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Hi. Sounds like an interesting project. As you may have noticed I also have an interest in breathing new life into the (good) old concepts of ZZT. As for what you say about the possibility of making a converter to port existing ZZT maps to your engine, my advice would be this. Essentially, make the ...

I appreciate your honesty. As far as the points you made about the key bindings and the graphics go, I won't argue. The keys should be configurable and perhaps I should have done that in this version. Graphically, there are certainly issues to address. However, you might be surprised to hear that th...

OK. What happens if you press X? This should select the highlighted menu option. Once the game is in progress you can then press X to pause it and from the pause menu select "exit" in the same way. There is no mouse input at this stage; the controls listed in the readme file are the only t...

Hello everyone; I hope you are as well or better then me on this particular day. After over 20 months of part time work and my brain nearly turning to treacle on several occasions, I can finally report that an alpha stage demo of this project is now available for download here: https://github.com/Mu...

Actually, the player is a special case but this was something I decided on before I decided to theme the game's content around ZZT. You could think of the game logic in terms of the player with his (or her) stateit's too limitedinteracting with a map formed of cubes, each of which has its own local ...

I love the links; it's impressive what developers managed to achieve on (by today's standards) very limited hardware. Did you know someone is remaking LSD on the Unity engine? As for your question about the user editor and textures... The process I use for making visual assets involves building and ...

Hi guys. As E3 2017 is pretty much under way, I thought I'd release my own E3 style trailer video. I had planned to wait until I'd released the alpha stage demo, but as this will only include a fairly small environment I realised a video could be a bit of a spoiler. The video speed is a bit faster t...

OK. I'll do a bit of experimentation and see if I can get to a reasonable solution with what's available on your site; I may get back to you in a bit. I've little experience with dealing with audio in applications so I've set fairly modest goals. I was thinking about using OpenAL and 3D rendering th...

Hi Chris. Thanks for your input on this. It's occurred to me I could use your Hall of Music app with the #PLAY sequences for certain effects and do a sound card capture on them. I'm only intending to use a strategic subset. For one thing, while certain sounds such as OPENDOOR seem reasonable in the ...

Hi. Hopefully people are having some wholesome long Easter weekend fun (if you have such a weekend in your locale). I'm into the final stages of the engine build part of my game project. At least, that's what I'm telling myself to help me keep going. The only major feature I've not made a start on i...

Hello again. I've decided to use Github to host my project; the address is github.com/Mushy-pea/Game-Dangerous. At the moment there's just a snapshot of the current code base (engine and tool chain components). Still, if you're interested in this kind of thing feel free to have a look. The metric to...

Well, only in the sense that someone could build maps for this engine that attempted to imitate the design elements of existing ZZT boards. As for the results, I imagine it might be a bit like the part in the book Flatland where A. Square finds his 2D self in a 3D world. If you haven't read it I wou...

Hey. Sorry about the double user naming, but I forgot my password and the reset system appears broken. Anyway, I just wanted to let people know I'm still pressing on with my game project and am hoping to release a playable alpha version in Q1 next year. This will include an opening level / region in...