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.
No parser libraries. No modern frameworks.
Just memory, moss, and myth, woven into 40 columns.

Solve puzzles. Eat ghosts. Free the Architect.



Updated 6 days ago
StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorTarjan
GenreAdventure, Interactive Fiction
TagsAmstrad CPC, c-64, Commodore 64, cpc, Fantasy, Mystery, poetry, text-adventure, Text based

Download

Download
Pixel Prose.d64 - Disk image for Vice C64 emulator 170 kB
Download
Pixel Prose.vsf - Snapshot for Vice C64 emulator 188 kB
Download
PixelProse Walkthrough.txt 276 bytes
Download
Pixel Prose.dsk - Disc image for CPC emulators. Start with RUN "PIXEL" 190 kB

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

Comments

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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! :-)