ADLENGINE - Roleplay / Text Adventure Engine
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
What is Adliberum Engine?
The Adliberum Engine (1.1.61.X) was an ambitious project which was aimed to turn stories into interactive worlds, scenarios and games. A text heavy engine that paid homage to the classic text adventure experience focusing heavily on 'data' whilst offering you full control and freedom.
This version is no longer in development.
By @LiamTwose (https://linktr.ee/liamTwose)
Video Game Designer, Developer and Producer, spanning 3 decades. Creator of #PitchYaGame and previously #30daydev.
Curator of the Global Games Industry Guide
Follow all their games at https://liamtwose.itch.io including Gamma 5: Zero a classic RTS game inspired by the originals, including Dune 2, Dune 2000, Command & Conquer, KKND, Total Annihilation, Warzone 2100 and more.
Adlengine will remain free to use in its current and final form. You may freely distribute your game/s if you choose to distribute them as free game/s or product/s (or) if you adopt a pay-what-you-want model.
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Development log
- Early look at new in-built Map Editor...Jan 11, 2019
- Adlengine - v1.1.61.X - Major changes afootJan 05, 2019
- In the meantime...Dec 23, 2018
- Full Rewrite coming in 2019Dec 12, 2018
- ADLENGINE: Using The In Built EditorMar 11, 2018
- 1.1.60.7 - CYOA / THEME / ADVANCED FILTER COMMANDSFeb 28, 2018
- 1.1.60.6 - Release NotesFeb 26, 2018
- ADLENGINE v1.1.55.3a NOW LIVE - LETS GET DYNAMIC!Sep 28, 2017
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This is pretty damn cool.
So, I got this in the racial justice and equality bundle and is there a manual for this? I have no idea what I'm doing!
Hi, it actually wasn't meant to end up in the bundle, the links went all awry and this got added by accident, its no longer in development (as support for the language it was written is was stopped)
However I am looking at potentially open-sourcing it in the future / rewriting it.
Here is a list of commands :) https://trello.com/b/EE0Z7oWX/build-your-own-adventure-with-adlengine
Ah, thank you, Liam. I'll take a look. In the meantime, I've stumbled on another program kind of similar.
Name?
Come on, OP :D don't leave us hanging. What's the name of the other program?
even I want to know! xD
See reply to Tre! :)
Sorry I didn't see this; the notification went to my spam folder!
It's called Quest. :)
You da real OP :D - thank you, I'll check it out!
If you get around to recreating (or open-sourcing) it, I would like to be notified. I hope that "Follow" is sufficient to let me do this? (I'm not that familiar with this site.) I may not have much time to play text adventures these days, but they do fill me with nostalgia, and I love that people are still developing engines to make them faster and easier than anything I could've done back when I got started programming.
P.S. Look up Inform 7; it's an incredible engine based on human-readable code.
What language was it written in?
I started something similar in C# .NET with XNA several years ago, that I dropped when XNA went down the tubes.
It was written in Construct 2. Mammoth task to convert to construct 3 sadly otherwise I would, as it contains plugins that need to be replaced / removed some of which are pretty embedded :|
Looks like this doesn't run in macOS Catalina. Is there any chance for a fix?
Anything specific causing it not to run? I only have access to PCs, although given me a thought to open source it entirely though as unfortunately development was put on indefinite hold.
I’m not entirely sure. It doesn’t give me any error aside from a generic ”The application could not be opened.” It may have to do with Catalina getting rid of 32-bit support but not sure.
Ah yeah sounds like that could be why, will see what I can do.
Oh wait ok so I made progress. I was experiencing the same issue with Catlateral Damage, and the dev suggested I try extracting from the zip using "The Unarchiver" instead of the built-in archive utility, and that worked! I tried it with ADLENGINE and it now recognizes it as runnable app, but it gives me a new error when I try to run. Looks like it's crashing. Added the crash logs to a pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/YzqY0vR2
Cool that you made progress... thank you... will investigate the error =D
I'm pretty sure the app needs to be 64 bit to work without snags if you're using MacOS Catalina.