Heritage Equals Retro Interpreting Text Adventure Game Engine. HERITAGE is a text adventure file format and game engine.

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README.md

HERITAGE

Heritage Equals Retro Interpreting Text Adventure Game Engine

What is HERITAGE?

HERITAGE is a text adventure game engine, written in Javascript, capable of interpreting .heritage files.

.heritage files, also known as: HERITAGE Game Files, are files written in the HERITAGE file format. These files are fairly simple, yet powerful, markup files, written in a format specially tailored for the text adventure game genre. It is designed to be easy to use, yet powerful enough to make serious text adventure games in.

For an example, please look at example.heritage. Documentation on how to write a text adventure game for HERITAGE is available on Read The Docs

LICENSE

HERITAGE is released under the GNU GPLv3+. Alternatively, some files are available under another license. These are:

  • jquery-1.11.1(.min).js (available under the MIT license)
  • index.html (available under the CC0 license)
  • style.css (available under the CC0 license)
  • README (available under the CC0 license)
  • example.heritage (available under the CC0 license)

The file COPYING is Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.