INSTEAD

The first public version of INSTEAD 0.7.4 was released for the Linux operating system on February 20, 2009 ^[3] .

On February 22, 2010, a module appeared that allows you to run URQ games from INSTEAD 1.1.3.

In 2011, the Mansion, an adventure game written for INSTEAD, by Peter Kosykh, was awarded the Prize for achievements in the interactive literature in Russian, The Golden Hamster, in the Best Riddles nomination ^[4] .

As of July 31, 2012, only the INSTEAD official repository contained more than fifty games.

As of July 17, 2018, the division into the "official" and "unofficial" repository of games has been abolished. There is a single repository of games: http://instead-games.ru/

Porting

Initially, INSTEAD was developed for Linux, but later, thanks to the support of project participants, it was ported to various operating systems:

• Windows - May 31, 2009. Author: Ilya Ryndin.
• Mac OS X - August 5, 2010.
• Haiku - September 13, 2010. Author: Gerasim Troyeglazov.
• Windows Mobile and Maemo - September 27, 2010.
• Android - October 1, 2010. Author: Makhno Alexey.

• Anyone can create their own quest, for this it is desirable to have at least an initial knowledge of a simple scripting Lua programming language . Detailed documentation for the program in Russian and the course of video lessons will help to master the process of writing games, even for those who are far from programming.
• In addition to text, also plays graphic and musical accompaniment.
• With the help of the module plays the URQ- games.
• Able to reproduce the quests from the games Space Rangers and Space Rangers 2: Dominators , as well as any quests written with the help of the TGE editor for CD and CR2.
• Opportunities for different interface design, as well as changing themes in the game on the fly.
• Full screen display capability.
• Flexible parameter settings.
• Training mode
• Control keyboard or mouse .
• Support for responding to a mouse click on a specific area in the picture.

In the game "Escape from the toilet" English. Escape the toilet uses three-dimensional images , effectively imitating the interface of modern computer quests. This is the first game created for INSTEAD with this feature.

In 2010, the game "Quarantine" was published - it became the most striking example of an INSTEAD project with a non-linear plot . In the game there are random events, many options for endings, "negative" and "positive" characters are selected at random each time.

On September 6, 2010, an important event from the point of view of functionality and development of the engine was a historic event - a game of solitaire “Soloireire” ^{[5] was released} (for INSTEAD since version 1.2.0). Thus, now INSTEAD can be considered not only as an application for launching text quests, but also as a multifunctional gaming platform.

July 14, 2011 the first version of INSTEAD for Adobe Flash appeared . For example, you can already play “Return of the Quantum Cat” right in your browser.

You can run many games online or download a game archive and launch it using INSTEAD. In addition, you can install / run games with the help of the Instead Man tab ^[6] .

• URQ
• Interactive literature

• Richard Smedley. HotPix → Instead // LinuxFormat . - September 2014. - No. 9 (187) . - p . 104 .
• Christopher christopher@tut.by. Designers for creating computer games // Computer newspaper. - Minsk: Publishing House "Nestor", 2010. - № 20 .
• Vasily Voronkov. Interview: Peter Kosy // IFPrint.org. - March 5, 2013. - Vol. 1 . - ISSN 2307-535X . Archived February 26, 2015.
• Peter Kosykh. INSTEAD: How it all began // IFPrint.org. - March 18, 2013. - Vol. 1 . - ISSN 2307-535X . Archived February 26, 2015.
• Peter Kosykh. Metaparser // IFPrint.org. - April 30, 2013. - Vol. 2 - ISSN 2307-535X . Archived February 26, 2015.

• Official site [1] [1] [1]
• SourceForge Project
• Game repository
• INSTEAD on Gcup.ru
• INSTEAD on Questzone.ru
• Video tutorials on creating games for INSTEAD

1. ↑ New INSTEAD3 page