# INSTEAD

- Home: https://instead.hugeping.ru/en/, https://sourceforge.net/projects/instead/
- State: mature
- Download: https://instead.hugeping.ru/en/#download, https://github.com/instead-hub/instead/releases, https://sourceforge.net/projects/instead/files/, https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.silentlexx.instead/, https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.emunix.insteadlauncher/
- Platform: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android
- Keyword: adventure, game engine, visual novel, text-based
- Code repository: https://github.com/instead-hub/instead.git (@created 2014, @stars 210, @forks 40), https://github.com/btimofeev/instead-launcher-android.git @add (@created 2018, @stars 23, @forks 6), https://svn.code.sf.net/p/instead/code (svn old)
- Code language: C, Lua, Java
- Code license: MIT
- Code dependency: SDL
- Developer: Alexander Yakovlev, Boris Timofeev, Dmitry Marakasov, Jorge Gómez Sanz, luckyuk, Mehdi Sadeghi, mehdisadeghi, Michael Steele, Peter Kosyh, Sam Protsenko, WhoYouAndM3, wimh

Engine for textographic games, which are a mix of interactive fiction, visual novels and classic point & click adventures.
At least two different Android version on F-Droid? Which one is better?

## Building

- Build system: CMake