Top 15 Spatterlight Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application plays most kinds of interactive fiction game files: AGT, Adrift, AdvSys, Alan, Glulx, Hugo, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, TADS (text-only), Quill, and Z-code (except v6).

Spatterlight also supports the Treaty of Babel standard for cataloguing bibliographic information about interactive fiction.

The Spatterlight application is released under the GNU Public License; the interpreters and libraries it uses are freely redistributable and covered by their own specific licenses.

1. Inklewriter

Inklewriter Inklewriter is a free tool by inkle, designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the......

2. Inform

Inform Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.......

3. Squiffy

Squiffy Squiffy is a tool for creating multiple choice interactive fiction. It's written entirely in JavaScript - the compiler uses Node.js and the games it generates run in a web browser so it can run on any system with a modern browser.......

4. Bound

Bound Experience prose fiction on mobile from top authors via short episodes with in-depth companion material and integrated community features.We’ll resist the urge to make the big pitch and just share that we’re taking everything we’ve learned from games and applying it to prose fiction. We’ve designed a new user experience......

5. Twine

Twine Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work......

6. ChoiceScript

ChoiceScript ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.......

7. Terpy

Terpy Terpy app, created by Day Translations, is for people on-the-go who need immediate interpreting or translation services. Simply fill-out the appropriate form to book an interpreter or request for a translation quote specifying your needs, then click submit. Don’t worry, you will not have to wait long. You will receive......

8. Mudlet

Mudlet Mudlet is a freshly-minted MUD client, designed to take mudding to a new level.It’s a new breed of a client on the MUD scene – with an intuitive user interface, a specially designed scripting framework, and a very fast text display. Add to that cross-platform capability, an open-source development model,......

9. Playfic

Playfic Playfic is a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction. Interactive fiction (aka "text adventures") is a genre of game that uses no graphics or sound, but instead, uses text to tell a story in an interactive world.Writing GamesWriting Playfic games may look like English, but it can be confusing.......

10. Interactive Fiction Archive

Interactive Fiction Archive The contents of the IF Archive -- including thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics -- are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present.......

11. TADS

TADS TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.......

12. Kotlin

Kotlin Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript 100% interoperable with Java™......

13. win-bash

win-bash win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as......

14. Apple Swift

Apple Swift Swift is a programming language for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS apps that builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed......

15. Hack

Hack Hack is a programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.Hack provides instantaneous type checking via a local server that watches the filesystem.......