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then let's get to it shall we

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Whoa.

Shortly after blasting off my posts into what I thought was a dead void......I find out about this ZZT utra project. To say the least, it looks amazing. The amount of progress made already seems to be more than any ZZT clone before it. This could be.... the start of something big.

MY STORY: Recently I've been introducing my two kids to the old DOS games I used to play. My 6-year-old son has especially taken to them. He loves commander keen and bio menace. It's been awesome re-experiencing these games with them. This got me thinking about ZZT. I loaded it up, downloaded a few ...

WHAT NEW GAMES NEED: (my opinion)

Clear, easy to understand graphics.
Simple mechanics.
Less text.
Geared towards new comers.
Innovative ideas.

SOLUTION IDEAS:

>Good publicity. That ebook about zzt is coming out sometime.....
>advertisements on gaming forums...?
>NEW GAMES!
>NEW GAMES
>NEW GAMES

Some thoughts... PROBLEMS: The zzt community, back in the day, was made up of kids, teenagers. All those kids have grown up, and have better things to do. Today's kids and teens have other game programs that scratch the same itch ZZT did for us, like Minecraft, etc. The good games are sometimes hard...

The scene is dead.....but could it be resuscitated?

I think so.

Ok I'll try it on DOSbox. ZZT just isn't ZZT without the musics.

Thanks for the help.

Hey guys, I know this is probably quite the "newbie" question here, but since I left ZZT 9 years ago I left computers behind me and set out on a lucrative career as an alcoholic derelict, and as such, I didn't have much time to keep up on the advances like "MIDIs" or "I-Phon...

What a sad day in history.