It allows you to make text adventure games, or for the more sophisticated, “interactive fiction”.
And it has the easiest code language ever: plain english.
Paper Clips is south of Theatre. The description of Paper Clips is “For all your office supply needs… or perhaps just one or two of them. It looks like the whole store has been picked clean. You can’t even find paper clips in Paper Clips!”
A candy is in Paper Clips. “There’s a piece of candy on the desk.” The candy is edible.
The description of the candy is “Tempting chocolate.”
If you were to type these exact lines it would create exactly that.
It’s CRAZY.
Last summer I threw together my very first IF. It’s a short puzzleventure called King Hiksaditi’s tomb. It’s really not that great, sometimes trying to find the right wording is a pain, but it’s pretty short otherwise.
How to run the file:
1) Read this guide. It will save you plenty of frustration. [link]
2) You need a program that reads z files (Called an interpreter) to play this game. Download one here: [link] They have one for just about every platform. I recommend Windows Frotz to windows users; it’s included in the zip file.
3) Click Download on this deviation, and save it to the desktop.
4) After you have installed the interpreter, run it, then select the file on the desktop (or wherever you saved it.)
5) Sit there and wonder why you can’t get ye flask.
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