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Infocom Text Game Source Code Released on GitHub (Including Zork)

posted by chromas on Friday April 19 2019, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

You can now download the source code for all Infocom text adventure classics

The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to code-sharing repository GitHub, allowing savvy programmers to examine and build upon some of the most beloved works of digital storytelling to date.

There are numerous repositories under the name historicalsource, each for a different game. Titles include, but are not limited to, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall, Shogun, and several Zork games—plus some more unusual inclusions like an incomplete version of Hitchhiker's sequel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Infocom samplers, and an unreleased adaptation of James Cameron's The Abyss.

Also at Motherboard.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday April 19 2019, @04:48PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday April 19 2019, @04:48PM (#832203) Journal

    From the README.md of the Hitchhiker game:

    This collection is meant for education, discussion, and historical work, allowing researchers and students to study how code was made for these interactive fiction games and how the system dealt with input and processing. It is not considered to be under an open license.

    So you are allowed to look at it and talk about it, but nothing else.

    Which probably means that if you consider the mere possibility that you'll ever in your life want to write adventures, you're probably better off to never even look at the code.

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday April 19 2019, @07:46PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Friday April 19 2019, @07:46PM (#832260) Homepage

    That's not a license, and it's not written by the copyright holder. The author of the readme almost certainly has no authority to issue licenses or otherwise give permission to anyone to use the code in any way. You aren't allowed to even copy the code (got clone it).

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