Getting Started
If you are new to text-adventure gaming, no worries, just start typing. Try out something
simple first, like look around or help.
Wth?! Why would anyone invest the time and effort to build such a useless game?
Well, I had
just got back from a party where the concept of a Pac-Man + Zork hybrid came up as a joke.
So, being 2am with a little alcohol in my system,
I thought it'd be funny to code it up (as far as I could before collapsing). So,
a couple hours later it was looking complete-ish (minus the ghosts' AIs and graphic assets). The next
morning [read: afternoon] when I woke up, since I have an inability to realize sunk costs, I
decided to throw some crappy AI in for the ghosts, put a few graphics on it
(courtesy of FastIcon.com) and voila! A domain name purchase or
two later, and here we go.
Marketing Potential "Mixing the classic VIC-20* text-adventure games' style with the enthralling plot of Pac-Man
for the ultimate in retro gaming action, we present Pac-txt." *No sys 32592 or "Press play on tape" necessary.
Cheats
Since you've gone through the effort of reading this far, we'll give you a few useful
cheats. Try out debug, autolook or autonibble.