zork1
Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom (by historicalsource)
lectrote
The IF interpreter in an Electron shell (by erkyrath)
| zork1 | lectrote | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 1,093 | 243 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.1 | |
| about 5 years ago | 7 months ago | |
| ZIL | JavaScript | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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zork1
Posts with mentions or reviews of zork1.
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Zarf Updates: A treasury of Zork maps
Thanks, looks like this is the relevant code: https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1/blob/master/1actio...
As I understand it, the thief doesn’t take room exits, but rather warps through the rooms sequentially in the order they’re listed in the code, skipping any that are sacred or non-land.
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I am writing an interactive fiction builder in C#. I decided to put it to the test by recreating Zork 1
Indeed I made an assumption without looking into it first. However, I did just find some Zork 1 source code on Github and it doesn't seem that I was too far off. Take this file for example which appears to largely confirm my statement of "likely all authored/coded screen by screen and command by command". You can essentially see how they're coding each action and result on a case-by-case basis. I am not saying that's bad or anything. I have a substantial advantage over their 40-year-old technology and resources, but it does seem I was right about how early text-based adventures were developed.
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50 years of text games – 1977: Zork
Most of Infocom classics can be found at e.g. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
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In the original Planetfall, is the lantern actually coded to work properly?
Compared to the lamp in Zork 1 for example -- it sets the LIGHT/LAMP-ON bit (along with the candles, matches, torch, etc. )
lectrote
Posts with mentions or reviews of lectrote.
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50 years of text games – 1977: Zork
There are still people making new works of interactive fiction, including in the parser-based style of Adventure or Zork. You can find a lot of the more recent games on IFDB[0] and general info about IF and the community on IFWiki[1]. Most modern parser games are built for VMs with interpreters available for many operating systems and types of devices, with Lectrote[2] being a common recommendation for desktop platforms.
[0]: https://ifdb.tads.org
[1]: http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
[2]: https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote
What are some alternatives?
When comparing zork1 and lectrote you can also consider the following projects:
cyo - Simple HTML Storytelling Engine
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
inform - The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language.
RockMUD - Node Websocket MUD Server. Demo: https://rockmud.herokuapp.com/
encrusted - A z-machine (interpreter) for text adventure games like Zork
planetfall - Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom)
mud-eventemitter