This is a piece of interactive fiction I made originally as a final exam for an English class.
It was made using inform, which creates binaries compatible with the infocom z- machine format. To run my game you need a z-machine interpreter. They are available for almost every platform in existence. I recommend frotz but anything that runs version 5 z-machine games should be fine.
This is what games used to be like... all text. If you are interested in creating text adventures, like the old infocom games, look into inform.
The files
life.z5 -- binary file of the game
life.inf -- text source in inform
life.rtf -- a paper i wrote describing the game
Even more information...
This was made originally as my final project for my AP English class in high school. The assignment was to explore the meaning of life through some art form, touching on at least three works studied in the class.
Because of this, the game makes a little more sense if you are familiar with the following works:
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- by Tom Stoppard
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Chairs by Ionesco
The game is purposefully frustrating, and death is inevitable in it. Comments on it are always welcome.