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- Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior, accessible via web browsers.
- It builds on HyperCard's legacy and classic MacOS aesthetic, offering simplicity and learning ease with modern improvements like undo history, scroll wheel support, and bulk editing.
- Users can create E-Zines, notes, presentations, adventure games, or pixel art, with a distinctive 'ditherpunk' aesthetic that encourages sketchy, imperfect prototyping.
- Decker features Lil, a scripting language influenced by Lua and Q, with implicit scalar-vector arithmetic and an SQL-like query language for complex projects.
- It includes built-in interactive widgets and allows custom widget creation, with copy-paste functionality for sharing via clipboard or text storage.
- Decker is command-line friendly; Lilt, a standalone Lil interpreter, can manipulate documents headlessly and runs on multiple platforms, including a POSIX AWK version.
- Decks use a line-oriented text format that integrates with Git and SVN, ensuring privacy with no ads, telemetry, or intrusions.
- Decker is free under an MIT license, with source on GitHub and binary downloads on Itch.io, plus community forums and game jams held every July and December.