Stuart Moore brought up the existence of a swell-looking cross between CYOA, text adventure and point and click - sort of like SUDS - The Next Generation. I just thought I’d post it here to increase awareness, as I find it a very nice tool - at least from the player’s point of view. Have no idea what it’s like to author for it.
And it seems that every game file can be opened in a regular text editor, so that, as the documentation says, the best documentation is opening up games at looking at their innards.
Hi all! INSTEAD 3.1.0 is out. Bug fixes, new features and… The new html5 port INSTEAD-EM (emscripten build) is available as the official new port of INSTEAD! You can run any game from our repository here: instead-games.ru/em.php
Also good news for Debian and Ubunto users! Sam Protsenko have pushed INSTEAD 3.1.2 into the Debian! Currently it is in unstable (sid) branch of distro, but sooner or later it will get into testing and stable branches! Good work Sam!
The main feature of Instead v.3 is NEW lua stack, named STEAD3. Unfortunately, the documentation is currently in Russian only. We are looking for volunteers to make English translation.
Other features:
core now is separated lib (rewritten C part);
new pixels module;
sound system imporovements;
One old new: the member of Instead-community @technix released tool for online testing of ideas and for learning Instead-basics. Name is: instead-playground. This wonderful online tool avalible here: technix.github.io/instead-playground/
Very old new, but it is interesting. Instead game multiple themes support. Put on in themes/ (directory in game)
The game on English avalible. Name is “Crash Dive!”
“Classic adventure that pits you in a race against time. As the sole survivor of a terrible act of naval sabotage, you must find a way to keep your ship out of the hands of the enemy.
This game was originally created for the 8-bit atari platform and published in 1984” instead-games.ru/game.php?ID=228
New little sci-fi game on the inetead-games.ru repo:
“The Library”.
The library is a whole planet reserved for books. But two hundred years ago something strange happened on it and now nobody flies on it. instead-games.ru/game.php?ID=283
Another episode from the adventures of the brave captain Kirkunov, the prudent Morse senior officer and the self-sacrificing crew of the BSS “Сonstellation”.
After the accident in hyperspace, the “constellation” combat spacecraft appears in the vicinity of the black hole. Before Morse’s senior assistant there is a difficult task to mobilize the crew in the face of imminent death.
Good news:
The game engine “Instead” in four games is used in the KRIL competition!
We are waiting for the links for playing the games. kril.ifiction.ru/