A collection of websites / platforms that can be used to create web-based interactive narratives and games…

  • platforms that can be repurposed for gamified adventures

    • Google Slides… link between slides for choose-your-own-adventure or puzzles
    • Canva… usable for interactive click-through prototypes with animations
    • MIRO… use boards, clickable links, and icons for branching or map-based adventures
  • playable spaces

    • Topia… browser-based social world builder
    • Spatial… create and edit 3d environments… at time of writing (2025.10.05) free tier is pretty limited… max 5 concurrent users
  • game development tools for web

    • Twine… designed for text based interactive fiction but… as it works with HTML… CSS and JS can do images… audio… video and various web-interactions… you can export and upload to itch
    • Bitsy… simple… pixel art… room and tile based game editor… exports to HTML… can be hosted or uploaded to itch
    • PlayCanvas HTML5 game development platform
    • Wonderland engine web game development platform