Pokyfriends - Games

A Pico-8 platformer made for my partner parodying "Snoopy" for the Commodore 64.

Snoozefest is a ZZT world parodying "Nightmare", created for Oktrollberfest 2023. Escape from Land of Nod and the malicious Dozer, who has a series of impossible puzzles for you to solve!

The Treasure of Captain Cutlass is a retro-ZZT world where you search out the lost treasure of the feared Captain Cutlass. Explore the island in any direction in search of the purple keys that will guide you to the treasure.

2022 Dot ZZT is the third ZZT experiment compilation world by Dr. Dos. Includes artwork, the Worlds of ZZT pre-stream animation source, Wordles of ZZT experiments and more!

A ZZT demonstration world covering ZZT-OOP's commands, aimed at beginners that would like to learn by example.

Super Hang Up - A ZZT game created for Oktrollberfest 2022. Explore an arcade full of failing games. A game about not letting bugs stand in your way.

Wordles of ZZT is a proof-of-concept adaption of the popular word game into a format that's somehow compatible with ZZT v3.2. Terrifying code awaits!

2021 is the third entry in a series of annual ZZT worlds collecting various experiments, scrapped projects, art, and more made over the course of the year.

Bear With Me is a ZZT world created for Oktrollberfest 2021. The game is a traditional purple key hunting adventure, except you have to escort a bear the entire time. If the bear is harmed the game instantly ends. Have fun! Maybe!

Doug Tudeap is a score-attack ZZT world in which you operate switches to direct a mine cart past as many precious ores and gemstones as possible in a given time limit. It was created for Ludum Dare 48 compo. whose them was "Deeper and Deeper", with a 48 hour time limit.

Pennsylvania News is a ZZT trip report covering a visit to my family in 2021. It discusses games played, food eaten, sights seen, and rare cat sightings.

You're no stranger to this prank ZZT world which was submitted to Oktrollberfest 2021.

Wake Up And Unlock The Door is a ZZT world set in same small town as Wake Up And Save The World. You have accidentally locked yourself out of your home and need to get someone to bring you a spare key. Created to demonstrate a glitch in ZZT which can allow a very small of information to be sent between two distinct worlds.

Zee! is a ZZT port of Yahtzee. The game is a technical showcase revolving around how to roll fair dice in ZZT despite very limited randomization options as well as cramming the ability to parse dice rolls for scoring all on a single board. Of the 20,000 bytes of memory ZZT allocates per board, this one uses 19,983 of them.

2020 Dot ZZT is the second of a series of annual ZZT worlds collecting various experiments, scrapped projects, art, and more made over the course of the year.

COVID Maker 19 is a parody of the ZZT "ASCII Maker" series made during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was created to vent my frustrations with working retail at the time.

The Mars Rover is a ZZT game created entirely on stream while viewers were encouraged to make a similar game while they watched. The game is a purple key collecting adventure set on Mars that's focused around introducing ZZT concepts in a friendly and approachable way. Explore the Martian mall, fight your way through the robot factory, and watch out for sand worms!

Upside Town is a joke modification of Town of ZZT to turn all the boards upside down. Includes a font to make every character upside down as well!

Wake Up And Save The World is a ZZT game made for Oktrollberfest 2020. Aliens are invading the Earth, and only one child has what it takes to save the planet. Of course... they have to do some chores around the home first. Mow the lawn and put away the dishes before you take on the alien menace!

2019 is the first of a series of annual ZZT worlds collecting various experiments, scrapped projects, art, and more made over the course of the year.

Hugo's House of Horrors ZZT is a port of the MS-DOS adventure game by the same name. ZZT lacks the ability to allow users to input strings, and so the world relies on a few quirks of the game's cheat prompt to allow a "parser" to function.

OwO Who's This is a PICO8 game created for Strawberry Jam 3, a horny game jam. The game is styled after "Guess Who", with the player attempting to deduce just who they're flirting with by asking about their fursona's species, kinks, and sexuality. Contains explicit content!

Poképan Crystal is a romhack of Pokémon Crystal whose only change is to make the move "Attract" work regardless of gender. The game got some attention thanks to it originally being rejected from RHDN for being "too political".

Sisyphus is an experimental ZZT world in which you follow an infinite ping-pong-path. Ironically there's a bug with cycle timing here where if you go to fast you can reach the "end", but uh, don't. You're not supposed to! It ruins the art!!

The Unknowable Timothy Billings is a "horror" ZZT game where you have been sent to discover the whereabouts of a stern man in charge of an archaeological dig who seemingly vanished into thin air. It was inspired by the discovery of a ZZT glitch that felt like a good basis for an unknowable horror. The ending to this game works better when running in a non-web version of ZZT, but you can play it online if you'd rather.

Window Fragments is an experimental ZZT world documenting a trip to visit my family where I went into the basement and booted up a Windows 2000 PC to look for anything on its hard drive that might be worth archiving, and musing about the things I found on it.

Quickhack is a ZZT world created for Ludum Dare #38: "A Small World". The goal was to create a single board ZZT dungeon crawler with three playable classes that change your max health, method of attack, and type of ammunition. Explore a series of tiny dungeons and recover the fabled amulet of Nibor!

Ruins of ZZT is a ZZT game made for Ludum Dare 36 "Ancient Technology". You are a returning ZZT adventurer exploring the ruins of the now dead game. Except this was just as it was experiencing a modern revival. Get the purple keys and escape the ruins alive.

Pokémon Size Quiz is a quiz which selects a random set of Pokemon from generations 1-6 and aks you to guess their size in the Pokedex. Originally it had a database allowing you to share the quiz you took with another person and compare your answers. This project taught me that Golduck and Charizard are the same height.

Pokémon Type Chart Quiz is an online quiz which gives you a random attack type against a random defender type. Fill out the whole dang type chart (it may take awhile) and see how well you know your pokemon matchups!

Chimp or Chump was one of the earliest web games I ever worked on. Me and some friends saw a video of a chimpanzee flying through this memory test and thought we'd create an online version. Numbers are displayed on a grid, and you have to press them in order. After pressing the first button however, the rest of the values are all obscured, testing your short term memory. Can you remember the positions of a ten digit sequence?