twinejs
Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (by klembot)
inform7-ide
A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. (by ptomato)
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twinejs
Posts with mentions or reviews of twinejs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-31.
- Show HN: Twine – Gorgeous open source multiplatform RSS app
- Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- Ask HN: Software to Develop Interactive Stories?
- Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files
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About Text based games,basically
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine.
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Harlowe 3.3.7 & Tweego
I'm trying to update tweego with the story format harlowe 3.3.7. I've copied the .json and .icon files for Harlowe 3.3.7 from here : https://github.com/klembot/twinejs/tree/develop/public/story-formats
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cRPG's often have poor writing. Why is that?
Here are 2 interactive story game engines: * https://www.renpy.org/ * https://twinery.org/
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tobyFoxIsWild
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that.
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I feel like im too dumb to make my own game
The engine here https://twinery.org/
- How to start making video games?
inform7-ide
Posts with mentions or reviews of inform7-ide.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-23.
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The Futures of Inform
For those looking for Linux packages instead of compiling themselves, there's a github build project of an earlier version this year https://github.com/ptomato/inform7-ide/actions/runs/19915523...
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Share a niche programming language you have tinkered with before
Inform 7 is a domain-specific language for creating parser-based works of interactive fiction (i.e. old-school "text adventure games"). It does the heavy lifting of parsing and maintaining the consistency of the world model for the programmer.
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How does programming language syntax affect screen readers?
Inform 7 takes this to the extreme, allowing code such as "A distance is a kind of value. 5 miles specifies a distance."
- Ask HN: Best language/framework to develop web-based text games today?
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Does anyone have examples of "dead" game genres?
Pure parser-based games have become niche, but they are still out there and, like others mentioned, have continued to evolve (see Inform 7). You no longer have to "guess the verb".
- What Languages to Learn for Interactive Fiction Right Now?
- Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity
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Gaiman: Programming language for text-based games in browser
Neat. Have you ever seen Inform? http://inform7.com/ Might offer some inspiration on future features. It's a pretty cool language that's been around for a long time and has the same use case.
- How is the method for wirting for a text advnture?, i like writting a story and then writting the variables, how can i write whit score in mind?
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
What are some alternatives?
When comparing twinejs and inform7-ide you can also consider the following projects:
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
YarnSpinner - Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
quest-driven-development
dialogic - 💬 Create Dialogs, Visual Novels, RPGs, and manage Characters with Godot to create your Game!
Skript - Skript is a Bukkit plugin which allows server admins to customize their server easily, but without the hassle of programming a plugin or asking/paying someone to program a plugin for them.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
QuestJS - A major re-write of Quest that is written in JavaScript and will run in the browser.
gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites