Top 11 Playfic Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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.

Writing Games
Writing Playfic games may look like English, but it can be confusing. Here's a list of resources we recommend for digging into writing more complex Inform 7 games.

1. Squiffy

Squiffy 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.......

2. Inform

Inform Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.......

3. Twine

Twine Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work......

4. FOD - Text adventure (CYOA)

FOD - Text adventure (CYOA) FOD -Text Adventure (CYOA)FOD is a crazy interactive gamebook for android devices in wich you have to choose your own destiny, translated to english and spanish.As in all interactive novels, your choices will affect the story, and making wrong choices can even lead to your death.Our heroe is a ordinary......

5. TeamAssistant Groupware To-Do

TeamAssistant Groupware To-Do TeamAssistant is a tool to immediately improve the management of the teamwork of your work teamAs it does?:1.- Remains permanently connected and informed all team members by using a messaging system between smartphone or tablets, transparent to the user and whether they are online or not.2.- Creates and organizes projects,......

6. TADS

TADS TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.......

7. ChoiceScript

ChoiceScript ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.......

8. Inklewriter

Inklewriter Inklewriter is a free tool by inkle, designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the......

9. Interactive Fiction Archive

Interactive Fiction Archive The contents of the IF Archive -- including thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics -- are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present.......

10. Bound

Bound Experience prose fiction on mobile from top authors via short episodes with in-depth companion material and integrated community features.We’ll resist the urge to make the big pitch and just share that we’re taking everything we’ve learned from games and applying it to prose fiction. We’ve designed a new user experience......

11. Spatterlight

Spatterlight 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).Spatterlight also supports the Treaty of Babel standard for cataloguing bibliographic information about interactive fiction.The Spatterlight application is released under......