Introduction

If you venture north of the art gallery in Zork I, you'll find a paper attached to the wall:

>EXAMINE PAPER

CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU ARE THE PRIVILEGED OWNER OF A
GENUINE ZORK GREAT UNDERGROUND EMPIRE
(PART I), A SELF CONTAINED AND SELF
MAINTAINING UNIVERSE. IF USED AND
MAINTAINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH NORMAL
OPERATING PRACTICES FOR SMALL UNIVERSES,
ZORK WILL PROVIDE MANY MONTHS OF
TROUBLE-FREE OPERATION. PLEASE CHECK
WITH YOUR DEALER FOR PART II AND OTHER
ALTERNATE UNIVERSES.

I quite liked the idea of a self-contained and self-maintaining universe, as well as alternate universes, and thought I might try to create one.

This project is a kind of single-player MUD, or maybe "open world" "interactive fiction". I don't know if the idea makes any sense at all. I've had some great experiences playing MUDs, roguelikes, and interactive fiction over the years, and this is an attempt to capture and expand on some of that. Perhaps in a form that I might work on for the rest of my life, my own personal Dwarf Fortress.

In this "book," I'm going to try to formally structure my ideas a bit in a more narrative form than GitHub Projects, issues, epics, etc allow. I expect this project to take quite a while, assuming I live to complete it, so I figure it's worth getting things down on paper (so to speak).