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Welcome to PlayZMachine!

What is Z-Machine?

Z-Machine stands for Zork (Virtual) Machine.

Even in 1979, virtual machines were hot stuff. This one was the engine for all of the Infocom games. See https://github.com/JEssicaMulein/Z-Machine which has some PDFs in the root and under resources.

What does PlayZMachine do?

It is a Twitter bot that will let you play Infocom Z-Machine games (currently ~V3 implementation), one step at a time via tweet. Near term plans for Diamond/BitClout bot as well as AI map and scene image generation to go along with the tweets.

PlayZMachine also has a local console where you can play Zork interactively.

How will I play?

• Our Zork interpreter will pause any time it needs input, so we can send all the transcript we've gotten so far, save the state and give you a state ID code you can use to resume in the next post.
• Anyone will be able to reply and play from that exact save point in the game.
• Commands will look like /play ZORK1.DAT 123-abc-123 North

Future

• AI map and scene illustration generation
• https://twitter.com/underwaytrying/status/1451748859890180102?s=20