Squiffy is a tool for creating interactive fiction - that is, multiple choice games that focus on text and story. Players navigate through the game or story by clicking links. Sometimes these kinds of games or stories are known as gamebooks.
Squiffy is free and open source. It creates HTML and JavaScript, so you can upload it to your own website, or to a site like itch.io or textadventures.co.uk.
A player’s state is automatically saved to their browser’s local storage, so they can always pick up from where they left off just by going back to the same web page.
You can find Squiffy at app.squiffystory.com.
Squiffy creates HTML, CSS and JavaScript files, which you can upload anywhere. You don’t need to distribute your source .squiffy file - everything that is needed for the game to run is contained in the HTML and JavaScript.
If you’re using the web version, just hit the Publish button to share your game on textadventures.co.uk. You can also choose “Export HTML and JavaScript” from the Download menu, which will give you a ZIP file you can upload to any website.
If you’re using the app for Windows, MacOS or Linux, hit the Build button to create the HTML, CSS and JavaScript files in the same directory as the game file. This will also open the results in your web browser for you to preview.
If you find a bug, please log an issue.
You can discuss Squiffy on the textadventures.co.uk forums or at infiction.org (using the squiffy tag).
Squiffy is completely open source, including this documentation! The source code and documentation both live on GitHub (documentation is in the docs folder).