♦ Livestream of 9 ZZT worlds. ♦
♦ Stream Contents ♦
• (1:51) "Planet of the Stars (Demo)" by WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/pos/]
• (8:57) "SkyQube" by Lynx, WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/skyqube/]
• (11:17) "Distraction (Demo)" by WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/distract/]
• (18:36) "Myst Clone Engine (Demo)" by WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/mystdemo/]
• (21:53) "Heisenburg Made A Boo-Boo" by WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/hmb/]
• (24:02) "Land of Hat" by WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/loh/]
• (27:15) "Another Day At Work" by Tony Clifton, WiL (2001) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/day-work/]
• (37:14) "Who Da Man" by Viovis (2012) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/whodaman/]
• (43:46) "Komputerwelt" by WiL (2000) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/kompwelt/]
Barreling through more of WiL's incomplete games!
"Planet of the Stars" tells the story of the Pie People and the child that was human who was thus made queen. The end.
"SkyQube" has some great Lisa Frank level rainbow artwork, introducing us to metal fields that begin to take over the rainbow plane, polluting it and darkening the sky. You have been sent to help, manipulating the SkyQube in some sort of puzzle that you won't get to play.
"Distraction" continues the abstract introduction sequences, bringing us another look at this recurring all-powerful Jabe character who seems to show up in a number of WiL's projects of this era. You are a devil named Adja seeking power from those who fear you. You knock on the door of one such person... The end.
"Myst Clone Engine" uses some similar tech to the ZZT first person adventure game "4", having players use ZZT's awful mouse mode to steer a cursor to hotspots on the screen by covering up fake walls. 4, which is a finished game, has more to do and more interactions than just moving around as depicted here, but this engine would have beaten 4's release by up to seven months. More importantly however, WiL realized that this engine desperate needs to be ran with ZZT set to a faster game speed than default.
"Heisenberg Made A Boo-Boo" is perhaps the slightest of all these games. You get about three sentences about the Titans returning to the moon after millenia of wandering, a picture of the moon with some green bits, and then an empty board.
"Land of Hat", is described as a gaiden game for Banana Quest. Like "SaMM'S Game" seen previously, there's nothing here except a few boards of an island floating in the sky. Except this time, not a single object or piece of text to be found.
"Another Day At Work" is one of the more playable games this stream. You decide to finally try and connect with a fellow coworker in your little cubicle farm, attempting to share a mutual interest in Harry Potter (It was 2001 after all.) only to be caught slacking off the by manager, and demoted to doing phone surveys. I guess it still sounds like a very short game, but there are conversations to be had, and some branching dialog paths that make a board and a half experience last closer to ten minutes.
"Who Da Man" was the main event of the stream, a 2012 Viovis creation. You get the expected house-style from a Viovis title, sharp cuts into blended fades from light to dark, chaotic arrangements of tiles that look nothing like a "traditional" ZZT game, and odd text captions to explain that it is (spoilers) you who is da man.
And all that took hardly 40 minutes of recording so we opted to tack on one extra game, "Komputerwelt". A good call, because this one had a strong intro and suggest split paths (though only one path has anything coded.) You are but a humble baker that receives a package from a stranger containing a disk that may change the fate of humanity. After taking it to the police, the feds collect you and you begin to learn that a long forgotten plan to prevent Earth from dying is still underway, and you are now the only one that can interact with one of the critical pieces of the puzzle.
It's intriguing, and has you explore a virtual cube within a computer before the boards run out. Definitely one I'd have loved to see finished back in the day.
♦ Play these worlds directly in your browser ♦
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/pos/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/skyqube/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/distract/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/mystdemo/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/hmb/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/loh/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/day-work/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/whodaman/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/kompwelt/
♦ Originally streamed on February 2nd, 2025 ♦
