32 Open source projects that are alternatives of or similar to deadline

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

Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill (Infocom)

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

Starcross by Dave Lebling

Sampler Edition of Zork (1987 Version) (Infocom)

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom)

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

Plundered Hearts (Amy Briggs) (Infocom)

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

Seastalker, by Stu Galley and Jim Lawrence (Infocom)

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

Checkpoint (Unreleased Game) by Stu Galley (Infocom)

German-Language Translation of Zork (Unreleased) (Infocom)

Infidel by Mike Berlyn (Infocom)

The MDL Programming Language by S. W. Galley and Greg Pfister

The Ink language parser and runtime implementation in Lua.

⏰ CCF recommendation conference Deadline Countdowns / Please star this project, thanks~

Borogove online IDE for IF languages

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

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

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

INSTEAD module to create games with text input

RE:INSTEAD - Lightweight INSTEAD metaparser-only player

Full C++-17 port of the 616-point version of Zork from MIT circa 1978-1981

A simple Z-Machine implementation in a single C file. Now with online multiplayer! :)

Zork implementation language