Legends of Zork Goes Live 76
TinBromide writes "The developers over at Jolt Online Gaming have released Legends of Zork to the general public. It's a free, browser-based, adventure game based on the world of Zork. You play as a Traveling Salesman, recently laid off from FrobozzCo. You start off in a clearing, where a white house has a boarded up door. From there, you can do what you like. Explore the world, fight other salesmen in PVP, or try out your Darkvision Goggles in the dark — just try not to get eaten by a grue."
It's free in that you're given 30 Action Points each day, which are consumed by moving about and fighting. Their business model is that if you want more Action Points, you can purchase more.
Want some rye? (Score:2, Funny)
'Course you do.
Action Points? Oh no. (Score:5, Funny)
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> USE TORCH
You have no more action points.
*log on the next day*
You have been eaten by the grue.
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.
What?
Hello sailor (Score:5, Funny)
The mac logo on the back of your laptop is a shining beacon to attract men.
You could at least try to stay on topic for Zork.
O ye who use Macs :
Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?
Yea, verily, thou shalt be ground between two stones.
Shall the angry gods cast thy body into the whirlpool?
Surely, thy eye shall be put out with a sharp stick!
Even unto the ends of the earth shalt thou wander and
Unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
browser-based (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one who reads "browser-based" as "play from work"?
Some day I'll develop a web browser impossible to distinguish from an excel spreadsheet.
"You | 50.22 | Have been | % | 3473N | B Y | a GRUE"
Re:browser-based (Score:3, Funny)
what idiot modded this as flamebait??
Clearly, a Boss.
great game - doesn't deserve to be called zork (Score:4, Funny)
This is *gasp* web-based. You've made a pretty decent web-based game, and given it the spiritual name of the most important game to EVER COME TO COMPUTERS. Do you see where I'm coming from?
DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! Kingdom of loathing is a great web based game, and in all honest more deserving of the title zork. Have you guys ever played nethack? Adventure? MUD II? Do you even KNOW who Richard Bartle is?
This is like a terrible thing to do with zork! Zork is a text-based game! text-based! that's why WE LOVED ZORK because we could imagine stuff - you know - WITH OUR IMAGINATION THINGY!!!!!
But text based games are alive and well - both multiplayer (in the MUD and MUSH community) and single player (in the interactive fiction community).
PS: whoever thought of the idea of buying coconuts for fucking action points needs to be eaten by a grue. you know about that, right?
Re:great game - doesn't deserve to be called zork (Score:3, Funny)
Boy, that sure is a lot of SHOUTING and swearing for "peaceful_bill".
:)
Did you forget your Xanax today?
Re:Want some rye? (Score:3, Funny)
Damn few
Re:30 points? (Score:3, Funny)
No one would ever pay a monthly subscription for a game.
Re:Want some rye? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hello sailor (Score:2, Funny)