The ALAN Adventure Language is a programming system for writing and playing text adventure games, interactive fiction, text-based simulations.
Read more
Tag: interactive fiction
Quest – Make Interactive Story Games
Quest lets you make interactive story games. With Quest, you can create text adventure games like Zork and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Read more
FrobTADS – Authoring System to Create Your Own Interactive Fiction
FrobTADS is a full version of TADS for Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Read more
Squiffy – Write Interactive Fiction
Squiffy is an open source tool for creating interactive fiction. The games are multiple choice games focusing on text and story.
Read more
Inform – Design System for Interactive Fiction
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It’s a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed.
Read more
QTads – Multimedia Interpreter for Tads Games
QTads is an open source cross-platform, multimedia interpreter for Text Adventure Development System (Tads games, compatible with HTML TADS).
Read more
Trizbort – Open Source Interactive Fiction Mapper
Trizbort is a simple, open source, tool used to create maps for interactive fiction.
Read more
Gargoyle – Cross-Platform Interactive Fiction Player
Gargoyle is an Interactive Fiction player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.
Read more
Write and Play Interactive Fiction with Open Source Software
Interactive fiction is a form of computer game which shares many traits with fiction in book form, role-playing games and puzzle-solving. It’s one of the oldest forms of computer games. Here’s our recommendations.
Interactive fiction is a somewhat nebulous phrase. It can refer to text adventures where the player uses text input to control the game, and the game state is relayed with text output. They are known as text adventures.
Read more