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JZuul is a text adventure and interactive fiction framework written in Java. The JZuul Project consists of two major parts: the JZuul Engine and the JZuul Game Editor. The Engine is an abstract base for games, providing features such as a dialog system, iteractive objects and non-player characters, multiplayer capabilities, saving and loading, and maps. The Game Editor is a SWT based GUI for easily creating XML Gamefiles running on the Engine. Those two components together form the base for easy game creation and lots of hours of gaming....

License: free

LadyStar is an episodic combination adventure game and visual novel which can be played in a web browser. It is a story about seven girls who become powerful warriors and travel to an enchanted realm in search of an ancient and magnificent legend.

License: shareware ($17.95 USD)

Additional System Requirements:

• Mozilla version 1.0 or later, Internet Explorer 5 or later or Netscape 6.2 or later
• Javascript and style sheets enabled, and also have cookies enabled
• 800x600 resolution or higher with 16-bit color

This is an officially-sanctioned translation and port of a Japanese "visual novel" game released by Stage-Nana, which tells the story of a road trip taken by a boy and a girl who are both terminally ill. Ports to Windows, Mac OS X and x86 Linux are available, all based on the GPLed game engine ONScripter. (Downloads via BitTorrent)

License: free

People of the world, you, who sit in your superficially secure third countries.

Soviet Unterzögersdorf (pronounced oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf) is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR. The enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with the surrounding so-called «Republic of Austria» or with the Fortress «European Union». The downfall of her motherland -- the Soviet Union -- in the early 1990s had a particularly bad effect on the country's economic situation.

It is a great challenge to secure survival for the small but proud confederation. External reactionary forces put the country in danger. It's a lack of respect due to a morally corrupted and perhaps even non-existing unity of the peoples. The goal of a glorious future is almost unreachable.

But there are a handful of people who don't give up on a vision for a better tomorrow. Let us tell you the stories of the brave citizens in the beautiful little country of Soviet Unterzögersdorf.

It's a story that will go into history.

License: free

The Cog Engine Project is a software suite that permits the creation of video games without any programming experience.

Video game modules can be played under Linux, Windows, or any Java-enabled browser, without any software installation.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

Zinc is the Z-machine Including Network Capabilities.

Zinc allows you to play text adventure games (also known as interactive fiction) either on your own, or cooperatively over a network. It comes with interpreters for two of the most popular interactive fiction file formats -- Z-machine games, and TADS games.

A common problem when playing adventure games is drawing a map of the game world. Seasoned players will be glad to hear that Zinc has a powerful map facility to make this process as painless as possible.

Zinc's networking capabilities are possibly unique. They enable several players to work together to try to solve a game.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Java 1.4