Vera, Marco, and Josh stood dressed in the tattered remains of what had once been Texas Longhorn football uniforms, stained with grass and blood, each with a number pinned to their chest – Marco was 168, Josh 169, and Vera – chest bound with tape bandage and wearing a fake mustache – was 170. She…
“Okay,” Marco said. “Everybody agreed we’re going to do what we can for Jim and those holed up in the mall. Head south, hit the capitol building. Right? Josh?” “Right,” Josh agreed. “And if we don’t find help there… well, we tried our best. We get the hell out of town.” “You with us Toni?”…
There has been sufficient interest to develop Zeitgeist 1980 further, so here’s the plan going forward. First off, I’ll be developing the game into an ongoing serial. New episodes will be added regularly, available in the next “update” of the game. Saving at the end of one lets you continue on in the next, with…
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 For the first time in months, Trip was smiling while plowing the soil outside the south gate. It did not go unnoticed. “You are in fine spirits,” Bignose said, stopping to watch his fellow farmer work. “The sun shines bright on my back,”…
Today marks the public release of Zeitgeist 1980’s version 1.0. This marks the end of development, aside from any bugs discovered after the fact – hopefully after weeks of beta-testing we’ve caught them all, but you never know. Postmortem The biggest lesson this project taught me was about scope creep. I had initially planned the…
Following up on the feedback I’ve gotten from the beta test, I’ve released Zeitgeist 1980 v 1.0 to my supporters on Patreon. I’ll update the publicly available version to 1.0 in February. What’s left to be done? Honestly, it depends on response. The core of the game is complete, but there’s always room for more…
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 As Clay and Mad Words neared Jericho’s East gate, they saw a figure waiting for them, standing among a flock of sheep. Dawn Spring. She was standing. Watching. Waiting between them and the city, only a few hundred yards from the walls. Clay’s…
The Twine interactive fiction game Zeitgeist 1980 is now in open beta, and I could use your help.
This seems like a good spot to stop, award some character points, and improve our characters. Since episode 2.6, everyone has made Scrounging rolls. Nick rolled Diplomacy and Knife, Vera rolled Driving, Fast Talk, and Mechanic (Automobile), Marco rolled Knife, Ashly rolled First-Aid. We give out 5 CP. I’m worried I might have missed some…
“Bob and Eddie from Everest. Lawrence and Dina from Alpha Team.” Jim listed the fallen, gravity increasing with every name. “Oscar,” Nick said. “And Oscar.” Jim was addressing a council made up of representatives from each of his teams, along with Vera and her friends, seated around a conference table in the law office of…