Description
[*Warning* Playing Frotz involves reading, thinking, and typing. If you just want to blow stuff up, this is not the app for you!]
Burned out on all the new-fangled graphics and dazzling eye candy on your shiny new iPhone or iPad? Nostalgic for a simpler time? Then take advantage of those crisp high-resolution fonts to relive the glory days of the Great Underground Empire, or play any of hundreds of great works from the Interactive Fiction archive.
Frotz lets you play free works of Interactive Fiction (a.k.a. text adventure games) on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
Frotz plays titles written in the Z-Machine format. This format was invented by Infocom and was used to produce classic text adventures from the 80s such as the Zork Trilogy, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Trinity.
In the past decade, text adventures have experienced a renaissance due to the efforts of a diverse Internet community of talented interactive fiction writers and fans. Many of these games are written using the same engine that powered Infocom's titles, thanks to the Inform compiler and authoring system created by Graham Nelson.
NOTE! If you have suggestions for improving Frotz or encounter bugs, please go to the support link and report them. I have no way to respond if you only report bugs in reviews!
Frotz for iOS - Interactive Fiction at Your Fingertips
What's New in Version 1.5.3
- Readability: Wider margins and spacing for better readability on iPad.
- Unicode: Improved Unicode text support for games with non-Latin characters.
- Updated glulx support: Now conforms to standard spec 3.1.2.
- Graphics improvements: Performance and stability of games using glk graphics improved; Frotz now supports inline images in text.
- VoiceOver support: Fixed bug preventing automatic announcement of new output in glulx games.
- Keyboard: Improved support for playing with a Bluetooth keyboard (you can now scroll via keyboard and no longer have to tap the screen).
- Other bug fixes: New FTP server compatible with more clients; restored 'Open in' functionality for launching Frotz from other apps.
Customer Reviews
Consuming all my game time
Minor bugs aside (which have easy workarounds for the most part, and I'm reporting), this is a fantastic app. Literally years of games available for free, solid interface, zero crashes. Excellent work.
Very addictive!!!
I downloaded this app to play zork after I discovered it on cod black ops however they have a variety of text based games that are extremely addictive!!! 9:05 is absolutely my favorite one yet :) I would recommend this app to everyone!!
This introduced me to a new type of game
Interactive fiction is great, I loved this kind of game and I even started to learn to write this! (inform7 is great)
- Free
- Category: Games
- Updated: Jun 10, 2011
- Version: 1.5.3
- Size: 57.1 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Craig Smith
- © 2008-2011 Craig Smith
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
