Yarn Spinner Alternatives

Yarn Spinner is described as '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' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Yarn Spinner for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Yarn Spinner alternative is Dream Novel, which is free. Other great apps like Yarn Spinner are Twine, Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle and QuestJS.

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  1. articy:draft icon
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    The first professional tool for story and game design

    Create, organize and communicate your game vision. Compose every aspect of your game design in just one highly visual and versatile solution.

    Develop interactive stories, deep and meaningful characters and item bibles coveri.

    18 articy:draft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. Moiki icon
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    Moiki is a web-based platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and exporting of interactive stories. The stories can be played on a range of devices including computers, mobiles, and tablets. Moiki provides a dynamic and immersive format for an engaging user experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Online
     
  3. Inform icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Amulet icon
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    Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

    78 Amulet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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
     
  6. ChoiceScript icon
     9 likes

    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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
  9. textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Monogatari icon
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    Monogatari is a simple web visual novel engine, created to bring Visual Novels to the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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