{"id":935,"date":"2010-10-08T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2010-10-08T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:41:10","slug":"zork-for-the-kindle-text-adventure-games-on-an-e-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/08\/zork-for-the-kindle-text-adventure-games-on-an-e-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Zork for the Kindle: Text Adventure Games on an E-Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are in a maze of twisty e-readers, all alike:

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\nThis is possibly the coolest use I’ve heard of for an e-reader device<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I said previously<\/a> I have two strong feelings about e-readers: first, that the devices are inherently neat and desirable; and second, that the licensing restrictions on e-books make them a terribly stupid thing to buy.<\/p>\n

This is something else: it’s a Kindle-formatted web interface to several of the old Infocom text adventures (as I write, Zork 1-3). Kindle users can connect to the web site and type their way through the craziness. Of course I used to rely so heavily on my scribbled maps when I played these that the player might also want to pack a notebook along.<\/p>\n

It’s truly interactive because it’s communicating with an interpreter on the Internet. It would also be possible to convert a multiple-choice adventure game for the Kindle by starting with one long HTML file with internal anchor links, and converting from there: that end product, though, would be an actual e-book. This is something else, and it’s a great idea!<\/p>\n

Via Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are in a maze of twisty e-readers, all alike: This is possibly the coolest use I’ve heard of for an e-reader device. As I said previously I have two strong feelings about e-readers: first, that the devices are inherently neat and desirable; and second, that the licensing restrictions on e-books make them a terribly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}