Audience: Beginner (no HTML/CSS/JS experience needed)

What this shows

How to link passages together with Twine’s double-bracket link syntax, and how following different choices can lead to different ending passages.

How it works

• [[Take the left path->Left Path]] creates a clickable link. The text before -> is what the player sees; the text after -> is the name of the passage to go to.
• You can also write links as [[Left Path]] (passage name is both the link text and the destination), or [[Left Path<-Take the left path]].
• Each ending passage (Good Ending, Bad Ending) links back to Start, letting the player replay the story.

Using this in your own story

1. Give each passage a unique name.
2. Use [[Link text->Passage Name]] anywhere in a passage’s text to send the player to another passage when they click it.
3. Branching stories are just passages linking to different passages based on the player’s choice — no extra JavaScript required for simple branching.

Full source

:: StoryData
{
	"ifid":"C860097C-8F04-4476-91CB-6ABBB26A5598"
}

:: StoryTitle
Basic Links in Snowman

:: Start
You stand at a fork in the road.

[[Take the left path->Left Path]]
[[Take the right path->Right Path]]

:: Left Path
You found a treasure chest!

[[Continue->Good Ending]]

:: Right Path
You fall into a pit trap.

[[Continue->Bad Ending]]

:: Good Ending
**The End: Treasure Found**

[[Play again->Start]]

:: Bad Ending
**The End: You Lost**

[[Play again->Start]]

Download the .twee file

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