Playfic

Playfic: Open Source Interactive Fiction Platform

Create and play interactive fiction games with Playfic, a simple scripting language and web publishing platform for authors to share their work.

What is Playfic?

Playfic is an open-source platform designed specifically for creating and playing interactive fiction games. Interactive fiction, often shortened to IF, is a genre of text-based games that simulate environments where players control characters and influence stories through text commands.

Playfic provides an online integrated development environment (IDE) and interpreter for writing games using its easy-to-learn scripting language. It handles common IF implementation details like parsing input, managing game state, and providing save/load functionality out of the box so authors can focus on writing game content and logic.

Once complete, Playfic games can be uploaded and shared through the site's built-in hosting capabilities. There is an active community playing and reviewing games published on Playfic. It supports gameplay either online through the site or offline by generating executables for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Playfic aims to lower the barriers to creating text-based interactive fiction. Its simplified scripting language abstracts away complex programming concepts, while still providing enough flexibility for ambitious game projects. The seamless online editing and built-in publishing make it easy for aspiring authors to share their work.

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