Top 26 interactive-fiction open source projects

Borogove online IDE for IF languages

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom)

A boundless world of interactive fiction

Linux and macOS development tools and text-mode interpreter for TADS adventure games.

JavaScript libraries for Vorple

Interactive Fiction JS library

Limnoria plugins I wrote or forked.

A template for Twine-like hypertext using inkle's ink scripting language and ink.js

Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams (Solid-Gold Edition) by Brian Moriarty (Infocom)

Plundered Hearts (Amy Briggs) (Infocom)

Checkpoint (Unreleased Game) by Stu Galley (Infocom)

Gamebook Engine is an open source iOS app for creating and playing gamebooks, a type of interactive fiction where the player gets to make decisions that influence the story.

A text-based adventure written in Rust

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates of Infocom (1989)

An easy-to-use html5 text adventure game engine. PLAY THE DEMO:

INSTEAD module to create games with text input

Seastalker, by Stu Galley and Jim Lawrence (Infocom)

RE:INSTEAD - Lightweight INSTEAD metaparser-only player

Journey, by Marc Blank, Illustrated by Donald Langos (Infocom)

Deadline by Marc Blank (Infocom)

Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill (Infocom)

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz, by Steve Meretzky of Infocom (1988)

Leather Goddesses of Phobos Gold Edition, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom)

Starcross by Dave Lebling

Sampler Edition of Zork (1987 Version) (Infocom)

The Ink language parser and runtime implementation in Lua.