Spatterlight Alternatives

Spatterlight is described as 'Native Cocoa application plays most kinds of interactive fiction game files: AGT, Adrift, AdvSys, Alan, Glulx, Hugo, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, TADS (text-only), Quill, and Z-code (except v6)' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Spatterlight for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Spatterlight alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Spatterlight are Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle, QuestJS and InquisitorIF.

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  1. Twine icon

    Twine

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    Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

    57 Twine alternatives

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    The interface when a new story is made.
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  2. Inky by Inkle icon

    Inky by Inkle

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    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

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    Inky by Inkle screenshot 1
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  4. Ink by Inkle icon

    Ink by Inkle

     8 likes

    ink is a scripting language built around the idea of marking up pure-text with flow in order to produce interactive scripts.

    52 Ink by Inkle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Ink by Inkle screenshot 1
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  5. QuestJS icon

    QuestJS

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    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)

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    • Windows
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    QuestJS screenshot 1
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  6. InquisitorIF icon

    InquisitorIF

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    Inquisitor is an engine for browser and multiplatform Interactive Fiction works. It bares similarities to Twine while facilitating creation of worlds with locations and items.

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    • Self-Hosted
    InquisitorIF screenshot 1
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  8. Inform icon

    Inform

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    Inform is a free app for creating works of interactive fiction, available for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Android. Inside it is a powerful programming language based on English language text. This redesigned website is part of the preparations for open-sourcing the software.

    23 Inform alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Source text on one side, with compiled game in other tab.
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  9. Yarn Spinner icon

    Yarn Spinner

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    Yarn Spinner is a tool for creating interactive dialogue for games. Write your conversations in Yarn, a simple programming language that's designed to be easy for writers to learn, while also powerful enough to handle whatever you need.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    Yarn Spinner screenshot 1
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  10. StoryNexus icon

    StoryNexus

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    main page
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    Gargoyle IF Player

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    Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Gargoyle IF Player screenshot 1
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  12. Adventuron icon

    Adventuron

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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

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Adventuron screenshot 1
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  13. AXMA Story Maker icon

    AXMA Story Maker

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    Cross-platform tool for creating visual novels and interactive stories.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    AXMA Story Maker screenshot 1
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  14. Narrat icon

    Narrat

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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)

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    Narrat screenshot 1
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