Tweebox

Create your own interactive stories with Tweebox, the same tool used to produce the stories on this Web site. Write with your favorite word processor; build and test with a simple desktop application. It's easy and fun.

No Code Required
Tweebox uses a few simple notations to indicate how a story is structured. Two colons set off a new section of a story, and double brackets link them together. If you've ever edited a story on Wikipedia or another wiki, you're way ahead of the game. You don't need any programming skills to put together a story. (Check out an example source file and its playable version.)

Free As In Free
Stories you create with Tweebox can be used however you'd like. Because the final output is a single, small Web page, you can easily email a story to friends, post it on your Web site, or even distribute it on a CD-ROM. (You could use a floppy disk just as easily — stories take up that little space.) You can also use your stories for commercial purposes without restriction.

Tweebox is free to download and use, and you can share it with anyone you like. You can even modify the Tweebox compiler, provided you release your own version under the GNU Public License.

Propellerheads Welcome
If you like working with a command prompt, you can also use twee, the command-line version of Tweebox. It's easy to incorporate into the toolchain you know and love, and syntax modes are available for some common text editors.