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Any new Zork games on the horizon?
One of the series that started it all for me, next to countless others. I miss the world of Zork, just miss it. Not sure if there’s even been a mention or if anyone caught wind of a new one, but man I’d kill for a fresh new Zork!
Really hope someone will Kickstart a new Zork game, or maybe a Zork spinoff. By “someone” I mean people who originally worked on the franchise, of course, not those random devs who released a couple of Browser sequels nobody cares for. Not sure what Marc Blank and Dave Lebling are up to these days, but I think the teams behind Nemesis and Inquisitor are still in business, and I love those titles! Zork universe is so rich, it’s a shame to see it covered in dust while many boring and unoriginal fantasy worlds getting one game after another.
PC means personal computer
Yea I think Zork would be an amazing come back game.
I love nemesis and inquisitor, but I don’t know what it is about Return to Zork but its just such cheesy goodness, that game brings back so many memories for me.
Have you played Spiritwrak? It’s a text adventure for z-machine interpreters (the same interpreting system the Infocom games ran on), and it’s free! According to Andrew Plotkin’s review notes, the author of this game got permission from Activision to set a new text adventure in the Zork universe, as long as no money was made and credit was given.
It’s easier than Sorcerer or (god forbid) Spellbreaker, but harder than Enchanter and most graphic adventures. The more recent releases make some of the limited-resource puzzles a bit more forgiving.
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=tqpowvmdoemtooqf
Enjoy! You’ll need an interpreter like Gargoyle or WinFrotz to run it, or you can use the on-line Parchment interpreter on that page.
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