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Recommended ZZT Games

By: Paul Eres

On: October 26th, 2008

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The ZZT is an ANSI-based game with a game editor, and that editor was probably the first important piece of game creation software. The editor wasn’t even intended as its most important feature, but its popularity eclipsed the game itself. It’s still used to create games even today.

Clysm, the author of the classic Game Maker game Seiklus, has put up a nice list of the ZZT games he recommends. You’ll need to download the ZZT runner itself to play them. I recommend trying them all out, they each have something interesting about them, and playing them is a good insight into the history of independent games (if you care about that).

Trivia: one of the games there, Rhygar, pictured above, was created by the writer of the story of Immortal Defense (long before I met him). I’ve never actually finished it, but I like how it arranges the colored text characters into almost photograph-like scenes.

EDIT: Dessgeega has created a similar list of recommended ZZT games that is worth looking into, over at The Gamer’s Quarter.