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.