Ficdown Alternatives

Ficdown is described as 'Set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction. Formatting of text is done using standard Markdown, with a few Markdown elements taking on additional story-defining properties (for example, level-two' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Ficdown for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Ficdown alternative is Dream Novel, which is free. Other great apps like Ficdown are Twine, Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle and QuestJS.

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  1. StoryNexus icon
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    StoryNexus: The choice is yours. StoryNexus gives you free access to hundreds of interactive worlds, from science fiction to romance, from gothic fantasy to historical adventure.

    44 StoryNexus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. ADRIFT icon
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    ADRIFT Developer is a Windows application that allows you to create complex interactive fiction games quickly and easily. It allows you to concentrate on the story by making everything else easy, such as having all options available in dropdown lists, rather than you having to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  3. Squiffy icon
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    Squiffy is a tool for creating multiple choice interactive fiction. It's written entirely in JavaScript - the compiler uses Node.js and the games it generates run in a web browser so it can run on any system with a modern browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Undum icon
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    Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure, or Fighting Fantasy books? Where you got to choose what your character does next? Well if you think of that in a web-page you have hypertext interactive fiction, or HIF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Quest icon
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    Build text adventure games, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, and interactive fiction without having to program.

    26 Quest alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  6. TADS icon
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    TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Squeaker icon
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    Squeaker is a non-linear multi-language dialogue tree editor. Squeaker makes it easy to focus on composing and editing a game's script while keeping it all organized.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Narrat icon
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    Narrat is a narrative game engine for text-based games. Game dialogue info is written in files with a similar syntax to Ren'Py (.rpy files). Those files get loaded by the game engine which plays through them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Adventuron icon
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    Adventuron is a text-adventure authoring tool, used to create games playable on desktop, mobile as well as old computers including Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum. Featuring a web-based code editor with autocompletion and a fast development workflow that lets you play as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Raconteur icon
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    Raconteur makes writing interactive hypertext fiction with Undum straightforward and perhaps even fun. It's a wrapper library that bundles oft-needed functionality and a new, cleaner, CoffeeScript-friendly, DSL-inspired API for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. ADLENGINE icon
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    Adliberum Engine is a multiplayer compatible role-playing text adventure engine. Complete with real-time world-building commands; craft text powered games and scenarios alone or with others. Complete with world editing commands; create worlds, games and puzzles that you can...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
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