Based on our record, Twine seems to be a lot more popular than Manuskript. While we know about 275 links to Twine, we've tracked only 1 mention of Manuskript. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine. Source: 5 months ago
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that. Source: 5 months ago
The Twine website links to a few, along with thousands at IFDB; https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=system%3Atwine And itch: https://itch.io/games/tag-twine See the Twinery for more, including the spec: https://twinery.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
The story is from my own mind, of course. I will maybe use Twine to help me with all the possible way to go, not sure yet. Source: 7 months ago
Https://twinery.org/ would this work for you? Source: 10 months ago
Looks like you want something that integrates well with your workflow. The closest to your description seems to be Manuskript although I haven't used it. But your requirement of "keeping notes and frameworks and linking back and forth" should be possible by stitching together existing Linux tools using a syntax like markdown or asciidoc so that you can use any text editor to write your story and use external tools... Source: over 2 years ago
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