Videotome is a minimal narrative engine for making linear text based games.

Videotome

Meet Fred

Greaser

Windows

Android

Linux is a free and open-source (FOSS/FLOSS) Operating System. In a more precise and complex definition, Linux is an open-source OS kernel on which a large variety of Operating Systems (known as Linux distributions) are built.

Linux

Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience.

Adobe Flash Player

Unity is a game development ecosystem: a powerful rendering engine fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows to create interactive 3D and 2D content; easy multiplatform publishing; thousands of quality, ready-made assets in the Asset Store and a knowledge-sharing community.

Unity

PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.

PICO-8 games, as well as the program's interface itself, are limited to a 128 × 128 pixel, 16-color display, and a 4-channel audio output.

PICO-8

HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language 5) is a markup language used for structuring and presenting hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. It was the fifth and final major HTML version that is now a retired World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation. The current specification is known as the HTML Living Standard. It is maintained by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), a consortium of the major browser vendors (Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft).

HTML5

Bitsy is a web-based "little editor for little games or worlds" featuring limited color palettes and a small pixel canvas.

Bitsy

Godot is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine.

Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.

Godot is completely free and open source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.

Godot

Twine is a free and open-source tool for making interactive fiction in the form of web pages.

Twine

Inform

Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.

Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.

Godot Engine

Game Boy

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a mostly discontinued[note 1] multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich internet applications, desktop applications, mobile apps, mobile games, and embedded web browser video players.

Flash

A program to make games for the Game Boy line of consoles. It doesn't require coding knowledge.

GB Studio

GameMaker

Created by Failbetter Games for Echo Bazaar/Fallen London. Effectively in maintenance mode for several years, with only Fallen London itself still being actively developed.

StoryNexus

Custom HTML5, JavaScript, CSS

Ren'Py

Construct

A fantasy console for retro game development. It works with WebAssembly.

WASM-4

Nintendo Switch

Game Boy Color

POWERFUL enough for a developer SIMPLE enough for a child VERSATILE enough for any platform! RPG MAKER MV allows you to make the RPG of your dreams! This latest version includes a host of new features and export options for MacOSX, Android, and iPhone!

RPG Maker MV

PuzzleScript is an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine originally created by Stephen Lavelle.

PuzzleScript

The PlayStation 4 system opens the door to an incredible journey through immersive new gaming worlds and a deeply connected gaming community. PS4 puts gamers first with an astounding launch line-up and over 180 games in development. Play amazing top-tier blockbusters and innovative indie hits on PS4. Developer inspired, gamer focused.

PlayStation 4

Unity3D

JavaScript

Construct 3

Legacy Mobile Device

"GameMaker: Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record time and at a fraction of the cost of conventional tools!

In addition to making game development 80 percent faster than coding for native languages, developers can create fully functional prototypes in just a few hours, and a full game in just a matter of weeks."

GameMaker: Studio

Adobe Shockwave

Windows Phone

A popular series of game development tools. This engine currently contains games created with the RPG Maker programs when the version is unknown. Please move games to the appropriate engine if you know which is being used. "RPG Maker" was released for Playstation.

RPG Maker

HTML

Construct is an HTML5-based 2D game editor, developed by Scirra Ltd. It is aimed primarily at non-programmers, allowing quick creation of games in a drag-and-drop fashion using a visual editor and a behavior-based logic system.

Construct 2

Phaser

Welcome to a new generation of games and entertainment. Where games push the boundaries of realism. And television obeys your every command. Where listening to music while playing a game is a snap. And you can jump from TV to movies to music to a game in an instant. Where your experience is custom tailored to you. And the entertainment you love is all in one place. Welcome to the all-in-one, Xbox One

Browser games made with Videotome

Meet Fred

Greaser

Other engines and platforms