Publishing a Story

Publishing a story creates an HTML file that can opened in a web browser.

You can publish a story from both the Story Library and Story Map screens.

• In the Story Library screen, select the story, then choose Publish to File from the Build top toolbar tab.
• In the Story Map screen, choose Publish to File from the Build top toolbar tab.

Twine will then ask you to choose a file name and location to save your published file. The file name you choose doesn't affect the name of your story in its published form. In other words, if you publish a story named "My Best Story" in your library to a file named my-worst-story.html, the story will still show its title as "My Best Story" in a web browser. If you'd like to change the name of your story in its published form, rename it before publishing.

Some versions of the Safari web browser may instead open a browser tab with an address that begins with blob://. If this happens, choose Save As from Safari's File menu to save your story to a file.

Now That I Have a Published File, What Do I Do?

The short answer is that you can publish your story anywhere an HTML file can be published. You could send this directly to people using email or publish it to a web site. Some cloud file hosting services might allow you to publish your file in a web-accessible form, but many limit this functionality so that a story can only be downloaded by viewers, not directly played in a brwoser.

Two services that offer Twine-specific hosting are Borogove and Itch.io. Itch is more of a marketplace, while Borogove is more closely aligned with the interactive fiction community.