Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
United States
Inklewriter Alternatives
Inklewriter is described as 'An easy-to-use online tool to write basic interactive stories that can be shared or converted to the ink scripting language and then integrated with Unity' and is an app in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Inklewriter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Inklewriter alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Inklewriter are Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle, QuestJS and Dedalus.
Alternatives list
editor that uses the Ink narrative scripting language and allows you to play and test your interactive (game) narrative stories on the fly.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
United Kingdom
52 Ink by Inkle alternativesink is a scripting language built around the idea of marking up pure-text with flow in order to produce interactive scripts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United Kingdom
Quest 6 is a full re-write of Quest, an interactive fiction app, to pure JavaScript. It's a framework for creating parser-based text adventures.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- United Kingdom
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Chronicler is an open source desktop application which allows users to create CYOA/MCG (choose your own adventure/multiple choice games) interactive fiction using a GUI not dissimilar to Twine (i.e. in the style of a flow chart).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
- United States
ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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
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
Australia
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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)
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- United Kingdom
Build text adventure games, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, and interactive fiction without having to program.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- United Kingdom
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a tool for writing & testing nonlinear dialogue, especially for video games, and a full featured visual editor for managing game storylines.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
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