Yarn Spinner Alternatives

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

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  1. ADLENGINE icon
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    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...

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  2. InquisitorIF icon
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    Inquisitor is an engine for browser and multiplatform Interactive Fiction works. It bares similarities to Twine while facilitating creation of worlds with locations and items.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Adventuron icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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
     
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    textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Dialogue Designer is a powerful (but easy to use) branching dialogue editor designed for story-driven games like RPGs and Visual Novels. Create complex non-linear data structures in minutes, no programming experience required!

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Spatterlight icon
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    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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Reebyte icon
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    Reebyte is a multi-platform standalone editor tool for visual novel creator and other creative interactive projects. Powerful and easy to use, where we are focused on people who doesn't have programming experience and want to create their own professional visual novel or...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  10. Chat Mapper icon
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    a tool for writing & testing nonlinear dialogue, especially for video games, and a full featured visual editor for managing game storylines.

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    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Cross-platform tool for creating visual novels and interactive stories.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  12. OpenBST icon
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    OpenBST is an application that allows you to easily read and create branching stories and text adventure games using simple text files with an extremely easy to use syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
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