Text Adventure

This is an effort to fully recreate the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game in the Perl scripting language. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Yasmina's Quest is an open source game (and motor) mix of graphical point-and-click adventure and text adventure written in PHP and DHTML (javascript, CSS and HTML) that uses mouse and keyboard optionally.Tested under BeOS, Linux, *BSD, Windows, etc. Platforms: PHP

GUI Colossal Cave is a Windows GUI text adventure game based on the original adventure by Crowther and Woods with some sound effects. The original colossal cave game was the historic first text adventure game in which the computer would simulate and describe a situation and the user would type in... Platforms: Windows

Yasminas Quest is an open source game (and motor) mix of graphical point-and-click adventure and text adventure written in PHP and DHTML (JavaScript, CSS and HTML) that uses mouse and keyboard optionally. Yasminas Quest was tested under BeOS, Linux, *BSD, Windows, etc.. Get PunkPong at... Platforms: *nix

JZuul is a text adventure and interactive fiction framework written in Java. The JZuul Project consists of two major parts: the JZuul Engine and the JZuul Game Editor. The Engine is an abstract base for games, providing features such as a dialog system, iteractive objects and non-player... Platforms: Mac

Magnetic is an interpreter for the games written between 1985 and 1991 by Magnetic Scrolls, a text adventure producer based in London, England. Platforms: Mac

The Abandoned Castle is a text-adventure game, meaning that you control your character by typing commands; for example, if you're in a room with a door, you can type "open door" to open the door.The storyline: You decide to explore an old, abandoned castle in the southeast part of town. It's... Platforms: Mac

The 4-World Planet is a text-adventure game, meaning that you control your character by typing commands; for example, if you're in a room with a door, you can type "open door" to open the door.The storyline: You are an astronaut. You go on a solo mission to a planet that was recently discovered.... Platforms: Mac

This is Catle Hero, a small text adventure/rpg i'm making to gain a bit more skills in programming. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux

tadsdev is a plugin for Eclipse IDE which adds the support for TADS (Text Adventure Development System) v3. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

'The Neverending Tale' is a web-based text adventure game for kids. It is essentially a choose-your-own-adventure book where all pages are contributed by prior readers. Implemented in perl and C. Working beta; public version has 50,000 active pages. Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

PHPAdventure! is a web-based interactive fiction (text adventure) engine written in PHP. Taking advantage of the web as a medium, PHPAdventure! has discarded the parser which formed both the groundwork and the Achilles' heel of traditional IF systems. Since the system is currently in alpha-state,... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

New Adventure Shell project is an adventure shell script. The New Adventure Shell is a script that turns your shell into a text adventure game. It ought to pose as little restrictions on normal shell use as possible, and allows as many adventure commands as possible. The script is intended... Platforms: *nix

La villa del seis is a multiplatform point-and-click graphical adventure in PHP and DHTML. Also, you can play it like a text adventure (interactive fiction) on a text browser or without javascript. You can use the motor to make your own adventure Platforms: PHP

PHPAdventure! is an interactive fiction engine written in PHP that allows game programmers to easily create point-and-click web based text adventure games. May 2006: I'm not maintaining this anymore. If you want to take it over, let me know. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Dead Souls MUD Library is a multi-user, text based adventure creation system. Dead Souls project allows the user to build adventure games which can be played over the Internet simultaneously by many people. It is designed for both experienced and beginner MUD admins.. An actively maintained... Platforms: *nix

The original adventure game, dating back to about 1976. Also known as just Adventure or Advent (for ancient computer systems that only allowed six character names), it is a text-based game. Let your imagination provide the 3-D images. The original 350 point version of Crowther and Woods was... Platforms: Mac

Text Inserter inserts pre-defined pieces of text into any application, making text entry a lot quicker and easier. Once the text entry has been defined (takes 30 seconds) it will be inserted wherever the cursor happens to be by one of 3 methods: - clicking a button on the floating bar. - using... Platforms: Windows

HTML To Text utility converts HTML documents to simple text files, by removing all HTML tags and formatting the text according to your preferences. Features: * HTML To Text automatically removes all tags and scripts from the document. * The remained text is formatted according to... Platforms: Windows, Other

Make your site come alive! Create slide shows with a fractal transition effect with the Cloud Text Applet. Cloud Text Applet can run in the middle Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix