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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Squiffy – Write Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Squiffy is an open source tool for creating interactive fiction. The games are multiple choice games focusing on text and story.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Inform – Design System for Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It’s a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

QTads – Multimedia Interpreter for Tads Games

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

QTads is an open source cross-platform, multimedia interpreter for Text Adventure Development System (Tads games, compatible with HTML TADS).

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Trizbort – Open Source Interactive Fiction Mapper

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Trizbort is a simple, open source, tool used to create maps for interactive fiction.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Gargoyle – Cross-Platform Interactive Fiction Player

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Gargoyle is an Interactive Fiction player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

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Gaming Chat

Discord – proprietary VoIP software designed for gaming communities

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Discord is a proprietary freeware voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) application designed for gaming communities.

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Gaming Chat

TeamSpeak – proprietary voice-over-Internet Protocol software for gamers

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

TeamSpeak is a proprietary voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) application for audio communication between users on a chat channel, similar to a telephone conference call.

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Game Engines

Cocos2d-x – game framework written in C++

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Cocos2d-x is an open-source framework for building 2D games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications.

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Game Engines

MonoGame – framework for creating powerful cross-platform games

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes. Create, develop and distribute your games your way.

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Game Engines

Urho3D – cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Urho3D (originally known as Bofh3D) is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++.

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Game Engines

T-Engine4 – roguelike game engine

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

T-Engine4 (TE4 for short) is an open source roguelike game engine operating in Lua and available for all major platforms.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

bsnes – standalone SNES emulator using the higan SNES core

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

bsnes is a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator. The emulator concentrates on performance, features, and ease of use.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Snes9x – freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

ZSNES – free Super Nintendo emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

ZSNES is an emulator of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It can run most of the SNES games at full speed with sound and special graphic filters.

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Video-Emulators

Mesen – high-accuracy NES and Famicom emulator and NSF player

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mesen is a cross-platform NES/Famicom emulator for Windows and Linux.

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Video-Emulators

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) – portable NES/Famicom emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is an NES/Famicom emulator. It’s a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community.

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Video-Emulators

higan – Nintendo multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

higan emulates a number of classic video-game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.

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Video-Emulators

Mupen64Plus – N64 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games.

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Video-Emulators

Dolphin – GameCube and Wii emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii.

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Video-Emulators

SameBoy – user friendly Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C.

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