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: http://ratfactor.com/misc/hoot/hoot.html
Play a silly example game: http://ratfactor.com/misc/hoot/examplegame.html

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 http://ratfactor.com/contact-me

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!