Freshman high school student Jeff Marcos, bored out of his wits, decides to sneak out at night to go to the beach with his friends, until he feels something strange emanating from behind his house. He quickly discovers a portal behind his back yard, only to be sucked in it and dropped off onto an island where nothing is what it seems. Trapped in this new dimension, Jeff goes on a journey across the isle to save towns from various evil entities, acquiring the ability to shoot water bullets, but at the same time, he wishes for something even greater: a way home. Spread out into three ZZT world files and six levels with much action to be had, "The Abnormal Dimension" is an experience you may never forget -- especially after all the nonsense that goes on. - old website teaser THE ▄ ▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄ ▄ ▄▄ ▄ ▄ █ █ █ █ █▌█ █ █ █ █ ▌▌▌█ █ █ █ █▀█ █▀▄ █▐█ █ █ █▀▄ ▌▐ █ █▀█ █ █ █ █▄▀ █ █ ▀▄▀ █ █ █ ▌ █ █ █▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ █ █ █ ▌▌▌█ █ █▌█ █ █ █ █ █▌█ █ █ █ ▌▐ █ █▀▀ █▐█ ▀▄ █ █ █ █▐█ █▄▀ ▄█▄ █ ▌ █▄▄ █ █ ▄▄▀ ▄█▄ ▀▄▀ █ █ THE ABNORMAL DIMENSION by The Green Herring Incomplete Historical Release (Part 1 Only) v1.0 last developed circa September 25, 2006 (source file timestamp); this edited version released on March 22, 2022 Around 15 years before the release of my hit ZZT game "Cyber Purge", I was developing a zany comedy game that I advertised on my old website, but never released in any form: "The Abnormal Dimension". This is an edited release of Part 1 of "The Abnormal Dimension", the only part of the game that was ever finished. The original file was created circa 2006, hence my giving its Museum release a release date from that year (specifically the timestamp of that file). However, the timestamp is from this year, because I edited this world to fix bugs in the original file and to remove badly-aged content, copyrighted characters, and references that would date it badly. The computer on which this game resided, along with Part 2 and 3, was lost forever at the end of 2019. However, a chance reunion with my oldest friend, spd12, in the year 2022 (a few days ago, in fact) led to Part 1 being recovered alongside its previous version, "Geoff's Tale: The Weird Dimension", which, unlike this version, was actually completed. Unfortunately, "Geoff's Tale" turned out to be almost entirely unreleasable apart from a couple of boards due to being the product of its author, myself, being a teenager in the year 2000, an overt otaku, and a massive AKWare fanboy, with all the ugliness that entails. Those scant few releasable boards will be included with Volume II of my ZZT magazine, "The Library of the Green Herring". On the other hand, the existing Part 1 of "The Abnormal Dimension" was suited for a release on its own with just the aforementioned rewrites and bugfixes. "Part 1: Mayorships in Peril" contains two levels to play through: Gesundheit and Zorkyst. There were to be four more levels spread out two at a time through Parts 2 and 3, but Parts 2 and 3 were not finished, were lost forever, and will never be released, meaning that the password you receive at the end of Part 1 will never be used. That said, Part 1 has enough material inside of it to be worthwhile on its own, including action sequences and even some puzzles. Enjoy! *** Credits *** -- 2006 -- EVERYTHING The Green Herring BETA-TESTING The Green Herring spd12 CREATED USING ZZT AdvancEditor v1.0.3 by CyQ -- 2022 -- RECOVERED WITH THE HELP OF spd12 EDITED BY The Green Herring BETA-TESTING PogeSoft WiL CREATED USING ZEdit2 by Lancer-X *** Secrets *** There are two secret boards in this game. Can you find them without an editor or viewer? *** Copyright *** This game is (C) 2006-2022 The Green Herring. All rights reserved.