Freeze

This repo contains several ZZT related projects.

• Freeze 2: A ZZT compatible game editor in Java. It gives precise control over stats and other details.
• ZZT Search: Code for loading ZZT worlds into Lucene, and for searching ZZT worlds.
• Freeze 1: A ZZT compatible-ish game engine in Java. It can (sort of) play ZZT and SuperZZT games, and can edit both ZZT and SuperZZT games.

Freeze 2

Freeze 2 is an advanced ZZT world editor. It intends to provide fine-grained control over the world file. It supports directly manipulating the stats list (for example, to create clown car objects or reordering stats), advanced manipulation of stats and OOP (supporting adding any byte sequence into the OOP text), and more.

The editor supports several view modes to quickly understand ZZT worlds - including modes for walkability, presence or order of stats or OOP, monochrome palette, "hidden" empty colors, SuperZZT maximum possible visible window, and more.

At this time Freeze 2 does not support any gameplay. Freeze 2 is also useful for extracting text and data from ZZT worlds, and for programmatically generating ZZT worlds.

To run:

1. Run mvn clean install to build the application.
2. Run java -jar freeze2/target/freeze2-1.0-zztsearch-SNAPSHOT.jar

ZZT Search

• Want to find that one game with the guy who says that one thing?
• Want to know how many ZZT worlds have bathrooms in them?
• Want to find easter eggs?

Enter the "ZZT Search" application, which can be used to scan a filesystem of ZZT games and load them into Apache Lucene. A user can then search through the text messages, both OOP and text written on the board.

In the future, this could be expanded to load the text into Elasticsearch.

How to start the ZZT Search application

1. Run mvn clean install to build your application
2. Build the index java -jar zztsearch-web/target/zztsearch-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar index zztsearch-web/config.yml
3. Start application with java -jar zztsearch-web/target/zztsearch-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar server zztsearch-web/config.yml
4. To check that your application is running enter url http://localhost:8080

Freeze 1

The Freeze 1 engine loads and plays ZZT games, but due to differences in program design (mainly having to do with not preserving stats ordering), it is not capable of correctly playing a number of ZZT worlds. The engine code here is now many years old and is unlikely to receive updates.

Playing ZZT games using Freeze may not be very interesting due to the Reconstruction of ZZT now being available.

License

Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3.

Copyright 2011, 2020, 2022 Isaac Brodsky.

Thanks

In addition to being inspired by Tim Sweeney's ZZT, I was helped by the Mystical Winds Encyclopedia and its description of the internals of ZZT.

This project incorporates parts of the Reconstruction of ZZT and the Reconstruction of Super ZZT, used under the terms of the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2020 Adrian Siekierka.

Based on a reconstruction of code from ZZT, Copyright 1991 Epic MegaGames, used with permission.