Remember when we told you about a Java-based method of playing the old Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Infocom text-adventure game?

Well it turns out there IS a Flash-powered version hosted by the BBC, complete with clickable shortcuts for common moves, illustrations of the rooms and inventory items, etc. We might have to play this game a sixth time… (and we might get past that stupid door this time…)

Edited to add: Haha, boingboing got stuck at the same door.

We’re still researching the answer to this, but if you know, please tell us: has a Z-machine interpreter actually been ported to ActionScript, and is this the basis for this version of HHGG? And if so, can we please have it? There continues to be a thriving interactive fiction community, not just playing old Infocom classics but writing new ones. Having a Flash-based engine that can accommodate the same kind of location and item illustrations would be amazing. Open-source it, and we’ll help make it even better. Please oh please…

(via Kotaku.)

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