The ZORK™ 2D Project
Zork is a registered trade mark of Activision
Hello
Sailor !
(move out, lurking grue, this is MY armchair)
Welcome Adventurer to the ZORK 2D Project page.
My name is Lord Dimwit Flathead The Excessive and I am the last Emperor of the (sadly) former Great Underground Empire (GUE in short). I was born in 723 GUE and died the 14 Mumberbur 789 GUE because of the Curse of Megaboz (may he be cursed too until his thousand generation!).
But this doesn't prevent me to be delighted to be your PR for the ZORK 2D Project today. You will find here all you wish to know about this great adventure.
So, here we are.
What is the ZORK 2D Project? Well, ZORK I was published back to 1977 (read its story here) by four Infocom MIT Engineers, Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson (may they be blessed until their thousand generation!), I decided it was time in 2023 to move from the characters-only screen you see above to this:
(click the image and enjoy the RPG Maker MV proof of
concept. No sound yet.) 
Updated Tasks List
| Task | Completion status |
| Get ZORK I sources, detailed maps (1, 2) and walkthrough | done |
| Learning RPG Maker MV (doc 1, 2, 3, 4, Help files of the PC version) | 100% (PS4 version - manual in French) |
| Learning RPG Maker MZ (doc, Help files of the PC version) | 1%
 |
| Convert Infocom map to Excel | 20% (see here) on hold |
| Draw all maps within MV | main house 95% (see here) |
| Add items in maps (decor, furniture, treasures, etc.) | |
| Code events | |
| Create other characters | |
| Add fights |
Volumes
| Item in sources | Qty | Comments |
| LOCATIONS | 78 | places where the player can move (or not) but which are not rooms |
| ROOMS | 110 | locations enclosed with walls |
| OBJECTS | 122 | (obvious) |
| OBJ DESC | 116 | objects long description (example: WATER -> quantity of water) |
| FOUND | 23 | what may be discovered when entrering a location/room |
| UP | 26 | action |
| DOWN | 32 | action |
| NORTH | 44 | action |
| SOUTH | 46 | action |
| EAST | 51 | action |
| WEST | 50 | action |
| IN | 70 | action |
| OUT | 4 | action |
| NE | 9 | north-east action |
| NW | 10 | north-west action |
| SE | 7 | south-east action |
| SW | 12 | south-west action |
| LAND | 7 | action of landing with the "magic boat" when possible |
(data available in EXCEL format extracted from the mainframe sources available on GitHub).
Goodies: The De Blauwe Schicht page on Zork
Contributors warmly welcome (mainly RPG Maker
MV Gurus). Please get in touch.
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Page updated on 10/11/23