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INSTEAD - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter (by instead-hub)
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RE:INSTEAD - Lightweight INSTEAD metaparser-only player (by instead-hub)
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| instead | reinstead | |
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| 18 | 4 | |
| 211 | 17 | |
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| 7.5 | 3.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
instead
Posts with mentions or reviews of instead.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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10 year old wants to step up from Scratch and learn "word coding" - Book or other recs?
Adventures can be saved and launched locally using the player on your smartphone or PC.
- INSTEAD 3.5.1 released!
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People who make IF games: what do you love/hate about the engine you use?
It looks like you are describing the Instead Engine and some additional modules to it.
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How would you all improve IF (discussion)?
I think it will be clearer from the documentation.
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Have people here tried building there world as a text based adventure game?
Well, I read this - https://github.com/instead-hub/instead/blob/master/doc/stead3-en.md Creating a game through the modelling of the world.
- Writing Process for Interactive Fiction
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Is there a fun way to learn programming?
Happy Adventure Building! If you suddenly want something more powerful - https://github.com/instead-hub/instead/blob/master/doc/stead3-en.md
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Making an SCP text based adventure - Any suggestions?
For example INSTEAD Engine - docs, game examples.
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I am making and Undertale text-based adventure game
Huh, this is a task for an advanced programmer. But. You can take a ready-to-use engine for text games if your task is to make the game, and not to learn a programming language. For example: Instead Engine - docs, game example (download, play online)
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Trying to make a class system for a text based game, is this a good way to do it or is there a better way (I'm a noob with classes)
I think you should look into a text-based game engine that already has all the classes you need to implement. For example Instead Engine. The documentation for this engine gives a good idea of the required framework. In addition, the minimal console implementation of this engine contains only 100 lines of code.
reinstead
Posts with mentions or reviews of reinstead.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-05.
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Convenient game development on Metaparser-3
Secondly, we will launch the game under development in the fresh RE:INSTEAD . Lightweight parser launcher, nothing more, just you and the text. So download and install (unpack in a convenient directory) a fresh build of this suitability. And, which is important for Windows development, we add the path to reinstead.exe to PATH.
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"Imma", a game for "Train-6" gamejam.
Also available in the RE:INSTEAD - all-in-one parser games bundle.
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Re:instead 0.5 with tts support
As usual, you can download the Windows / Linux and Android versions from github: https://github.com/instead-hub/reinstead
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Working on an uncompromisingly simple metaparser player. At the moment works in: Linux, Windows and Plan9.
Hooray, reinstead is released https://github.com/instead-hub/reinstead/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing instead and reinstead you can also consider the following projects:
permafrost-engine - An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
9aout - Running native amd64 Plan 9 binaries through Syscall User Dispatch (Linux 5.11+)
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
instead-launcher-android - INSTEAD Launcher is a powerful interactive fiction engine ported to Android
instead-cli - INSTEAD interpreter for developers
asyncglk - AsyncGlk: A Typescript Glk library
sense-hat-parts - individual programs to read sensors on the Pi Sense Hat for Plan9
etlegacy - ET: Legacy is an open source project based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released in 2010 under the terms of the GPLv3 license.