Game development

Graphics engines

Text-based engines

Legacy experiments

• Jaiffa: a library for text adventures in Javascript, made for learning
• Adventure Prompt: next-gen authoring system that brings point-and-click gameplay to text adventures
• The SHTAP game engine, a.k.a. the SHell Text Adventure Player

Articles

• A look at BBC Basic (2023-02-04) — plain text version
• Scripting without scripting (2022-02-14) — plain text version
• When Python goes native (28 October 2021) — plain text version
• In dialog with interactive fiction (12 June 2021) — plain text version
• Another tiny scripting language family (18 September 2020) — plain text version
• What makes text adventures tick (11 June 2020)
• Try this INSTEAD (11 May 2020)
• Hello, SFML! (2 March 2020)
• More about tiny scripting engines (27 November 2019) — plain text version
• Alternate uses for gamedev tools (9 March 2019) — plain text version
• Tiny scripting engines for everyone (29 January 2019) — plain text version

• The texture of a game (17 August 2018) — plain text version
• Making games quickly (14 August 2018)
• Parser-less text adventures: where is everybody? (11 April 2018) — plain text version
• What tools are we missing? (20 February 2018) — plain text version
• Tell simple 2D stories click by click: an intro to Bitsy (14 January 2018) — plain text version
• The outline of a game (9 March 2017)
• Three faces of Twine (20 October 2016)
• Markers and highlighters: a gamedev metaphor (10 April 2016)
• Games anyone can make (9 June 2015) — plain text version
• Easy as blogging (2 June 2015) — plain text version

• More thoughts on portability (13 August 2012)
• Thoughts on portability (6 August 2012)
• Desktop versus browser, gaming edition (23 July 2012)
• DOM event portability revisited (19 July 2011)
• Test-driving TADS 3 (23 March 2011)
• Test-driving Inform 7 (19 March 2011)
• Optimizing HTML5 games (15 March 2011)
• Game-making tools, part two (24 January 2011)
• Game-making tools, part one (22 January 2011)
• DOM events portability (11 December 2010)

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