Did you know Infocom had plans to release a sequel to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Neither did I...
Not only can you read the story behind this, but you can play an abbreviated prototype.
I often ponder whether the Z-machine format (or any other single player text-based Interactive Fiction) has any modern applicability, but whenever I look back at related topics, it always triggers great memories. The quality of the writing just does such a great job of capturing the imagination.
And Inform blows my mind. It makes it so ridiculously easy to write Interactive Fiction. It also makes me think about how much hard work writing the original Infocom titles must have been without tools like this.
It's hard to believe HHTTG was released in 1984!
I still remember purchasing it and opening the box like it was yesterday.
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