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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2015, 08:43 AM »
Hello, I may suggest also ZTAB (sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/). This is a free software.

Here are the functionnalities that he embeds :

* Build text adventure games and gamebooks
* Text, image and sound based aventure games.
* Simple graphical game edition (no script)
* Design as you play : you play, and if you want to enhance, you add new text and conditions and you continue to play. Nothing simpliest !
* As you design, ZTAB points out your errors.
* Generate an HTML game and upload it to your website.
* Generate a book and print it.
* Confidentiality mode
* Handle Huge projects
* You can import and export Twine and Advelh, Renpy, etc... projects too.

https://sites.google.com/site/ztabsoft/

projects and old versions here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/
« Last Edit: October 17, 2015, 05:23 PM by Ztab »

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2015, 08:50 AM »
Looks nice, thanks for sharing  :up:

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2016, 08:13 PM »
new version for those who would be interested that give the opportunity to define graphically AND and OR conditions

https://sites.google.com/site/ztabsoft/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2020, 05:14 PM »
Hello,

New version 2020, with great MMI modification, some new functionnalities, and bugs correction.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/files/latest/download

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2020, 04:17 AM »
Hey - you guys who have used Inform7 - I read through the docs, but can't find how it outputs.  Does it generate html?
http://inform7.com/index.html

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #30 on: July 02, 2022, 10:48 PM »
New version of Ztab 2022.0.1.0

Several features have been added
* DOCX Word documents generation
* Windows Games generation
* Simulation function to compute the level of difficulty of your adventures : Fluidity, Wandering, Reachability of your endings, etc...
* Themes management enhancing
* Experimental at that time : inventory management

You can get it here : https://sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #31 on: July 03, 2022, 12:20 AM »
Nice!  :up:

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #32 on: March 01, 2026, 05:13 PM »
Hello there ;)

With the new version 2026 of Ztab, you can generate your adventures as Powerpoint presentations, for whose who would be interested !

You can get it there : https://sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/

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Re: software to write gamebooks ?
« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2026, 08:49 AM »
I’m interested in this too. I’ve been looking for software that makes it easy to structure gamebooks without requiring too much technical knowledge. It would be especially useful if it supports branching paths, choices, and an easy way to preview the final result. Has anyone here tried a tool they would recommend?

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