Choice of Games

A great place to get inspired about large choose-your-own-adventure projects. Their games are lengthy, but extensive use of variables make them entertaining and lively. These games manage to use the medium to its fullest. Visit here to play their games, and here to play user-made games and learn about making your own! This method does involve a little bit of coding but also has a tutorial to assist and much help and support.

Twine

One of my personal favorites, Twine is a way to develop a choose-your-own-adventure game more visually, with a flowchart-like schematic of the game. With a few short video tutorials you can be making a stylish new game in no time!

InkleWriter

Inkle is relatively new to the interactive fiction world, yet they’re making a powerful impact with their works, including a choose-your-own-adventure-style remake of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. They have released an online CYOA editor, as well as hosting competitions for CYOA stories intermittently.

AXMA Story Maker

This program is startlingly similar to Twine. It has many of the same functions and even the same appearance. While Twine has become something of a community project, with bug fixes made by dedicated users when they have time, this program is sponsored by a company. Still, a deal-breaker for many is AXMA’s declaration that the user is not allowed to edit the HTML.

Adventure Cow

A fun little site that allows the user to both host Twine games or create a game entirely online. It is relatively new, so many features are still in the beta process. Still, it shows much potential as a source of interactive fiction creation and community-building.

Choose Your Story

A nifty site that is heavily community driven. it offers fairly simple controls and tutorials to build relatively powerful choose-your-own-adventure games. There are all sorts of user-inspired games here to play as well.

Create Your Own Adventure

A site that manages to live up to its name, this is an open wiki to develop choose-your-own-adventure games. You can either create a closed game of contribute to those of other users. Needless to say, there are many you can play on the site as well!