AKFAvatar is a fancy graphical user interface for text oriented applications, where an avatar appears on the screen, and tells things to the user written in a balloon. There can also be recorded audio files, so that the user even can hear, what it is saying.
Applications for AKFAvatar can be written in Lua, an easy to learn scripting language. It has an interface for C programs, which can also be used for Objective-C or C++. Furthermore there are bindings for FreePascal and GnuPascal.
AKFAvatar already comes with quite a few ready to use applications and modules. There is for example a text-viewer, a module to make question-answer exercises and there are many more things you could do with it…
For POSIX-compatible operating systems there is a ManPage viewer, and there is even a terminal emulator. So you can run many existing terminal based programs in this fancy environment.
Needed: SDL, Lua 5.2.x
Status: Alpha (still under construction)
Homepage: http://akfavatar.nongnu.org/akfavatar.en.html
Download: http://download.sv.nongnu.org/releases/akfavatar/
Snapshots: http://download.akfoerster.de/software/akfavatar/testing/
Overview over the development: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/akfavatar.git
Git: git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/akfavatar.git
License: GPLv3+ 
(the library is also licensed under the ordinary GPL)
Author: AndreasFoerster 
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