uninvited is an open-source engine reimplementation of Uninvited. A new engine written from scratch that loads the original game's data files. The original game ran on Other.

Do I need the original game files to run uninvited?

According to the project's README, no original game files are required.

How is uninvited licensed?

project: Artistic License 2.0 (reimplementation of Uninvited). The repository itself is the authoritative source.

Will hints and walkthroughs for other versions work?

They may work, but they are untested.

uninvited

Engine reimplementationHaltedPlayableLinuxOSX

A new engine written from scratch that loads the original game's data files.

Based on Uninvited

Image of the original game, Uninvited. This project has no screenshots of its own yet.

Uninvited (original game, not this project) — Image of the original game, Uninvited. This project has no screenshots of its own yet.

Links, repository & details

About

Uninvited is a 1986 point-and-click adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and published by Mindscape for the Macintosh as part of the MacVenture series, later ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 and NES. This is an unauthorized, from-scratch reimplementation of Uninvited written in Inform for interactive-fiction (Z-machine) interpreters, playable on Linux and macOS. The author used no original source code or decompilation — the game was built from repeated play of the Macintosh version — and it compiles with Inform 6.33.

How it differs from the original

Room descriptions were expanded or rewritten to compensate for the lack of graphics, some room exits were rearranged to make navigation easier to describe in text, and a few doors that added nothing to the story were removed; no Invisiclues-style hint system is included.

Getting started

It's built with the Inform compiler and played through any Z-machine interpreter; a build script is included for Unix-like systems (Linux, BSD, macOS) that compiles the game and can also assemble an audio-filled blorb resource file.

History

Development ran from March 2007 to July 2012, starting on an Ubuntu Linux desktop and finishing on a Debian-based ThinkPad laptop.

What you need to run it

No original game files required, according to the project's README.

You need a Z-machine interpreter to play the game.

Features

Room descriptions were expanded or rewritten to make up for the lack of graphics.

Summarised from the project's README.

Licensing & legal

The project switched to the Artistic License 2.0 starting with its third public release (serial 190919).

FAQ

What is uninvited?: uninvited is an open-source engine reimplementation of Uninvited. A new engine written from scratch that loads the original game's data files. The original game ran on Other.
Do I need the original game files to run uninvited?: According to the project's README, no original game files are required.
How is uninvited licensed?: project: Artistic License 2.0 (reimplementation of Uninvited). The repository itself is the authoritative source.
Will hints and walkthroughs for the Macintosh version work?: For the most part, yes.
Will hints and walkthroughs for other versions work?: They may work, but they are untested.