Undying Dusk kan ha ett trovärdigt anspråk på att vara den längsta välj-ditt-eget-äventyrsboken som någonsin skrivits, genom att stoppa in en fullfjädrad dungeon-crawler i en rejäl 200,000 XNUMX sidors PDF-fil.
Tillgänglig gratis över på 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 luffarschack spel och en nu bruten labyrint), 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 är gratis att ladda ner. Cimon rekommenderar att du spelar det på Sumatra, även om det borde kunna spelas på i stort sett alla program för PDF-läsning (förutom Adobe Reader, av tekniska skäl).
Källa: https://www.pcgamer.com/this-dungeon-crawler-is-built-inside-a-200000-page-pdf
