About
robotfindskitten is a free game originally written by Leonard Richardson for MS-DOS, in which the player, represented as "#", searches an ASCII field of random characters to find a kitten. rfk-inform is David Griffith's reimplementation of robotfindskitten in the Inform 6 interactive-fiction language, built for the Z-machine and released under the Artistic License 2.0.
How it differs from the original
Unlike the original MS-DOS C version, this is an Inform 6 / Z-machine implementation, playable through any Z-machine interpreter rather than as a native executable.
Getting started
Build with make, which runs a Perl script to convert the game's non-kitten-item message files into Inform6 source before compiling it with Inform6; control the robot using the cursor keys, numeric keypad, or vi/rogue-style movement keys, and press Esc or Q to quit early.
History
This Inform port has been maintained by David Griffith since 2002, with the current release (8) dated 2022.
Additional notes
- Trivia
- Most of the compiled code consists of the many non-kitten-item (NKI) message strings; a minimal build with just five messages compiles to under 10KB.