I have been a fan of text adventures for quite some time. After discovering Inform 7, I have been making my own much easily after several aborted attempts for decades. Furthermore, I created an “adventuring” script, which is included below, will allow people to automatically detect between Z-Machine or Glulx formats.
The text adventures I find interesting or have made will be presented on this page, too.
Adventuring Script
The adventuring script is simple. First, you need frotz and glulxe installed. Next, you need a bash environment found typically on Linux. Finally, you need something to run it on. My personal choice is the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W due to it’s massive portability.
#!/bin/bash
if [[ $1 =~ \.z.+$ ]]
then
frotz "$1"
else
glulxe "$1"
fi
Buttered Toast
A long, long time ago, my brother, my friend Ben, and I had dreams of being writers and movie stars for terrible films. From this, came the film script Buttered Toast. A lot of the jokes were “edgy”. They were bad. So bad I am too embarassed for the script to see the light of day. Don’t worry, I have it and am slowly taking the actual funny parts out and putting them into text adventures, which my brother and I agree is the future of our artistic endeavors. It’s not the future of art. Just what we want in life. As such, I wrote a two text adventures for what were based on the script called Buttered Toast 1 and 2. They lacked pinache and other things. So, I have decided to combine them into one huge game having a “special edition” tag. There’s others and, as I remaster them, they’ll end up here.