Multiplayer Zork coming to your browser — Boing Boing Offworld

Cory Doctorow 10:48 am Wed Jan 14, 2009

Now here's a nice bit of news from Offworld: Zork's going to be an MMO!

Today's guardedly optimistic revival: casual MMO developer Jolt (they of the recent Google Maps enhanced long-distance trucker MMO Trukz [which friend of Offworld Mathew Kumar recently detailed]) have announced a revival of Infocom's foundational text adventure Zork as a browser-based casual MMO.

Though they haven't yet detailed how the game itself will operate, they have said Legends of Zork will provide a persistent world for all its players, who will take the role of a "laid-off salesman and part-time loot-gatherer, as he explores the Great Underground Empire."

Jolt reviving Zork as browser-MMO,

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