What is SugarCube?
SugarCube is an open-source web novel engine designed specifically for writing interactive fiction style text games and stories with text branching narrative paths. It provides authors with an easy way to create non-linear, reader-driven narratives with minimal coding knowledge required.
Some key features of SugarCube include:
- Simple markup language to build story content and structure narrative branching logic
- Variables, conditional logic, macros, and other tools for controlling story flow and reader choices
- Customizable presentation with CSS styling support
- Save/load functionality to maintain reader progress
- Export to common ebook formats
- Extensive documentation and active development community
SugarCube enables indie developers and hobbyist writers to create compelling interactive fiction games and text adventures playable in web browsers. Its relative ease of use compared to hardcoded JavaScript makes SugarCube a popular choice for creating and publishing CYOA (choose your own adventure) style stories, visual novels, interactive novels, and other nonlinear narratives driven by textual choices.