The Black Tower

The Black Tower is a large text-only interactive fiction fantasy game, very much in the 'old-school' style. I originally wrote it in Microsoft BASIC for the Commodore PET in 1983, but although it is pretty dated, with mazes, possibility of sudden death and ability to get into unwinnable situations, I thought the basic concept sound enough to merit re-writing it  for the PC using qBasic64, and this is the result.

Although there are some mazes, decorative/non-functional rooms and a very few red herring items, I have very much reduced these from the original version and for those mazes which I have kept I have greatly reduced their complexity. There are actually very few red herrings (offhand I can only think of four, and they are all in the same general area).

One concession I have made is that the inventory is essentially unlimited, which is very different from the original game and should make things a little easier.

Several MP3 files are included in the downloaded zip file to produce sound effects, but presence of these files is not essential for the game to run. Sound effects may play either automatically in certain locations or on the occurrence of certain events. Sound functionality can be toggled off and on using the command SOUND.