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My baby don't mess around, because I love her so, and this I know with utmost certainty.

Ha! This was a great watch, it was wild to see which jokes/references we were on the same wavelength for. Glad you enjoyed it and I hope you do more like this. Subscribed to your channel. (Also, you can hit SPACE to skip to the end of a service if you want)

With the upgrade to 1.8.13, you should be able to start a new game.

 New best. Week 68. I think with perfect play you can squeeze out one more week (nice!)

Thanks for your kind comments! To note: much of what I'm doing now wasn't possible 25 years ago or even 5 years ago with ZZT. It's only because of the rediscovery and reconstruction of the source code, and the Weave 3 modding tool (https://meangirls.itch.io/weave-3) that these games are possible in their current format. (A downscaled version of them is almost certainly still possible in vanilla ZZT, but would have taken many more months and the end result been less interesting IMO)

It's a good sign when folks play and wish there was even more game - branching paths, multiple endings, pickier customers with more complex habits. I agree, I think this one could go bigger and offer dedicated players more challenge and opportunity. A small update coming at the end of the month addresses a couple ambiguities you mentioned, but rescoping the game for more content isn't possible; ZZT is already bursting at the seams holding the current game. Still it's very cool to think about. Whatever I end up making next, I'll try to leave myself some room at the end to add more content later. (Or pick an engine that can handle more than 63.5kb at the same time lol)

You've been blessed! There's an extremely small chance that Flora and Brassica will persist through playthroughs and show up at the beginning of a future game.

How you doin chat? Can you beat this score?

Fixed - you can load your ASDF.SAV now, no problems

I'm also unable to reload my web saves - the emulator seems to be using the same db to store multiple ZZT games in and the save directories are interfering with one another. I've pinged the creator of the emulator to see how we might sort it out. Hang tight

Holy ?! It is a bug! I will patch this in a future release, but for now you can type ?noclip to get yourself back in the skypertube and type ?clip once you're inside to finish the puzzle. Thank you for finding this, I have in my notes that I tested this exact scenario, so it must have regressed at some point.

Imma test and get back to you. I thought I covered that edge case but I'll walk back through and confirm.

Food!

Aww man - when I realized how easy it was to make retrograde progress, I did feel very trolled. What a delight though. I don't know how much game there is, I played it for quite a while and I was still discovering new rooms. I'll be playing this after the voting period too.

I played this on stream, unfortunately the stream cut off before I was finished reading the rules

I went way too hard on this (349) and then the ending happened and I said "HYYUUUUUGGGGHHHH"

This is PHENOMENAL. Not only was it an amazing shaggy dog, but holy shit some of the puzzles/action sequences I felt myself approaching genuine madness. The trick to a trollgame is to keep tantalizing the player with possibility, feed them just enough progress that it keeps them playing, and then adds just enough unfair each time to ruin them. This was maybe the most effective trollgame in the lot, because it kept me playing for the longest and had me big mad nearly the entire time. I love this. Love love love this.

Holy sh- outstanding. I said aloud, to my screen, "Now this is some goddamn fuckery."

While it is wonderful that many beautiful games of length owe their existence to this contest, it's even more wonderful, to me, that the contest continues to deliver unique ZZT experiences. I've never played a ZZT game where the game is just all "figure me out in the editor, fucko, if you dare" and then makes me decide how much editing is actually required and whether I've actually "won". Bravo.

Beautiful. I managed to do the things, I am still working on the bear. The needing to rearrange the buttons for quick fiddlywinks on the zoo-zah was really a nice touch. I liked the real subtle trolls like the complete lack of juice on the pingpong to indicate whether the object was actually touched or not.

Good engine, very trolly. I like how we got different layers of annoying as we went along, an exploration of the pet peeves of the creator. I not able to beat the last level. 

I had to revisit and re-rate because I missed one!

While ZZTort purports to be a game in the "classic" style, the thing it has that eluded the "lost" games we see nearly every week - polish - is also present in the other three offerings to various degrees. Fire1000 feels like it would have fit right in with the entries of the last 2.4HoBKZZT - a slightly janky, fully softlockable, expression of a core idea. Dink is the most ambitious and would have been an absolute nightmare to debug - I didn't encounter any game-breaking bugs or other major flaws the entire time I played - remarkable!

[Edit: Super Wall Puncher's the one I missed. And genuinely, flawless. I played through three times and got a different ending each time. The punchiest ending really doesn't disappoint. Gave me genuine big laughs]

"Remarkable" is correct all round. Aggressively weird trolls from left field combined with ones I saw coming a mile away. A rich tapestry that managed to amuse again and again. Bravo.

Bright and colorful and strange and beautiful, with legit trolls and a couple moments where I found myself laughing helplessly at the screen. A superb La Vie, superb Weaving, and as always I love the fact that it's a reinterpretation of known source material, the ZZT-official-equivalent of reversing the hard ceramic back into soft clay to be sponged into a new shape.

Hell's 5k Annual Fun Run

An auspicious number of deaths! ^_^

Post your YOU WIN screen!

I loved every of the jobs. The one proper troll in the middle is very special to me. This filled me with joy. I love it so much. Thank you for it.

^ I am referring all future questions about the game to this comment.

verasev has an uncanny ability to create modern ZZT action games with diverse, viable playstyles, a talent which is on full display here. I love playing a Belmont with strong whip action, I love the diverse subweapons, the bosses, the environments. I am not quite skilled enough to make it all the way to the end on my own merits, but I'm save-scumming my way through it and enjoying every second.

Love it. Love it love it love it. Wonderfully polished movement, very "grippy" and the character never moved in a way that didn't make sense or felt unnatural (at least inasfar as a kid in a Davy Crockett hat climbing a thirty foot wall can seem "natural"). Fun mechanics, very polished and tight world with each room introducing one or two new design ideas apiece. Bravo. This is the game to beat.

That is indeed true! All links are updated and PATCH-1 now contains the fix for this.

Not mine but play it I loved it

https://kkairos.itch.io/rest-stop-23

My attempt to lure my friend onto the bed for friendly times did not go as planned.

Dang, that's one I haven't seen before!  If you still have your save game, you can type "?keys" and proceed to the next level of the tower.

It was a great fest!  I loved playing all your games.  Thank you everyone!

Update: Satan did, in fact, beat me.

Updated Update: I was unaware at the time that multiple satans had joined the compo.

*Pulls up the movie script*

Oh you are NOT beating me today, Satan.

If you're having trouble running the game, you can try what I did:

1. Copy the zombieman.jar and rename it to zombieman.zip
2. Unzip zombieman.zip and move the contents into a folder called 'resources'
3. Create a folder called 'main' and move the 'resources' folder into it.
4. Create a folder called 'src' and move the 'main' folder into it.

Your directory structure should look like this:

• zombieman.jar
• src\
  • main\
    • resources\
      
      • contents of zombieman.zip

Then run 'java -jar zombieman.jar' from the main directory, or create a ZOM.BAT that runs 'java -jar zombieman.jar' and run that.

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MAKE YOUR PEACE WITH SPOILERS BEFORE ENTERING

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Sprinkle Oktrollberfest with some savory Trollvember Salt!   I'll start:

Nobody:

No One:

Literally No One:

Level 5: "You know the perfect accessory for Monofoot McStraitjacket here?  A blindfold." 

wow this was really special.  worth it just to dive in and explore.  It will give you feelings

P L A Y   W I T H   M E

11/10 would play again

actually did play again because I wanted to see what happened when I did things a little differently

wow
12/10

Armor Guide:
Junkyard: (1)Brown pants (||) on the west side, (2)Brown Shoes (") on the east side, (3)Gray shirt (0, at the very topmost square of junkyard) and two shoulders, one(4) gray in the top left and one(5) brown in the bottom right.

5th street alley: (6)Cent sign on the left side after your encounter with the Deformed Man.

8th street alley: Alice and Joey appear when you enter their 'flop' along the top center of the alley.  Complete their questline by following the directions at Whysots and come back to them after doing so for the (7)Gauntlets.


(What is this?  A walkthrough for ants?)

Lemme know if that helps.