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Gruescript is an online tool and scripting language for creating web-based point-and-click text adventure games/interactive fiction (IF). Unlike most web-based IF authoring tools, which favour story-centric 'choice' games, Gruescript is designed to create puzzle-centric games in the vein of classic parser (type-in) text adventures, with relatively heavy simulation and a room-based geographical world model. The parser itself is replaced by a contextual button interface, making the games suitable for mobile devices and modern audiences, without giving puzzle solutions away before the player thinks of them.

This wiki is a work in progress and is intended to be a technical reference. Comprehensive documentation is available in docs/gruescript.md or the PDF available at Gruescript's itch.io site.

You can use Gruescript online at https://versificator.itch.io/gruescript, or download it and work offline if you prefer.

Syntax

• comments

• blocks

  • game
  • room
  • thing
  • proc
  • rule
  • verb
  • setverb
  • var
  • tagdesc

• instructions

  • commands
  • assertions
  • listers
  • iterators