GlkOte: a Javascript library for IF interfaces

GlkOte is a tool for creating interactive fiction -- and other text-based applications -- on a web page. It is a Javascript library which handles the mechanics of displaying text, arranging panes of text, and accepting text input from the user.

GlkOte is open-source software (under the MIT license).

GlkOte has been tested on Safari 3 and up, Firefox 2 and up, MSIE 6 and up, Opera 9.5 and up, and Chrome 5 and up. It is currently usable on Mobile WebKit (iPhone, iPad, and Android) browsers, but awkward -- you have to keep reopening the keyboard.

You can...

Try out a demonstration of a GlkOte IF application. It is not a full-fledged IF game; it has only a trivial one-word parser. However, it demonstrates all the I/O capabilities of a typical IF game.
Try the same demonstration with a different stylesheet.
Try a very simple demonstration, which a Javascript developer could easily use as a basis for an IF (or IF-style) web app.
Try Adventure, a classic game implemented using GlkOte and Quixe.
Download GlkOte 2.3.6.
Read the GlkOte programming documentation.

Last updated November 23, 2024.

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