DAAD Text Adventure Creation Resources
Books
- Aventuras AD - DAAD by Tim Gilberts - A hardcopy version of the original DAAD Adventure Writer manual.
- How to Design Adventure Games by Shaun McClure - This is a guide to designing (not programming) adventure games (Interactive Fiction) on your computer. This useful book explains how to go about turning your ideas into a solid data framework that could then be used to create a working game.
Graphics
- Aseprite - Graphics editor for making sprite animations.
- Gimp - Open source cross-platform image editor.
Manuals
- DAAD 1991 manual - The original DAAD manual in PDF format.
Sound
- Audacity - Free audio editor for creating samples sounds.
- Arkos - Open source tracker for creating AY music and sound effects.
- BBC Sound Effects Library - Free sampled sounds for background effects
Tools
- Triz2DAAD - Python script for converting Trizbort maps into DAAD source code files.
Tutorials
- DAAD tutorial for beginners Part 1 - Create a simple game.
- DAAD tutorial for beginners Part 2 - Objects and creating them.
- DAAD tutorial for beginners Part 3 - Flags and indirection.
- DAAD tutorial for beginners Part 4 - Using objects.
- DAAD tutorial for beginners Part 5 - Chances and timed events.
- Creating your first text adventure - A guide to basic game design principles.
- A world of object attributes - Object Attributes in DAAD.
- Writable object attributes with DAAD - Read/write object attributes.
- DAAD Containers - Putting objects inside other things.
- Orders and actions - How to prevent players from experiencing "exact word syndrome".
- Splitting A DSF Into Individual Files - Break the file up into its relevant control sections.
- DAAD Gemini Notebook - AI helpbook for writing DAAD games.
- Persistent Flags - Flags that keep their values between player games.
- Debugging An Adventure - Diagnostic information in your game.
- DAAD to Adventuron AI Skill - Tool to import an existing DAAD game.
Websites
- DAAD Ready Telegram group - DAAD Developers (also PAWS, The Quill, ngPAWS, etc.).
- DAAD Adventure Writer - Repository for the original DAAD Adventure Writer.
- Gilsoft - Tim Gilberts, the original author of DAAD.
- Uto's 8-bit Page - Author of DAAD Ready and lots of other tools.
- Uto's Medium blog - Numerous DAAD tutorials
- 8bitAG - Lots of information on writing text adventures.