Zork I Tribute

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Zork I Tribute  • Classified

A classic text adventure, rendered in the world around you, built for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

Client since 2012

The Platform

Ray-Ban Display glasses embed a transparent display directly in the lens, projecting information into your line of sight without blocking what's in front of you. Think of it as a heads-up display you wear all day. Paired with the Meta Neural Band worn on the wrist, they respond to simple hand gestures — no touchscreen, no voice commands, no reaching for anything. It's a computer you wear, not one you carry.

Meta Ray-Ban Display — glasses with a screen built into the lens

Zork I Tribute Is Built For

Retro gaming fans and text adventure enthusiasts

Anyone who grew up navigating the Great Underground Empire by typing commands into a terminal. And anyone who never did but appreciates the idea of a game where the entire world is built from words.

Solution

A text adventure that floats in the actual world

Text adventures always asked you to imagine the world around the words. Zork I Tribute closes that gap. The text lives in your environment, not on a screen in front of it. The game is finally rendered in the format it was always meant for.

The full game, gesture-controlled, with sound

How Zork I Tribute Works

The complete Zork I experience runs on the display, one passage at a time. Navigate using Meta Neural Band gestures to select your commands. Original stylized typography keeps the classic feel intact while fitting the constraints of the lens. A custom sound design layer runs underneath, making the Great Underground Empire feel less like text on a screen and more like a place you are actually standing in.

About L+R Baseplates

An open-source starting point from our team

This is a Baseplate application — one of dozens of open-source foundations built by L+R as part of our alpha partnership with Meta on the Ray-Ban Display platform. Baseplates aren't always finished products. They're minimal, readable, and forkable. Built to show what's possible and give developers a working foundation to learn from and build on.

See it in action

Play with Zork I Tribute live →

Check the source code

View Zork I Tribute on GitHub →