I’m developping a system for creating documentations in LaTeX (can be exported to PDF) and HTML.
It’s using a very conveniant lightweight language markup called txt2tags.
It’s very easy to use:
for example a chapter will be like this:
== 45 ==
Write your description below, and then, to create a choice, write this:
- Description of the choice, and a number at the end: 21
That’s all.
I’ve adapted it so we can create CYOA games (with hypertext), and export them to several formats :
- PDF (so you can print / publish them)
- HTML, for web browsers. It can also use the RAMUS alternative rendering, see: felix.plesoianu.ro/index.php/page:Software:Ramus
- EPUB, for ebook readers
- HYENA and RENPY, specialised in CYOA and visual novels (the first one is used in project AON, the Lone Wolf CYOA)
- And now it can create Inform7 code, with the help of the extension Adventure Book by Edward Griffiths
A sample game (used in the Indigo Speedif contest):
ifiction.free.fr/parchment/parch … e_death.z5
The Ramus HTML export to compare:
anamnese.online.fr/site2/textall … ramus.html
(the other ones are there: anamnese.online.fr/site2/textall … lue_death/)
The presentation on ifwiki: ifwiki.org/index.php/Textallion