TADS is described as '3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to TADS for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best TADS alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TADS are Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle, QuestJS and Yarn Spinner.
Adventuron is a text-adventure authoring tool, used to create games playable on desktop, mobile as well as old computers including Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum. Featuring a web-based code editor with autocompletion and a fast development workflow that lets you play as...
Ficdown is a set of standards using the Markdown formatting syntax that can be used to create choice-based interactive fiction. Formatting of text is done using standard Markdown, with a few Markdown elements taking on additional story-defining properties (for example, level-two...
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.
Spatterlight is a 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).
Build text adventure games, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, and interactive fiction without having to program.
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