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The best Game Development alternative to gist-txt is Ink by Inkle, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to gist-txt and nine of them are Game Development Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Game Development Tool alternatives to gist-txt are Inky by Inkle, QuestJS, Dedalus and Yarn Spinner.

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gist-txt alternatives page was last updated Jul 29, 2023
  1. Ink by Inkle icon
     8 likes

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

    48 Ink by Inkle alternatives
    Ink by Inkle screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Ink by Inkle Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Support for scripting
    4.  Works Offline
    5. Unity icon  Unity Integration
    6.  Visual Novel
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  2. Inky by Inkle icon
     2 likes

    editor that uses the Ink narrative scripting language and allows you to play and test your interactive (game) narrative stories on the fly.

    47 Inky by Inkle alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Inky by Inkle Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Support for scripting
    5.  Interactive storytelling
    6.  Visual Novel
    7. Unity icon  Unity Integration
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  3. QuestJS icon
     2 likes

    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.

    45 QuestJS alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux

    QuestJS Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  No registration required
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  4. Dedalus icon
     2 likes

    Dedalus is an authoring system for generating Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) narrative. It is similar to other creation tools like Twine, Undum or Varytale.

    24 Dedalus alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Dedalus Features

    1.  No registration required
    Discontinued

    Multiple links within the Readme are 404'd, including the example game's page and the starter pack download. Also, the GitHub hasn't been updated since 2019.

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    • Dedalus is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to gist-txt.

    • Dedalus is Free and Open Sourcegist-txt is also Free and Open Source
  5. Yarn Spinner icon
     3 likes

    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.

    44 Yarn Spinner alternatives
    Yarn Spinner screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Moiki icon
     1 like

    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.

    25 Moiki alternatives
    Moiki screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Online

    Moiki Features

    1.  No Coding Required
    2.  Single player
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Export to HTML
    5.  Interactive storytelling
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    • Moiki is the most popular Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to gist-txt.

    • Moiki is Free and Proprietarygist-txt is Free and Open Source
  7. ifSpace icon
     1 like

    An interactive Fiction Space Engine and application for creating and playing Interactive Fiction games (e.g.: Colossal Cave, Zork, Choose your path books) with no coding required.

    25 ifSpace alternatives
    ifSpace screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    ifSpace Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Single player
    4.  No Coding Required
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Interactive storytelling
    7.  Mobile friendly
    8.  Interpreter
    9.  Fanfiction
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  8. Undum icon
     2 likes

    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.

    24 Undum alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Undum Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Single player
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Client-side
    6.  Support for HTML5
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  9. Raconteur icon
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    Raconteur makes writing interactive hypertext fiction with Undum straightforward and perhaps even fun. It's a wrapper library that bundles oft-needed functionality and a new, cleaner, CoffeeScript-friendly, DSL-inspired API for...

    24 Raconteur alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Raconteur Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Single player
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Support for MarkDown
    5.  NPM
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