Glk/TADS

TADS
Engine developer	Michael J. Roberts, dreammaster
Companies that used it	various
Games that use it	See Games
Date added to ScummVM	2018-12-09
First release containing it	None

About

TADS is the Text Adventure Development System, an authoring system for creating text adventure games.

Games

• 1893: A World's Fair Mystery
• 2044: Space Troopers
• += 3: A Logical Adventure
• Aayela
• The Adventures of Helpfulman
• Alien Abduction?
• Above and Beyond!
• All Hope Abandon
• All Alone
• Amissville
• The Apprentice
• Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Cliches
• At Wit's End
• At Wit's End Again
• Babel
• The Backlot
• Bad Machine
• Ballymun Adventure
• The Beetmonger's Journal
• Blighted Isle
• Bmissfille
• The Broken String
• Castle of Doom
• Cerulean Stowaway
• The Coast House
• Cloak of Darkness
• CoffeeQuest 2
• Colossal Cave Adventure (Including Adventure converted by David Baggett, Adventure 3 converted by Bennett Standeven, 580 Point Adventure converted by Bennett Standeven, Adventure 6 converted by David Picton, 701 Point Adventure and 701+ by David Picton)
• Common Ground
• Comp02ter Game
• Cook Off
• The Cruise
• The Damp Camp
• Danger School
• Dark Angel
• Dead Man's Party
• Deanna
• Dear Brian
• Deep Space Drifter
• Depravity Bites
• The Devil in the Details
• Dexter Dixon
• Diabolical
• Die Vollkommene Masse
• Ditch Day Drifter
• Don't Fire Until You See The Yellows Of Their Niblets
• Dr Who and the Ribos Operation
• Drool
• Dungeon (the MIT Zork, converted to TADS by Darin Johnson)
• The Ebb and Flow of the Tide
• Ecdysis
• Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker
• Elizabeth Hawk's Forever Always: a Romance Novel Game
• The Elysium Enigma
• Enhanced
• Escape
• Escape from the Arboretum
• Escape from the Crazy Place
• Eterna Corp
• Everybody Loves a Parade
• Exactly 14 syllables... er, gulps!
• Excuse Me, Do You Have The Time?
• Exhibition
• Fake News
• Firebird
• Finding Martin
• First Things First
• FooM
• Four in One
• The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man
• The Frenetic Five vs. The Seven Deadly Dwarves
• The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang
• Friendly Foe
• Frobozz Magic Support
• Frustration
• Fusillade
• The Gate
• GC: A Thrashing Parity Bit of the Mind
• The Golden Fleece
• Gifts of Phallus 3: The Valkin War
• Generic New York Apartment Building
• The Golden Skull
• Galactic Peace
• Gun Mute
• To Hell in a Hamper
• HERO, INC Part One: "Calling All Heroes"
• Hide and Seek
• The Holy Grail
• Home Open
• The Horror of Rylvania
• The House
• House
• I don't remember why this game is called "Onion"
• I'm Gonna Take You To The Video Bar
• In Darkness
• In the Wilderness
• Indigo
• Inheritance
• Insanity Cubed
• The Island of Infinity
• The Isle of the Cult
• It
• It's a Match!
• It Could Only Happen To You
• Jack's Adventures, or, On The Run in Fairyland with a Golden Goose and a Magic Guitar
• John's Fire Witch
• The Journey of the King
• Kaged
• Katana
• Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without having your parents inspect it first
• Kissing the Buddha's Feet
• Kitchen Encounters
• Korenvliet
• A Lady in Waiting
• Last Minute Gift
• The Legend Lives!
• The Lesson of the Tortoise
• Lethe Flow Phoenix: A Flight of Fantasy
• The Light: Shelby's Addendum
• Look Around the Corner
• Losing Your Grip
• Lost
• Lost New York
• Lydia's Heart
• Macrocosm
• Magic Realms: The Sword of Kasza
• Maiden of the Moonlight
• The Mansion or The Tale of the Adventurous Thief
• Martha's Big Date
• A Matter of Importance
• Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus
• Mean Streets
• The Mechano-Menace
• Meine Dalix
• Metroid
• The Mission
• Modernism
• Moist
• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret
• Murmellius 2
• Museum of TADS
• Last Ride of the Night
• My Last Rodeo
• My Special Gift
• Myth
• A Night Guest
• A Night at the Museum Forever
• Ninja Burger
• No Time To Squeal
• Nothing but Mazes
• Office Fantasy: The Boss' Wife
• Office Fantasy: Working Late
• Once and Future
• One Foot Down
• The One That Got Away
• The Oracle
• Past Tense
• PC University: An Everyday Nightmare
• Peko's Story
• Perdition's Flames
• The Pesach Adventure
• The Plant
• Pool Party
• Prelude to Night
• Private Cyborg
• Prom Night
• PTBAD4: How the Record Got its Groove Back
• PTBAD5: Jesus Attack of Jesus Christ and the Church of the Seventeenth day Robots
• The Quest of the Golden Banana
• Rat In Control
• Recluse
• The Recruit
• Reefer Island
• Return to Ditch Day
• The Reveal
• Rogue Cop
• Rogue of the Multiverse
• Sabotage on the Century Cauldron
• Santa's Little Helper
• Saturn's Child
• Save Princeton
• Scavenger: Night's Edge
• The Sea of Night
• The Second Pit
• The Sex Artist
• Shadowland I: The Tower of Iron
• Shelter from the Storm
• Silence of the Lambs
• A Simple Theft
• The Singular, and Historically Inaccurate, Misadventures of Nobeard: Would-be Scourge of the Carribbean
• Sisychickenphus
• Slap That Fish
• The Sleeping Princess
• Small World
• Space Shooter: A TADS 3 abuse
• Special Detective Agent
• Spyder and Jeb
• Square Circle
• Stranded
• A Sugared Pill
• Sunset Over Savannah
• Suprematism
• Three Days of Night
• Things
• Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me
• To Cage a Magpie
• Tomorrow Never Comes
• Toonesia
• Tyler's Great Cube Game
• Undertow
• The Underoos that ate New York
• Undo
• Uncle Zebulon's Will
• Undertale: Epilogue
• Unease, Release
• Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant
• Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure
• Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme
• Unnkulia X: Escape of the Sacrificed
• Urban Cleanup
• VERITAS: A Harvard Game of Interactive Fiction
• Vividity
• Walker and Silhouette
• Ward Z
• The Water Bird
• Waystation
• Wolfenschtein: The Text Adventure!
• Worlds Apart
• Wormhole: The Beginning
• The Writing on the Wall
• Wuthering Heights
• WWE – RAW’s New GM
• You are a Chef!
• You Matched!
• Your Choice
• Zero Sum

External links

• IF Archive list of free TADS games