Authoring Systems

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• Games: Video Games: Adventure: Design and Development: Authoring Systems  (9)

Adventure Builder - - Freeware/shareware text adventure game authoring system for DOS and Windows.

The Alan Home - - Resources about the Alan language and tools for creating interactive fiction in it for several platforms.

Archetype - - Short description, some sample code and possibility to download the package. For DOS.

Breathing life into fantasy - - A feature on adventure aids from Sinclair User, December 1984.

Crash: Adventure writing utilities - - Article on GAC and PAW from Crash magazine, March 1988.

Game Wizard (G-Wiz) - - A tool for designing and playing text adventure and role-playing games. G-Wiz games can make use of text, sound, graphics, video, and audio.

Hugo - - Multimedia interactive fiction engine.

List of IF Editors - - Text editors and IDEs which are helpful to use when creating IF.

M.A.C. - Mystery Adventure Creator - - A tool to write classic styled illustrated adventure games. Available in English and Italian.

Quest - - A system for authoring multimedia text adventures/RPGs in Windows.

SAGE (Scripted Adventure Game Engine) Home Page - - Mark Prowler's site about the SAGE project.

StoryHarp Audioventure Interactive Fiction - - Voice-operated interactive fiction including text-to-speech, sounds and music.

SUDS - - Windows-based adventure game system for creating entirely mouse-driven text games without programming. Gameplay features include conversation trees and automatic mapping.

XYZZYnews: So you want to write a text adventuring authoring system... - - Author Alan Conroy discusses how he developed an adventure authoring system named Adventure Builder and the issues involved with writing your own.