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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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