Wiki:Scope

NOTE: This page is definitely a draft.

What is this wiki about? ZZT! What precisely is ZZT related? That's the question this page tries to answer.

Lists on this page are not exhaustive, but they should give some overall sense of what is in scope.

Definitely in scope

Articles on the following topics are definitely welcome:

ZZT itself

• History of ZZT versions
• Technical info on the ZZT executable itself, ZZT.DAT, etc
• Anatomy of a world: components (boards, title screen, etc) and file formats
• Tile types: player, lion, solid, etc.
• ZZT-OOP
• How ZZT executes a board (stat order, counter behavior, bugs, etc)
• The built-in editor: behavior, bugs, accessible colors and properties, etc
• Any other behavior built into ZZT, e.g., the Game Controller/Video Mode prompt shown at startup

Using ZZT

• Running ZZT: FreeDOS boot disks, DOSBox, Zeta
• Tools for making worlds: toolkits, external editors, font creation utilities, etc
• Techniques for creating ZZT worlds: player clones, the kangaroo effect, etc

ZZT worlds

• The worlds that come with ZZT: Town, Caves, City, Demo, Dungeons, Tour

In scope, but deferred to a later date

I want these topics to be documented, but I'm not 100% sure what the scope should be. Maybe we can focus on creating articles that are definitely in scope first, and come back to this later?

ZZT worlds

• Published ZZT worlds
• Any relevant in-jokesor background info needed to understand a world

The ZZT community

• Community history: significant events (e.g., release of STK, AOL shutdown) and when they happened
• ZZT sites and archives
• Community gathering places (Zeuxworld, IRC)

People

• Creators of ZZT worlds
• People who played significant roles in the community, but never made a world?
• People from the greater ZZT/Zeux community?

ZZT-inspired software

• Successors and clones: Super ZZT, Megazeux, ZIG