1977: Zork

#1

Post by fanf2 » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

1977: Zork
if50.substack.com

Re: 1977: Zork

#2

Post by the_af » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

    You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

and

    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

are such iconic phrases, they bring a ton of good memories to my mind. And I never even finished Zork or Adventure!

Re: 1977: Zork

#3

Post by throwaway123x2 » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

Re: 1977: Zork

#4

Post by tomku » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

throwaway123x2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

Twine: https://twinery.org

Re: 1977: Zork

#5

Post by markus_zhang » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

the_af wrote: post #2

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. and It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. are such iconic phrases, they bring a ton of good memories to my mind. And I never even finished Zork or Adventure!

I first tried my hand on Zork about 15 years ago, and I never finished it too, probably only 5-10% done on my end. But the experience was pretty good for that short play. Yeah and I got eaten by the grue...

Re: 1977: Zork

#6

Post by DonHopkins » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

throwaway123x2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

Logo Adventure:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapi...

Re: 1977: Zork

#7

Post by ineptech » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 6:02 PM UTC

throwaway123x2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

"Interactive Fiction" is probably the search term you need. Might start here: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_write_my_own_g...

Re: 1977: Zork

#8

Post by moreoutput » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

throwaway123x2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

Let me shamelessly plug a project I'll probably always be poking at: https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD

I mainly played DIKU stuff so it feels a bit like that OOTB, but its very flexible (i hope).

Re: 1977: Zork

#9

Post by senkora » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

throwaway123x2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

The people I know who have done this have used Inform: http://inform7.com

Re: 1977: Zork

#10

Post by thaumasiotes » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

throwaway123x2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know of tools to make very basic text games and publish them to the web... like Choose Your Own Adventure type stories?

The tool to publish a Choose Your Own Adventure story to the web is just HTML. You have passages of text that link to other passages of text.