Text Adventure Development System

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Text Adventure Development System
Developer Michael J. Roberts
Publisher High Energy Software
Platforms Cross-platform
Released 1988-2013
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Text Adventure Development System is a scripting language and toolkit for creating text adventure games that was first created by Michael J. Roberts in 1988.

Versions

The first version of TADS was developed by Michael J. Roberts and published by High Energy Software in 1988. TADS 2 was released shortly afterward.

The TADS 2 syntax was based on the C and Pascal programming languages. It was released as freeware in July 1996.

TADS 3, a rewrite of the toolkit from the ground up, was released in 2006.

Games created with TADS

Title Developer Release Notes
Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Dave Baggett 1993
Zork Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels, Marc Blank, Tim Anderson, Darin Johnson 1996
Adventure 3 Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt 1999
Adventure 6 Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Picton 1999
580 Point Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Bennett Standeven 1999
701 Point Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt 2000
701+ Point Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt 2004