Mystery House (Remodeled) – a ground-up rebuild for the Pico-8

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After bringing Zork to the Pico-8 via Status Line (a z-machine interpreter for the system), I had been thinking about bringing a graphic text adventure to the system within the single-cart limitation of 64K. Today I have released Mystery House (Remodeled), which brings all graphics, text, *and bugs* (intentionally so) of this public domain classic to the Pico-8. It is GPLv3 and available on GitHub: https://github.com/ChristopherDrum/mystery_house_remodeled Two graphics tools, Versawriter-8 and 1 Bit Wonder, were also built to support this project. More details about those, and their source code, will be released in the coming weeks. These were instrumental in helping me squeeze the 140K original down to just 60K (.p8.png cart size). Blogs which address the interactive fiction (software archaeology POV) and Pico-8 dev ("making your own graphic adventure" POV) communities are in the works. I hope this project is of interest to the HN community.

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