IF for education/kids ?

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Good beginner games

I am sorry, if the subject has come up before, but i cant seem to find anything. Anyway; What good and beginner friendly games would you recommend? Just completed Lost pig, now that was a blast:-)

Good games for beginners?

I was just thinking, maybe we ought to try and compile a list of ‘newbie-friendly’ games, so that anyone coming here will have an idea of where to start. I believe the first IF game I played was HGttG, which in hindsight I would not recommend to someone just starting out. (That babelfish puzzle is murder, though luckily I stumbled across the rest of the IF Community while looking for a solution. ) Off the top of my head, I can think of Dreamhold and City of Secrets as being good …

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Kid-friendly non-spatial Twine games?

As part of my job*, I’m planning a pair of weekend-afternoon workshops on interactive narrative for middle-schoolers (approximately 11- to 13-year-olds). The first one will focus on Twine, and we’ll be talking about branching narratives and variables. I intend to send out a pre-workshop email with some examples of stories the kids can play in advance to get an idea of the kind of thing we’ll be talking about. I’ll definitely include Town, because it’s very approachable and open-source. But i…