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telecom

written 20230529, updated 20230427.

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tower climbing adventure!

explore a crumbling ruin, visit its still-preserved museum of telecommunications, swing across the abyss on flimsy cables. make sure to have your photo taken at the observation deck.

zzt

this was mainly an excuse to play around with zzt, a game making editor from the nineties with a lovely mixture of affordances and constraints. all you’ve got to work with is 256 ascii characters. but you can sure make those 256 characters dance and run around if you so want.

i made this game using weave 3, which extends the base game in all sorts of ways. weave 3 included a version of the zedit2 (called zloom2) drag and drop interface, plus a tool for compiling the web version using the zeta emulator.

i first learned about this tool from the book zzt by anna anthropy (and after seeing the impressive things she herself has made with it).