![Hoot Owl Logo by Dave Gauer](http://ratfactor.com/misc/hoot/hoot-logo.png "A tiny hypertext adventure game builder for browsers") Welcome to Hoot! ================ Hoot stands for Hypertext Once upOn a Time. It's an adventure game creation tool. You write adventures in simple Hootscript and Hoot turns your script into a game that can be played in any ordinary Web browser. Start Adventuring ----------------- Use Hoot: Play a silly example game: Hoot contains its own tutorial, so feel free to jump right in and start creating your own games. No programming experience is required. Feedback is welcomed at Version History --------------- * 2014-05-08 - v1.5 - Added escape sequence for literal slash inside strings: \/ * 2013-10-19 - v1.4 - Fixed nasty parser bug which could cause things to be nested under other things under certain circumstances (such as following an if...then...end statement) * 2013-03-17 - v1.3 - Fixed critical compression bug, improved error checking (most errors now in plain English) * 2013-03-16 - v1.2 - Vars and things no longer case sensitive * 2013-03-16 - v1.1 - Build output now compressed! * 2013-03-14 - v1.0 - New predictive parser complete, project now called Hoot* * 2012-03-14 - v0.1 - Work begins on a non-toy implementation **Hoot** Copyright 2013 Dave Gauer Released under the MIT license. ------------------- *Yes, it really was a year to the day after work began, but I had no idea until I compiled the above list!