HTML Tads

HTML Tads is a development tool aimed at creating interactive fiction for the web, bringing the wonderfully old-fashioned pleasure of text adventures into a more modern environment. Rather than drawing elaborate landscapes or filling the screen with explosions, it gives authors the machinery needed to build stories, locations, objects, conversations, puzzles, and branching situations through text. Its connection with TADS makes it particularly interesting for writers who want more control than a simple interactive-fiction editor can provide. The interface may feel decidedly technical today, but that is part of its charm: this is software for people who would rather construct a virtual world than merely consume one. There is something pleasingly direct about typing commands and watching an entire adventure emerge from words, logic, and a healthy supply of imagination.