Trizbort

Trizbort is a simple tool which can be used to create maps for interactive fiction.

Over the years a number of styles have evolved for interactive fiction mapping. Trizbort focuses on creating maps in only one of these styles, as popularised by Infocom: labelled boxes for rooms, with lines connecting them.

Whether you're playing or writing interactive fiction, mapping can be invaluable. Trizbort is just one of many mapping tools for interactive fiction: I hope you find it useful, but you may want to check out the others too.

Features include:

A simple point and click interface to create rooms, resize them and connect them together; Smart* lines which snap to the cardinal** points on room edges; Rooms can be marked as dark or light; dark rooms on the map have shaded corners; A list of objects per room, which can be "docked" to any room edge or placed inside the room; Customisable colours, fonts and drawing styles; A "hand-drawn" line style for that back-of-an-envelope feel; Title, description and author text which will be saved with the map; Export to PDF files and PNG images for posterity or printing; Multiple selection; Single keypress keyboard shortcuts; An XML file format in case other tools wish to generate or read Trizbort maps.

• Not that smart. ** More or less cardinal. In fact Trizbort adds some decidedly non-cardinal points to make things easier.