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title: "text-engine"
description: "Browser-based text adventure engine with a small JSON world format and a sample game, meant to be forked and modified."
canonical: "https://vibing.inc/library/text-engine-vg-1125"
category: "Games, Juice & Interactive"
subcategory: "Interactive fiction & toys"
license: "MIT"
author: "Benji Kay (@okaybenji)"
source: "https://github.com/okaybenji/text-engine"
---

# text-engine
Browser-based text adventure engine with a small JSON world format and a sample game, meant to be forked and modified.
## Facts
- Source: https://github.com/okaybenji/text-engine
- Category: Games, Juice & Interactive / Interactive fiction & toys
- Author: Benji Kay (@okaybenji)
- Licence: MIT
- Tags: text-adventure, interactive-fiction, javascript, json
## Why it's a gem
Readable enough that beginners can extend the parser rather than fight it
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Listed in The Vibeary: https://vibing.inc/library/text-engine-vg-1125 · JSON: https://vibing.inc/api/public/library/gems/text-engine-vg-1125