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GtkScare is a runner for Adrift games for Linux. For those who are not familiar with Adrift, it is a software used to create Interactive Fiction games, also known as text adventures. Just download some free Adrift games from http://www.ifarchive.org, download GtkScare here, and you are all set to play! Of course, GtkScare is available at If archive as well.

It is a GTK+ based GUI player for Adrift games. It uses the cross platform adrift games interpreter SCARE (written by Simon Baldwin) internally to interpret the games. That's where the 'Scare' in the name is coming from. The latest version is 0.4.

GtkScare Features
  • Supports text display features such as centering, font sizing
  • Support for inline and external images
  • Shows game readme in separate window
  • Support for input logging (If you want to make walkthroughs)
  • Support for the SCARE debugger
  • Debug using either inline debugger or a separate debugging console
  • Support for game hints
  • Command history (Accessible by pressing the Up Arrow key)
  • Automatically finds and displays text files included with games.

Screenshots


GtkScare startup screen

A Game running with hint window showing

Full screenshot of all the windows

GtkScare Downloads

Note that you need to have GTK-2.0 or higher in order to run or compile GtkScare. If you have RH8 or a newer version, then you will likely have no problems running either the executable or compiling GtkScare. The source code for SCARE 1.3.2 is included with GtkScare, so no need to download it separately.

Linux Executable v0.4 (Latest version)
Source Code v0.4 (Latest version)

Linux Executable v0.3
Source Code v0.3


Complaints, comments about GtkScare can be sent to me at pallavnawani[@]Yahoo[.]com
Remove the brackets from the email address.

Credits
Simon Baldwin and Mark J. Tilford for writing SCARE
Gaurav Nawani (my brother) for designing the GtkScare logo. His web page is here.





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