Ruins of ZZT by Dr. Dos
Ruins of ZZT is an homage to classic ZZT games of the early 1990s.
Venture into the ruins, collect the purple keys, and escape with your life!
Apologies in advance for the hassle in actually playing this. It's made with ZZT, an MS-DOS game from 1991. It's definitely a relic, but I had fun making it.
Here is what you'll need:
1) Dosbox - Unless you can run MS-DOS applications natively
Download it from http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
2) ZZT - This is a ZZT World so you'll have to run it through ZZT.
You can get it at http://zzt.org/zgames/z/zzt.zip
3) Run ZZT.EXE, select Keyboard/Color. Press W to open the world list
and from there, pick RUINS.
4) Press P to play! More detailed help and instructions are provided
within the ZZT World itself.
Venture into the ruins, collect the purple keys, and escape with your life!
Apologies in advance for the hassle in actually playing this. It's made with ZZT, an MS-DOS game from 1991. It's definitely a relic, but I had fun making it.
Here is what you'll need:
1) Dosbox - Unless you can run MS-DOS applications natively
Download it from http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
2) ZZT - This is a ZZT World so you'll have to run it through ZZT.
You can get it at http://zzt.org/zgames/z/zzt.zip
3) Run ZZT.EXE, select Keyboard/Color. Press W to open the world list
and from there, pick RUINS.
4) Press P to play! More detailed help and instructions are provided
within the ZZT World itself.
This seemed rather long for a LD entry, perhaps because it was quick for you to author content =). I enjoyed most of it, though often when walking and shooting I would shoot in the wrong direction (probably pressing shift before I'd released an arrow key), and I'm sure that's a ZZT/DOSBox issue, not an issue with your game ^_^.
I'm glad you liked it! Unfortunately yeah, Dosbox and ZZT don't quite play along as well as you'd hope and the input handling can be a little messed up at times.
Really solid entry! The boss battle glitched out for me a few times (the bomb's mess didn't disappear, but the bomb itself did and the boss didn't die) and had to start it over, but otherwise played it from the beginning to the end with basically no disruptions, kept engaged. Pretty impressing! Loved it - and I think I'll definitely look into ZZT now ;)