Hi, everyone! Due to WiL recently suffering a terrible injury to his shoulder, I have been entrusted as a co-creator of ZOZ with the responsibility of updating and maintaining it. Let us pray for a swift recovery!

At any rate, ZOZ has finally been published on the Museum of ZZT, and with it comes a new version of ZOZ which adds a new feature to the start of the game, redraws three of the enemies, and fixes some minor bugs. The full changelog is below:

1. Potential speedrunners can now receive a hint in the start menu for how to skip the tutorial sequence, or even skip straight to Stonehollow Grove if they know where to look. ;)
2. It should no longer be possible for high scores to become corrupted.
3. Three enemies in the game, the Dripzz, the Arklight and the Surrvo, have had their graphics redrawn.
4. You can no longer outrun the flag for enabling the Statistics display before it is set.
5. You can no longer have the opening dialog on the start menu trigger during the transition between the menu and the Avatar Select.
6. One player avatar (the plant cat) had a miscolored tile on her arm fixed.

There are no other changes to gameplay, or to anything past the opening sequence in Stonehollow Grove, so your saved games should still work.

There are new versions of both the download and the patch available. As usual, you can unzip the contents of the patch ZIP to your ZOZ installation and run the batch file to update your copy of the game.

Enjoy!