The Gamebook Engine

A software that helps you to write gamebooks
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  • Rating:
  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Winter Knight
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.freegameengines.org

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The Gamebook Engine Description

A software that helps you to write gamebooks The Gamebook Engine is a free, cross-platform engine for writing gamebooks, such as the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, or the "Lone Wolf" series. It can interpret scripts that use the Hyena gamebook format.The Gamebook Engine is free and open source; it is published under the GNU GPLv2 or later. It is written in C++ and uses Qt 4.4 and Lua 5.1. Here are some key features of "The Gamebook Engine": · downloadable · free, open source, multi-platform · uses a simple, easy to understand text format (Hyena Gamebook) · scripting with lua · displays images · audio-enabled (provided in Beta) · enables players to save and load games What's New in This Release: · Added Status/Inventory for Javascript gamebook files. Gamebook writers write an html file that tells TGE how to display the status/inventory window. · Saving the game now works for Javascript gamebooks. · Makefile will now halt if necessary development libraries are not installed. Audio can be disabled at compile time, and you will no longer require ffmppeg, openal, and alut. · Added gamebook2html conversion utility, and supporting html/css/js files. You can now convert gamebooks into html/js, and put them on the web. The TGE engine is no longer required to play gamebooks.


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