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 Dream Novel, which is free. Other great apps like Yarn Spinner are Twine, Inky by Inkle, Ink by Inkle and Drafft.

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  1. textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Monogatari icon
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    Monogatari is a simple web visual novel engine, created to bring Visual Novels to the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4.  1 like

    A minimal text adventure engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Playfic icon
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    Playfic is a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction. Interactive fiction (aka "text adventures") is a genre of game that uses no graphics or sound, but instead, uses text to tell a story in an interactive world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  10. Quest icon
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    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
     
  11. 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
     
  12. 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
     
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