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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

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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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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Web Delivery

Tuktuk – RWD framework

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

TukTuk offers a set of tools for rapidly prototyping responsive Web pages. It’s a bare-bones frontend framework that comes packed with UI components

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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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Text Editor

vis – vi-like editor based on Plan 9’s structural regular expressions

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

vis seeks to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient editor combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam.

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Text Editor

Textosaurus – simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Textosaurus is a simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

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Text Editor

micro – modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.

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Text Editor

medit – text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

medit is an open source programming and around-programming text editor. It’s a GTK text editor released under an open source license.

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File Managers

Ytree – a curses-based file manager similar to DOS Xtree

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Ytree is a curses-based file manager.The software browses filesystems and archives (RAR/SPM/RPM/TAR/ARC/LHA/ZIP/ZOO).

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File Managers

ncursesFM – Ncurses File Manager for Linux

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

ncursesFM is a file manager written in C, with the ncurses library.It aims to be as user friendly and lightweight as possible, while being good looking and simple.

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File Managers

CLEX – file manager with a full-screen user interface

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

CLEX (pronounced KLEKS) is a file manager with a full-screen user interface. It displays directory contents.

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File Managers

Sunrise Commander – Orthodox File Manager for Emacs

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Sunrise Commander is a portable file manager for the Emacs text editor. It’s built atop of Dired and takes advantage of all its power.

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File Managers

lxt (linuXtree) – file manager program inspired by XTreeGold

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

lxt is a file manager program for Linux (and other Unix variants) that was inspired by the popular DOS program XTreeGold.

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