OMFG this rocks!
I know I can get a plugin for the Firefox Browser that'll let me play the old Z-Machine games, but they don't have a cool splash background behind the text.
Do more of these. I mean it.
Reviews for "Classic Zork Trilogy"
nightwatchy2 responds:
Thanks! I wasn't aware of the Firefox plugin, but I haven't been following the IF community very closely.
As for other games - we'll see. Unfortunately, most of the old Infocom games aren't free. There is, of course, room for original stuff (and Advent, I suppose). ^^
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How dit you make this...
This is awesome, I can't stop playing it!!
You are the best! You should make more of this.
nightwatchy2 responds:
Thanks. It took lots of patience (Flash's bugs manifested themselves in a big way) and the Z-machine docs.
AMAZING!
I remember playing Zork I on my TRS-80. Almost brings tears to my eyes. Other comments where correct. Needs the orig. map.
Excellent!
Great work. I can imagine the tedium of having to program this, so thanks for the effort. I remember playing this game as a kid in the mid-eighties on either my dad's Macintosh or PS/2. Good Times... This is a wonderful program to engage children in an interactive literary experience. Not only is the child reading, but the story unfolds by interacting with the computer via a keyboard, as opposed to a controller. As wonderful as modern, instant-gratification games are at exercising hand-eye coordination and even spatial reasoning, old-old school games like these exercise more "right brain" faculties like imagination - imagining what the land of Great Underground Empire is like. (I always thought that, for what it was, the lore of Zork was pretty awesome).
Love that this game was brought back by you - Great job! one question - when i save, how do i reload the saved game? i keep having to start over -