to observe some of the beautiful surrounding area, and layering in a few choices that impact the end result of the race. I'm definitely interested in contributing to projects that utilize more impactful and complex branching narrative structures in the future.

Play at https://jwgiba.itch.io/slow-and-steady.

Cover image credit to aldabra tortoise by Hey Rabbit from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0).