pi-dunnet

The classic Emacs Dunnet text adventure inside of pi.

What is Dunnet?

Dunnet is a text adventure game originally written by Ron Schnell in 1982 and shipped as a built-in game in Emacs. Explore a dungeon, collect treasures, solve puzzles, and try to achieve the rank of Grandmaster. This is a port of dunnet.el in TypeScript for pi.

Install

pi install npm:pi-dunnet

Or manually:

npm install pi-dunnet

Play

In pi, type:

/dunnet

Opens a TUI game panel where you can play interactively.

Controls

Key	Action
Enter	Send command
Esc	Close game panel
PgUp / PgDn	Scroll output
Backspace	Delete character

Commands

look          — describe current room
go north      — move in a direction (n/s/e/w/ne/nw/se/sw/up/down/in/out)
inventory     — list what you're carrying
take <item>   — pick something up
drop <item>   — put something down
examine       — look at something closely
eat <item>    — eat something
read <item>   — read something
dig           — dig in the current room (if you have a shovel)
save          — save your progress
restore       — restore a saved game
quit          — quit (and start a new session)
help          — list available commands
score         — check your current score

License

GPL-3.0.