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