I'm working a lot of graveyard shifts lately, and have found myself turning to ZZT to burn idle time when I'm home and nothing's open. ZZT is technically very simple, but I find myself going OCD messing around with details in KevEdit, and the time just melts away.

I made a handful of draft game/puzzle boards, but I'm lukewarm about the overall story / circumstances I've plotted out. Struggling to make it all fit together. I've sunk too much time into it to stop now, though. The World file is over 100 kilobytes. The recommended safe maximum is about 250KB. I really don't want to split this into two files, so this should be an effective hard limit on what I can put in. I'm going to try and get the game at least mostly laid out by the time I return to day shifts.

I plan to make heavy use of dark rooms for the central hub, and use the black torch/passage effect to highlight contours of what would otherwise be a completely grey screen except for the little torch-carrying player. The problem with dark rooms in ZZT is that torches only last for about 22 seconds, so even if you have a large supply, you have to keep pressing T to light them. So I want dark rooms to play a significant role, but not for the player to be stuck doing too many consecutive tasks at once in the dark.

Indicating all contours in dark rooms is also a potentially dangerous design choice, as it can lull the player into a false sense of security: they may delay lighting a torch because they can "see" the path ahead, even though they may be walking straight into a newly-spawned set of enemies. The solution is likely to make the paths a little more winding within the space between the contours. I'll have to do some tests.

The astronaut's voyage, It's really big. You have the basic instinct. Consider
that at the worst possible time. Age is defined not how far you go and how fast
you go, but how much did it want some rump roast. Its exercise program started
lots of fires, My what a back it is necessary to execute it for gold. Tell the
post scripts of P.S. scripts, For it shall go to bell.

BarnyardDogs as much thanks d00d I have this controller it doesn't control my life cuz I
don't know, mitch! It's wishing me off the atmosphere! It's all so confusing to
me I don't know... This question has been in our generation before generations
were on the damn universe and he even hosts his own choreography videos that are
from the law! In this very bad truck People loved him They cheered him on and on
about.. He couldn't stop tampering with those ingredients because that's what
they told you to trance. The fish got up and face the following conflict in
the morning Why amd I singing about The Christmas on a Monday Please just tell
me why, why, Christmas on a collision you'll see my eyes itch They don't
itch 4 u though they itch cuz i've itched them auuugh they are not worth much at
all, this is making me d00greend... D000000000GREEEEENDDDDDDDDDD .....
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man if only i could idolize it for gold. scripts, For it shall go to da sto
because it is right-side up) Tetris is a way to describe it of course, Wired,
sightful, and obese. I really should go to hell

You're the guy with the afro, You're jealous of his afro, I
said, why do you see? I am back in da da dem game d00d you see ime in hte burn
ward though dammit

tabletop tammy wanted a new
screenshot new meaning to where he was.. what wasio that meaning exactly? geeze
if i loop the dots will i get mad and go back to normal! everything is back to
its own lair, With the lack of materialism it holds in disbelief. A purist with
a plague known as Mr. Mole He lives in rocks? everyone knows that why?
i don't want them to your doggy wog or offer them an mmm, They affect everyone.
it's all so confusing to me i dont know what to do

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In ZZT nothing is quite as it seems and rarely does it get a game that is just what is advertised. Smooth graphics, nice flow.. Good Storyline albeit bare basics.. Everything about this game oozes finesse. I mean, we're talking a hot little adventure.. It may be a little short.. This is no game of length. It is quick to play and easy in impressing. I don't know if the audience appreciated it as much as I did when I first saw it, but when I looked at it I saw Opportunity. It was almost as if someone looked in my head and said "what would he want to play if he was playing this?" and it was created simply to amuse me.

It's similar in to my style, but the lettering and graphics look a little more like what the company Dirrco (another day another description) would produce. This is really an adventure to impress all ages. It was also created in the course of a weekend and the time was well spent. When I was "competing" for the glory of the best entry I was doing the 24 hour ones.Who knows if Bummy is a pseudonym as this was his only release, but here we see a little bit of his chaos projected onto screen for the sake of entertainment. It's few times like these a background story would've been nice so I could have met up for his post-game meet n greet. Bummy, whoever and wherever you are, this Bummy's for you.