Sadly, my blog became uninteresting to me and by the time I thought to revive it, I had lost all the posts. And so begins another…
As a long time ColdFusion Developer, I have a loyalty to the language and platform. However, I have strong interests elsewhere. Among them is Android development. To get into a new language, it’s always good to have a project that interests you. For me, that project is the revival of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — the classic text adventure from Infocom.
As a kid, I loved playing the game on our Atari 800XL. We had obtained a bootleg copy of Zork I and completed the game, so when my brother got a copy of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for Christmas, despite not being familiar with the famous novel by Douglas Adams, we were very excited. The unique story-telling style, characters and language in the game made it one of the most enjoyable and memorable text adventure games. Thanks to a couple of open source initiatives in Java, I’ve compiled a working install of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I plan to make available as a free download for Android.
I spent about an hour playing it the other day and can safely say that it works, though some unforeseen bugs may be lurking. Hopefully I can get some feedback from the user base upon release that will help keep it stable and well used by retro gaming fans. More to come…
#1 by chadk on May 9, 2011 - 7:56 pm
I would love a copy of this if you are willing. be happy to help test it.