Undum Alternatives

Undum is described as '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' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Undum for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Linux, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Undum alternative is Dream Novel, which is free. Other great apps like Undum are Twine, Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle and QuestJS.

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  1. StoryNexus icon
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    StoryNexus: The choice is yours. StoryNexus gives you free access to hundreds of interactive worlds, from science fiction to romance, from gothic fantasy to historical adventure.

    44 StoryNexus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about StoryNexus as an Alternative to Undum
    Circumspector
    Negative
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    Undum is for writing. Story Nexus is for reading

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    • StoryNexus is Free and ProprietaryUndum is Free and Open Source
  2. Squiffy icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Comments about Raconteur as an Alternative to Undum
    QuestioningEspecialy
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    Raconteur is a library of Undum tools that can get someone writing their story quickly. It tries to push Undum in the direction of Inform 7 and Twine, a system that puts the prose front and center.

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    • Raconteur is Free and Open SourceUndum is also Free and Open Source
  4.  2 likes

    A minimal text adventure engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Quest icon
     4 likes

    Build text adventure games, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, and interactive fiction without having to program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  6. ADLENGINE icon
     1 like

    Adliberum Engine is a multiplayer compatible role-playing text adventure engine. Complete with real-time world-building commands; craft text powered games and scenarios alone or with others. Complete with world editing commands; create worlds, games and puzzles that you can...

    24 ADLENGINE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  7. Squeaker icon
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    Squeaker is a non-linear multi-language dialogue tree editor. Squeaker makes it easy to focus on composing and editing a game's script while keeping it all organized.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Ficdown icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Jawa icon
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    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).

    27 Jawa alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Narrat icon
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    Narrat is a narrative game engine for text-based games. Game dialogue info is written in files with a similar syntax to Ren'Py (.rpy files). Those files get loaded by the game engine which plays through them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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