text-engine
A browser-based text adventure game engine and sample game (by okaybenji)
pangamebook
Lua-filter for Pandoc to generate gamebook by shuffling headers and changing to numbers (by lifelike)
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| 4 | 11 | |
| 287 | 16 | |
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| 2.5 | 2.6 | |
| about 2 months ago | 8 months ago | |
| JavaScript | Lua | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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text-engine
Posts with mentions or reviews of text-engine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-28.
- Interactive Fiction Writing On Android
- Best tool to create a classic, Scott Adams-style text adventure?
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Text Adventure Authoring Tools
These are by two favorites based on category: "Old school" interactive fiction prompt: GitHub - okaybenji/text-engine: A browser-based text adventure game engine and sample game
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need some simple game ideas to get my brain going!
Here's an example of such a game engine: https://github.com/okaybenji/text-engine
pangamebook
Posts with mentions or reviews of pangamebook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-28.
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Software to create a printable book-format gamebook?
I recommend pangamebook to generate printable PDFs and electronic EPUBs from the same source. It's a pandoc filter, so you can even choose the preferred format to type in - Markdown, RTF, Orgmode, ODT…
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A quick thought about length
I have thought of adding support for hidden variables by duplicating paragraphs to my pangamebook script. Probably as a separate script, to keep things simpler.
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Lidenbaum post competition analysis
EPUB would indeed have been nice. (Pandoc can export to EPUB. Makes it easy to batch-export all books to different formats and could also do whatever other processing you want to do. And, coincidentally (ahem), I also made a filter for Pandoc that makes it possible to automatically add gamebook cross-references and/or shuffle the paragraphs automatically... https://github.com/lifelike/pangamebook).
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Interactive Fiction Writing On Android
There are also command-line tools for writing choice-based i-f, that it sounds like you want to do, like some command-line variants of Twine. Never tried, but I suppose most of those also can run in Termux as well as on a laptop. I know my own little tool (pangamebook) works at least, because I test it regularly on my phone to make sure it works there if I ever want to edit a story away from my computer.
- How do you shuffle paragraphs?
- pangamebook: Filter for Pandoc to generate gamebooks
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Gamebook creators, what software do you use? do you know LGC3 (LibroGameCreator 3)?
I don't think I qualify as a true gamebook creator (yet?), but this is the latest tool I made for making gamebooks (the older ones are obsolete): https://github.com/lifelike/pangamebook
- Gamebook creators. What is a simple to use tool for first time GB writers?
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Gordian Book — Make PDF gamebooks from Twine
I made two different tools for PDF downloads (my old gamebookformat and my newer, barely released yet, pangamebook. Your approach is different though... My idea was always to start from a format that is static and can not have any weird dynamic things that is not possible to include in a book. But Twine is full of precisely those weird things? How do you deal with that, like if there is conditional text in a paragraph, or inlined JavaScript? For my gamebookformat I experimented with Twine-export instead, because turning a static gamebook into Twince-code is kind of doable, and there is nothing that should not be possible to convert in that direction, but converting from Twine seemed much more difficult?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing text-engine and pangamebook you can also consider the following projects:
Commander_Wars - The aim of this project is to create an Advance Wars Clone with a lot of additions customizations and modding support. For Contact Inforamtion see the wiki page. Take a view on the game.
gamebookformat - NOTE: This repo is unmaintained. See https://github.com/lifelike/pangamebook for a better tool to do this. A markup-language and set of command-line tools for gamebooks or choice-based interactive fiction for print/ebooks or playing in a browser (could be embedded in app).
flowy - The minimal javascript library to create flowcharts ✨
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
inform7-ide - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
TPIFE - Text Parser Interactive Fiction Engine
gaiman - Gaiman: Text based game engine and programming language
rage1 - RAGE1: Retro Adventure Game Engine, release 1
Acode - Acode - powerful text/code editor for android