Museum of ZZT
Welcome to the Museum of ZZT, a site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT.
ZZT is a text-mode game from 1991 created by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games. ZZT has its own editor and scripting language which offers what may still be an unmatched level of accessibility to beginning game developers. A significant number of ZZT worlds were created by authors in their early teenage years, with some being made by children under 10. ZZT's simple ZZT-OOP scripting language gave many a friendly introduction to programming.
The goal of the Museum of ZZT site is to collect these worlds, offer discussions into them and the community built around them, and keep them safely preserved. It is the hope of the Museum that the generally unknown works of ZZT community can be easily discovered and that their importance can be recognized.
Latest Files
Latest Articles
About ZZT
Livestream - Dungeons of ZZT
ZZT and Epic Newsletter Scans
| Title | Author | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestream - Caves of ZZT | Dr. Dos | Jan. 10th | The second ZZT world offers classic ZZT at its best and worst, but still entertains |
| Livestream - Town of ZZT | Dr. Dos | Jan. 3rd | 30 years later, ZZT's first world is still a fantastic experience |
| Closer Look: Sid's Disaster | Dr. Dos | Dec. 31st | Stalagtite platforming in a ZZT game? An engine that's rock solid copes with design that puts a few cracks in this spelunking adventure |
| Livestream - Advent Calendar Worlds | Dr. Dos | Dec. 18th | Fantasy is the theme of the day with a sampling of a few worlds uploaded for asie's advent calendar of ZZT |
| A "Wake Up and Save the World" Postmortem | Dr. Dos | Dec. 16th | How a ZZM player turned into a 2nd place game jam winner. Learn all about cut content and design goals of WUASTW |
| Livestream - Invasion ZZT Revision (Part 2) | Dr. Dos | Dec. 11th | Grow as a person. Make new friends. Save humanity. Just don't drive drunk. |
| Livestream - Oktrollberfest Results Streams | KKairos/WiL | Dec. 5th | Not one, but two award ceremonies for the games created for Oktrollberfest 2020! |
Latest Reviews
| File | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Darby's Crazy Town | Agent Orange | 3.5 / 5.0 |
| The King in Yellow Borders | JohnWWells | 5.0 / 5.0 |
| Castle of King Lucius | Agent Orange | 3.0 / 5.0 |
| Yith | JohnWWells | 1.5 / 5.0 |
| BUYSO | Dr. Dos | — |
| Enjoy! Sudoku | Dr. Dos | — |
| Metal Saviour Bia | Dr. Dos | — |
| Ramen Quest | Agent Orange | 4.5 / 5.0 |
| Bubbas Bubbles | YouTube | — |
| Dark Citadel | WiL | 5.0 / 5.0 |
