Hiss

An HTML choose-your-own adventure game creator. Runs in the browser and exports stand-alone HTML games.

The entire thing is contained in the hiss.html file.

Try it out here:

ratfactor.com/hiss/hiss.html

Work in Progress

See the devlog.

Hiss Editor license to be determined

People’s opinions about licenses have gotten weirdly polarized lately and I find some of the motivation to be somewhat bizarre. The editor will have some sort of open-source license, but it will probably be copyleft.

The games you make with Hiss are 100% yours. You own all rights to your game content. The exported player and all code are yours to keep, trade, or sell as you see fit. I might make the game player code public domain (or a permissive license like MIT or BSD) to make it clear that you can do anything you’d like with your exported games.

The Hiss runtime game format is a very simple JavaScript data structure so you can always write your own player in the future. The editor game format is an even simpler structured text document. So everything you make in Hiss is easy to preserve for the future. For maximum future-proofing, I encourage you to keep a copy of the Hiss editor itself with your game files. Hiss will always be free to use.