the original map of the great MIT implementors’ “zork,” from around 1979, as re-copied/completed 1982.
“zork” was divided into 3 separate installments, fleshed out, and released as a text-based interactive adventure game.
what it created was a genre that has since come to be known as “interactive fiction,” although, as this map and others who’ve written on the subject have noted, it’s fundamentally an exercise in mapmaking and (bizarre) logic with some good writing as window-dressing.
April 27, 2009, 9:21pm Comments
