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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Author
Dr. Dos
Publish Date
Nov 29, 2023
Category
Let's Play
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Description
Jumpin and Shooting and Stabbin and Gettin Lost but never being let down in these (mostly) non-ZZT Oktrollberfest entries
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Author
Dr. Dos
Publish Date
Nov 28, 2023
Category
Livestream
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Description
Blasting off into space only to discover it's a Freemium model. Then solving everybody's problems but your own in your search for wire cutters
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Author
Dr. Dos
Publish Date
Nov 28, 2023
Category
Closer Look
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Description
Developing one universal standard to cover everyone's use cases. But it's religion so it doesn't go so well.
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Dr. Dos
Nov 27, 2023
Livestream
Cat Jams, as in games made for jams with cats in them. And a rather unique puzzle game requiring ZZT's editor to play
Dr. Dos
Nov 24, 2023
Livestream
Escape from a terrible island filled with terrible people or suffer a terrible fate
Dr. Dos
Nov 20, 2023
Livestream
Bill Clinton loves brocolli soup. Gives bad tips. Explodes in space. The final and best ending to Code Red.
Dr. Dos
Nov 17, 2023
Livestream
Dive in to Oktrollberfest as children scream at bounty hunters in goofy alien costumes and Dos screams at backwards centipedes
Dr. Dos
Nov 14, 2023
Closer Look
An incredible game that I couldn't put down. Shame about the vampire invasion in France though.
Dr. Dos
Nov 12, 2023
Livestream
Wake up Tim Gallagher, and save the world!
Dr. Dos
Nov 08, 2023
Livestream
A pair of games and a trio of games about pairs. One of which goes from brilliant to a bit too disturbing
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