Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online


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 Yarn Spinner.


JAWA is an online tool which makes it possible to create, free, easily and quickly, point'n'click type investigation / adventure games, playable directly in the browser or in the form of mobile apps (smartphones & tablets).




TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.


