HEheironimus·Sep 19, 2026Submission
A first-person 3D adaptation of Zork I by Ethan Mollick
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zork-underground-empire
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zork-underground-empire
A first-person 3D adaptation of Zork I. Explore the Great Underground Empire in your browser.
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| Sep 6 | 2026-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 7 | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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3 sourcesThe scale of this is impressive. I think if you showed me a single puzzle / dungeon though it's something we've seen on par from previous models.
First impressions of the code quality also feel like it needs some serious refactoring, but then again I'm not a game dev:
https://github.com/emollick/zork-underground-empire/blob/cod...
https://github.com/emollick/zork-underground-empire/blob/cod...
Overall impression though yeah it's crazy AI can do this.
In Recreating Minecraft Is Not a BenchmarkI was impressed by this 3D version of Zork.
Video: https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3muqcwa4j...
Demo: https://zork-underground-empire.netlify.app
Code: https://github.com/emollick/zork-underground-empire
Prompts in a screenshot here: https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3muqdyefc... - I extracted them as text here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/dab1843ef17edeaeffd18b0acbba2...
In Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark