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XVAN is a parser-based Interactive Fiction (text adventure) authoring tool.
XVAN consists of an authoring language, an optional library, a compiler and 3 types of interpreters: terminal window, Glk-window and GUI.
XVAN is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS, in English and Dutch.
This is what Cloak of Darkness looks like in XVAN.
Getting started
To get a basic understanding of how XVAN works, there is the
Introduction
document
The tutorial teaches how to develop an XVAN IF-work from scratch. This
helps to get a good understanding of the basics. However, in general you
want to use the library as a head start for your games.
XVAN IF works
Escape! is a medium length game that was entered in The Spring Thing
2019. It received badges for best puzzles and best NPC.
Bronze is the XVAN port of the Inform 7 game Bronze by Emily Short. I
made it (with permission) to test the XVAN engine and show that XVAN can
handle a medium+ size game.
License
The XVAN sources are available under the GPLv3 license.
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