Tads is the text adventure development system, a set of tools for writing and playing text-based adventure games. you interface with these games by entering commands in english, and the game responds with a textual description of the result.

this package contains a compiler which produces machine-independent tads version 3 game files, as well as the standard tads 3 library. the input language is an object-oriented high-level language similar to c or c++.