====== Welcome to INSTEAD wiki! ======
{{ :en:instead_1.1.910-cat-en.png?300|Game «The Returning of the Quantum Cat»}}
**INSTEAD** — INterpreter of Simple TExt ADventure. Using INSTEAD you can create and play games that could be classified as a mix of visual novel, text quest and classical 90'ss quest.

^ Developer | Peter Kosyh ||
^ OS | Linux, Windows, Mac %%OS%% X ||
^ Language | Russian, English, Spanish ||
^ License | GNU GPL — source code, Creative Commons 3.0 BY — components ||
^ Downloads |  [[http://code.google.com/p/instead/downloads/list|INSTEAD]]  |  [[http://code.google.com/p/instead-games/downloads/list|Official games]] <sup>[[en:games|more]]</sup>  |

===== The STEAD features =====
    * simple story source code (LUA based script);
    * gui and text (readline) interfaces;
    * gui interface supports music and pictures;
    * theme support;
    * portability (initially the game has written under the Linux and depends on SDL and lua). 

===== Links =====
  * [[documentation|Documentation]]
  * [[tricks|INSTEAD programming tricks]]


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