Tag: Infocom
Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…
With the recent news about Infocom games available on Github, the gigantic source code host service is hosting on its HQ a live stream discussing what was like game development in the ’80s with Kevin Savetz and Steve Meretzky. The stream is happening now (Friday 26th, 6:23PM EST). Github: We’re excited to host Kevin Savetz and Steve Meretzky to talk…
A huge collection of Infocom’s Text Adventure games is now available in their source code form on Github. Thanks to Jason Scott efforts, 45 games are now at anyone’s reach to be dissected, including popular titles like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Zork, and Planetfall. The games were all written using ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) which will make hard…
The latest episode of everybody’s favorite Text Adventure Podcast, Eaten by a Grue, is out. Join in as the Grue Crew discusses Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, as well as retro terminals, nerdy music videos, and Carrington tries to speak slower. And, did they just say they’re going to play a point-and-click game next?!? What is this world…
Kevin Savetz (of Antic – The Atari 8-bit Podcast) and Carrington Vanston (of the Retro Computing Roundtable) have launched a brand new, fabulous podcast about text adventure games. In this new podcast, Carrington and Kevin will chose a classic text adventure game, play it for a month, and then talk about it together for our listening pleasure. They reminisce about…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
