One of my two assignments for the first week of my game development class was to create a “Choose your own adventure” game. The result was GruePunk, a first-person adventure based on Zork (playable version here). I’ve been trying to figure out an elegant way of embedding the .swf in my website but I can’t seem to make it work and look right at the same time, so you’ll just have to grab the file from the Bitbucket link.

I’d literally never touched a line of ActionScript in my life until three days before starting the project. The week it took me to finish it was exhilarating, if only for the pace I put myself through. While there are many things about ActionScript that differ from C++ in a good way (function pointers in particular are a thing of beauty), there are many that I dislike, and quite a few that had me hung up for hours until I figured out what was wrong. Still, the fact that I learned an entire new language in a week is something that still makes me all kinds of happy.

What are you waiting for? Go get the source or play the game!