Undying Dusk bi lahko verodostojno trdil, da je najdaljša knjiga o pustolovščinah po izbiri, ki si jo lahko izbereš sam, kar jih je bilo kdaj napisano, saj je v zajetno datoteko PDF, ki obsega 200,000 strani, strnjen pajek po ječah s popolnimi funkcijami.
Brezplačno na voljo na Itch.io, Lucas Cimon’s retro RPG doesn’t immediately jump off the page—after all, there are dozens of classic dungeon crawlers on the store. That is, until you realise the game is effectively one giant book, each page a single frame of its sprawling labyrinth.
It works in the same way as any old paperback adventure book. But instead of explicitly saying “turn to page 56 to slay a goblin”, each page has a faux-UI full of directions, actions, and menu buttons that link to other parts of the document. There are even musical cues, with soundtrack buttons that’ll open your web browser to play some fantasy tunes.
Cimon claims that, to the best of his knowledge, this is “the very first video game in a PDF format”. That might not be entirely true (a cursory search shows some simple nič-in-križci igre in a zdaj razbit labirint), but Undying Dusk is certainly the most elaborate—a fully realised fantasy world featuring 10 locations, an overworld, and a cutscene-driven plot. In keeping with the spirit of old adventure games, it’s also pretty brutal, sporting thousands of game over screens and only a single path to victory.
Undying Dusk je brezplačen za prenos. Cimon priporoča, da ga predvajate na Sumatri, čeprav bi ga bilo mogoče predvajati na skoraj vseh programih za branje PDF (razen Adobe Reader, iz tehničnih razlogov).
Vir: https://www.pcgamer.com/this-dungeon-crawler-is-built-inside-a-200000-page-pdf
