Where can I make text-based games?

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Where can I make text-based games?

Inform 7 is a popular and powerful tool for creating text games, more often called interactive fiction. Its programming language is designed to look like simple English sentences, while still allowing full functionality. Inform 7 is free and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Can you still play text adventure?

Text-based adventure games (also known as Interactive Fiction, or IF) are a classic game genre where all the interaction takes place through on-screen words. Despite their primitive origins born from hardware limitations, this type of adventure is still alive today and enjoyable on modern devices.

What is Playfic?

Playfic calls itself a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (text adventures) entirely from a browser, using a natural-language programming language called Inform 7.

How do you play Zork?

How to Play Zork

  1. INVENTORY – gives you a list of items you have.
  2. LOOK – describes your surroundings​
  3. N – Moves you north (use ​E, etc. for other directions)
  4. DIAGNOSE – tells you about your injuries.
  5. GET or TAKE – remove the item and add it to your inventory.
  6. READ – Reads what is written on an item with words.

How do I make a text-based adventure game?

Text adventures are a fun, creative way to tell interactive stories, and they’re easier to make than you think!

  1. Step 1: Download Inform.
  2. Step 2: Open Inform and create a new project.
  3. Step 3: Create a room.
  4. Step 4: Run your code.
  5. Step 5: Add a room description.
  6. Step 6: Add an object.
  7. Step 7: Add another room.

What is story nexus?

StoryNexus is a web-based story authoring system by Failbetter Games, creators of the long-running web game Fallen London. StoryNexus is a system designed to create choice-based narratives that exist and are played completely online.

Is Inform 7 open source?

1.0 is now open-source.

Is Zork free?

You can play Zork I: The Great Underground Empire online here, in web browser for free!

Is there a Zork app?

Zork on mobile There’s a version for Android, too!