/agent-project Here’s a clear, well-structured set of requirements for a Python command-line, turn-by-turn adventure game inspired by Zork. If you'd like these in a specific format (e.g., functional ...

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of ...

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Microsoft officially made the code for the entire classic Zork trilogy open-source. The legal status was unclear, as Activision Blizzard could have requested its removal. The code was first made ...

Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...

The first Zork title influenced the development of parser-based stories and puzzle-driven play. The game ran on the Z-Machine virtual machine, which helped the trilogy appear on multiple personal ...

Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...

The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork ...

And some may be surprised that text adventures are not dead, but continue to thrive! Dozens are written every year, and some of the best can be found at the IF Competition every year, at ifcomp.org!

Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork text adventure games along with their original build notes, comments, and other historically relevant files, and ...

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