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Adventure Games
What are the best tools for creating text adventure games?
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Best tools for creating text adventure games
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Quest
Free
C#, JavaScript
MIT
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Twine
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JavaScript
GPL v3
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ADRIFT
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Tuesday JS
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JavaScript
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TADS
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Quest
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Graphics, sounds and video
Add pictures to your game, music and sound effects, even embed video, from YouTube and Vimeo.
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A free and open-source engine for creating text adventure games.
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C#, JavaScript
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Twine
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Free for commercial projects
Twine is based on a GPL licence. You are free to download, modify and publish derivatives - even commercially.
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No control over source
Twine's ability to be played on nearly anything also means that your story and code can be easily taken and used by others.
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Languages:
JavaScript
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Web
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GPL v3
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Cross-platform
Available for Windows and OS X.
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Limited to interactive fiction
Twine is specialized to decision-based interactive fiction. Under the hood, a Twine game is just a flowchart for page transitions; the only way to add more complex behavior is to code it from scratch in JavaScript.
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Easy to understand
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
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ADRIFT
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Easy to use GUI interface
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Tuesday JS
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Tuesday JS
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SVG support
Supports browser media formats like vector graphics in svg format, gif animations, css styles etc.
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JavaScript
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, Web
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