Bisquixe

Bisquixe
Interpreter
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Developer	Mathbrush
Format	Glulx
Interaction style
System	Browser
System details
Latest version	6 / 19 December 2023
Status	Beta
Implements
Uses	Quixe
Multimedia support	This interpreter supports color effects, CSS styling, sound, graphics, and hyperlinks.
License
Notes	Note that this interpreter cannot simply be downloaded and run to play game files.
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Bisquixe is a user interface library allowing Inform 7 authors to publish games to the web which use dynamic styling specified with CSS, and other multimedia effects.

History

Bisquixe was released in 2023 along with the Inform 7 extension Simple Multimedia Effects. The name "Bisquixe" was chosen "Because it's fast and easy and not quite as good as a carefully crafted product."

Features

The Bisquixe web interpreter for Inform allows the author to use the following tools in games:

• Arbitrary, on-the-fly CSS modifications, as well as assigning arbitrary classes to elements on the screen
• Importing Google fonts
• Playing sound (this was the only way to get sound in web play of an Inform 7 game until Parchment gained sound support in January 2025)
• Clickable hyperlinks which execute a parser command or open a web page
• A simplified way to include graphics
• Hiding commands from the screen

The Bisquixe interpreter acts as an augmented version of Quixe, and uses Glk to transmit the CSS changes to the webpage. The commands are triggered by special Inform code written in the Simple Multimedia Effects extension for Inform 7.

Games created using Bisquixe

• Tagged games: bisquixe - at IFDB

See also

• Vorple

Links

• GitHub repository.
• Announcement thread and documentation (started 09-Dec-2023).
• An author's reference for Bisquixe: thread by Drew Cook started 21-Mar-2026.

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