Inform
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language (by TobyLobster)
Windows-Inform7
Front-end for the Windows version of Inform 7. (by DavidKinder)
| Inform | Windows-Inform7 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 82 | 67 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.2 | 7.3 | |
| 3 months ago | 22 days ago | |
| HTML | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Artistic License 2.0 |
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Inform
Posts with mentions or reviews of Inform.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-28.
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
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Input prompt
Anyways, back to your original question, by "use user prompts" do you mean having the player typing in "use silver key on old door" and the like? If so, Twine isn't really designed for that. You could do it in Twine, but you'd be better off using something like Inform 7 (Wikipedia), which is actually built to create games like that. However, I should note that Inform 7 is not well supported, at least not currently, with the last release of the engine being from late 2015. If you do decide to develop with it, I'd recommend using an Inform 7 IDE (Windows, MacOS, Gnome) to help you write your code.
Windows-Inform7
Posts with mentions or reviews of Windows-Inform7.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-28.
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
-
Input prompt
Anyways, back to your original question, by "use user prompts" do you mean having the player typing in "use silver key on old door" and the like? If so, Twine isn't really designed for that. You could do it in Twine, but you'd be better off using something like Inform 7 (Wikipedia), which is actually built to create games like that. However, I should note that Inform 7 is not well supported, at least not currently, with the last release of the engine being from late 2015. If you do decide to develop with it, I'd recommend using an Inform 7 IDE (Windows, MacOS, Gnome) to help you write your code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Inform and Windows-Inform7 you can also consider the following projects:
inform7-ide - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
parchment - The Interactive Fiction web app
gruescript - Point-and-click text adventure maker
inform - The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language.