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.
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Dr. Dos | Jan 30, 2025 | Livestream | More unique ideas, engines too powerful for ZZT, and strange stories from WiL. Also Mega Man with a time machine. |
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Dr. Dos | Jan 28, 2025 | Closer Look | Cosmo's been promoted to captain, and he's going to do everything he can other than go to space to rescue the mayor's wife. |
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Dr. Dos | Jan 25, 2025 | Livestream | A farmer, a monk, a princess, and a bird/god walk into another dimension... a grand fantasy epic for ZZT that actually has end! |
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Dr. Dos | Jan 22, 2025 | Livestream | WiL puzzles. WiL tells stories. WiL goes to purgatory. And an unrelated miner strikes it rich |
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Dr. Dos | Jan 18, 2025 | Livestream | A playthrough of one of the original ZZT worlds for ZZT's 34th birthday! |
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Dr. Dos | Jan 18, 2025 | Livestream | Games with unusual visual styles, a too-edgy-for-AOL comedy, and some really creative puzzle games |
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Dr. Dos | Jan 14, 2025 | Closer Look | Stepping outside into a dying world to rescue your loved one, and maybe save yourself in the process. Or maybe neither! |
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