Pixel Prose [Commodore 64], [Amstrad CPC], [DOS]
A downloadable game
A forest dreams in 8-bit
You wake in a place older than logic and stranger than myth.
Light filters through fractal leaves.
A paddle hums beneath the soil.
Arkanoid is blooming. Lemmings have fallen.
Ghosts wait to be eaten.
This is a text adventure.
But not like you remember.
Or maybe exactly like you remember -
if you remember it from somewhere deeper.
Written in BASIC and machine code for the C64 and Amstrad CPC.
In C for MS-DOS.
No parser libraries. No modern frameworks.
Just memory, moss, and myth, woven into 40/80 columns.
Solve puzzles. Eat ghosts. Free the Architect.
| Updated | 2 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Rating | Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
| Author | Tarjan |
| Genre | Adventure, Interactive Fiction |
| Tags | Amstrad CPC, c-64, Commodore 64, cpc, Fantasy, Mystery, poetry, text-adventure, Text based |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Text |
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Install instructions
On Amstrad CPC, insert the disk (image) and type RUN "PIXEL"
For C64:
Use Vice C64 or a real Commodore 64.
You can load the .vsf file directly into Vice. It is a snapshot of the running game. Or you can load from the .d64 file in Vice. Type:
load"*",8
run
Development log
- MS-DOS version released2 days ago
- Ported Pixel Prose to Amstrad CPCJul 28, 2025



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The Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 versions start in a Deep Forest. The MS-DOS version doesn't seem to work. When I ran it under DOSBox, the opening screen and first few moves looked like this:
Any ideas?
It looks like an interesting text adventure. I added it to my new video with other recently released games. I hope you like it.
Thank you for playing and presenting it!
As a kid I really liked text adventures. They looked like magical interactive books to me.
I must try this out ;)
Have fun!
They still are magical interactive books. :-)
Thank you! Pixel Prose (2025, Tarjan)
Thank you for linking! :-)