Amazing elisp project of the day: an interpreter for Z code! https://github.com/jimm/elisp/blob/master/malyon.el (Z is a common language for text adventure games)
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An ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a text adventure game -- or as I like to call it, a compiler.
Inform, the programming language built for writing interactive fiction (i.e. text adventure games), is now open source.
The compiler and toolchain may also be the largest literate programming codebase to date!
Emergent behaviour of agents in early text adventure games (The Hobbit, released 1982): https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit
