I guess I'm a bit nostalgic. Why else would I do this? (Because I can.)

I dream of better games. Games that put smiles on faces and make people say things like, "Did you fucking see that?! That was so fucking cool!" So I recall a bit of my childhood and a type of game that kept me entertained well into the darkness of night. Interactive fiction has been around forever and one of the earliest successes in mainstream games was Zork. Don’t know it? Here, have a read...

But I don’t want to merely repeat the past. (I do that just fine in other areas of my life, thanks.) I must add some new twist, some new bit of innovation. So why not take an old school game wrap an insanely successful social network around it and let people virally play across the web?

Yeah. Sounds cool.

I give you z0rk. Play it on Twitter. Better yet, make sure you have your cell phone setup as a device on your own Twitter account. Then you get to play from your cell phone via text messaging Tweets! Don’t know Twitter? Here, sign up...

Some tips to help you out:

1. If you don't have a Twitter account, sign up.
2. Follow z0rk. Either type "follow z0rk" in your status, via web or text message to 40404, or go to the z0rk Twitter page and click the "follow" button on top.
3. To send z0rk commands, use direct messages like "d z0rk look" or "d z0rk read leaflet". HINT HINT
4. To turn off score alerts, type "off z0rk" or go to the z0rk Twitter page and click on "Device updates ON". You will still be able to send and receive direct messages to play.
5. Some basic commands can be found here. All these need to be sent via direct messages- "d z0rk [command]".

look - "d z0rk look" - Look around to get a description of your current location.
take [object] - "take egg" - HINT HINT Take an object and put it in your inventory.
enter [portal] - "enter door" - Enter a new location through a door or window.
n,s,e,w - "north" or "n" - Move in a specific direction to the next location.

Have fun! And let me what you think.