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I could see immediately I wouldn’t be able to set up the puzzle in the same way I did it in the previous engine, with the keypad input.

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Speaking of variables, they were quite important when I tried to set up the password puzzle of my project in this engine.

And the engine’s documentation helps you a lot regarding this topic. Of course, it has some expressions to use in mathematical operations and to show variables, for example, but this is inevitable. There is no scripting in the engine whatsoever, which is quite incredible for the number of things it can do. So, if you try to type “look (object)”, there you go, it already shows you the item’s description without you having to manually tie that command to that action. Active community.ĬONS: It might take some work to implement things like input boxes, items, encounters or just change the story’s appearance, since those features rely on JavaScript to work, making it difficult for those who don’t know the language or coding logic in general.Īnother example: inside the locations, you can place dynamic or static objects, give them descriptions and preview the project right away. Easy to make interactive stories with images and dynamic gameplay. Twine exports your story as a compact HTML file, so anyone can play it on a browser, or you can host it on your website. If you want to take a look at Twine’s version of my project to play it or to look at the structure to understand it better, you can view it here and open it as a project on Twine. You can access it through their official website’s home page. There, you can discuss the engine with other users and even ask for help on specific situations. Twine has an active community, and if you decide to dive into it, joining their official Discord server might be a good idea. You can know more about Twine’s story formats here. And for coders who have experience with JavaScript development, there is the Snowman format. You also have SugarCube, that was the default format for Twine 1. The story format I use is the Harlowe format, which is the default format for Twine 2 more beginner-friendly and requires only optional scripting.

However, Twine has different versions, so to speak, called story formats, each one having different features, like different macros, etc. Then, of course, I started with the IF engine I’m most familiar with the same one I mentioned in my previous article… The adventure consists of navigating through four different rooms, located underground, and solving the puzzle that connects them to find the way out. I created a very simple text adventure called 4 Rooms and tried to replicate it in all the engines I tested to measure how difficult or limited the interfaces were. So if you want to know more engines, be sure to check out the list. It contains many engines made for the text adventure genre, but I selected the ones I like more to talk about here.

The source I used to access these game engines was the Engine List, from The Interactive Fiction Wiki.

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The purpose of this particular article is to introduce IF engines to beginners who (like myself) can’t code to save their lives, or even to experienced devs who want to experiment with a new genre, which means the engines I chose to list here require no coding (or support optional coding) and are very intuitive to use, in my opinion, while still offering a good range of features. Depending on your reactions and suggestions I can keep talking about other aspects of a text adventure game’s development.

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So, I decided to make a series dedicated to IF game design and maybe some tutorials. Since my first text adventure-related article, some readers asked me to write another one talking specifically about game engines designed for Interactive Fiction.