ADRIFT [1] is a graphical user interface used to create and play text adventures.

[9] Unlike many text adventure creation tools (such as TADS), the author needs little knowledge of how to program to use the ADRIFT Developer.

[10] This allows for text adventures to be written more quickly by people who are primarily authors rather than programmers.

[11] Two of the most critically acclaimed ADRIFT games to date are The PK Girl, which achieved 6th place in the Interactive Fiction Competition in 2002,[12] and A Fine Day for Reaping, which took 7th place in the Interactive Fiction Competition[13] and won the XYZZY Award for Best Story in 2007.

However, SCARE is an ANSI/ISO C secondary clone of jAsea and the project has resulted in the ability to play ADRIFT games on several platforms including Linux, Windows, DOS, Macintosh and Amiga.