Hugh Perkins

Created a mini-rpg! Or the first level/stage of a full rpg, depending on how one looks at it…

It’s here:

• Play in browser (needs Java applets enabled; no save or restore)
• Download z-code (needs z-code interpreter such as frotz or xzip, note that jzip doesn’t support restore)

I’ve put quite a lot of work into making it easy to use. For example:

• Most things (in theory, everything, but I know there are surely slips…) report what you can do to it, when you “examine” them
• Locations report location-specific things you can do, like “buy” or “save”, when you do “look”
• The cave map… I wanted it to be more than one room, but I didn’t want some endless maze, since any complicated map will be hard to remember, so, well, you can see for yourself how well the method works ok?

The game includes, well I kept it as simple as possible, to make it something I could finish, rather than just some impossible-to-finish thing, but it has:

• two different weapons
• three monsters, plus a boss monster
• a simple quest to complete
• a shop
• health potions
• a simple village
• a simple dungeon
• a simple battle system

It’s heavily based on Final Fantasy III, but that’s not a bad thing I feel since it means it’s something I can finish, and because Final Fantasy III was, and is, fairly successful.

It’s not graphical, you can’t have everything…

New version of fanjiechaodan, with list of things you can do

Old version:

>x phone

Blue plastic telephone with large white buttons.
As you touch the phone, it rings.

New version:

>x phone
As you touch the phone, it rings.

The phone is ringing. Pick it up!

Things you can do to the telephone: answer.

You can play it in your java-enabled web browser here or download the z-code file and run it in a z-code interpreter on your computer.