The Twine Grimoire, created by G.C. “Grim” Baccaris (Hi!), is an unofficial guide to using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to customize projects made in Twine 2. The Grimoire demonstrates how CSS and HTML can be used in a variety of Story Formats to fine-tune a game’s appearance and behavior, allowing users to develop new skills and create visually and mechanically unique interactive fiction.
Are 100% free to download
Discuss both Harlowe & SugarCube Story Formats
Provide screenshots and examples of code with each tutorial
Contain sets of exercises to try yourself at the end of every tutorial
The first volume of the Twine® Grimoire is geared toward common features that many first-time users are interested in working into their projects, including text styling, link styling, and passage backgrounds.
8 sections, including 6 detailed tutorials
Covers topics like using the Story Stylesheet, tag-based styling, how to organize files, and more
The second volume of the Twine Grimoire® focuses on more intermediate and advanced ways to customize a project’s stylesheet. These tutorials are suitable for intermediate users who are familiar and confident with topics and skills introduced in Volume 1.
Covers topics like creating custom buttons and CSS-based animations, using cycling links, customizing SugarCube’s UI bar, and more
📝 Other Helpful Resources
Twinery Forums (Read-Only)
Intfiction.org Twine Category
More resources, including links to Story Format documentation, can be found in both PDFs.
Twine® is an “an open-source tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories” originally created by Chris Kilmas in 2009; it is now maintained by “a whole bunch of people at several different repositories,” per Twinery.org. I am not personally affiliated with its development process.
Twine is a registered trademark of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF), which “helps ensure the ongoing maintenance, improvement, and preservation of the tools and services crucial to the creation and distribution of interactive fiction, as well as the development of new projects to foster the continued growth of this art form.”
🔮 Supporting the Grimoire
The Twine® Grimoire project is made possible by the support of my patrons on Patreon, who enable me to take the time to write these tutorials, revise them, and compile them into free PDFs. All patrons pledging $2 or more gain early access to the first draft of each tutorial as I write it, and also have the opportunity to make tutorial requests every month.
In the interest of making this resource as accessible as possible to many users, the Grimoire will NEVER have a minimum donation required to download. However, if you would like to support my work, you can do so by either donating on itch, leaving a rating or comment on itch, or pledging on Patreon.
I hope the Grimoire will come in handy for my fellow Twine wizards out there!
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