INSTEAD

Home: https://instead3.syscall.ru/en/, https://sourceforge.net/projects/instead/
State: mature
Download: https://instead3.syscall.ru/en/#download, https://github.com/instead-hub/instead/releases, https://sourceforge.net/projects/instead/files/
Platform: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android
Keyword: adventure, game engine, visual novel, text-based
Code repository: https://github.com/instead-hub/instead.git (@created 2014, @stars 150, @forks 32), https://svn.code.sf.net/p/instead/code (svn old)
Code language: C, Lua
Code license: MIT
Code dependency: SDL
Developer: Alexander Yakovlev, Dmitry Marakasov, Jorge Gómez Sanz, Mehdi Sadeghi, Michael Steele, Peter Kosyh, Sam Protsenko, wimh

Engine for textographic games, which are a mix of interactive fiction, visual novels and classic point & click adventures.

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