The idea is to write a text based game on some subject in Spectrum basic for the 48k Spectrum. This is the very definition of a pointless but captivating project. The project started from a throwaway comment on the SoftwareSaved Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SoftwareSaved/statuses/451372973308776448.
Don't know Spectrum basic? Maybe you weren't alive in the 80s? Fortunately the manual have been digitised: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/
It's pretty simple:
- If you've got an idea for what the game should be about, add it to the appropriate file
- We'll have a vote or something to see what the game should be about
- We'll crowdsource the writing of the game
- Some lucky person will enter it into the Spectrum and we'll see if it works
- That's it!