Tag: INTERACTIVEFICTION

What do you get when you combine the Z-Machine text adventure engine with open source phone exchange system Asterisk? Zasterisk, a novel combination of voice recognition and text-to-speech that allows you to play Zork and other Infocom text adventures over the phone. Is this something anybody really needs? Well, duh, no. Is it pretty cool? Yes. However, I take no responsibility for the looks ...

I guess since Wired has the story it must be all the rage.  But the iPod has had hyperlink capabilities for a while, and there is no shortage of crazy uses out there for it. So besides tour guides and CSS references, what else can you do with the hypertext features on the iPod? Make your own games of course.While there has yet to be a game with the wit of the old text RPG "The ...