MZORK_LAB // v0.9.4
A small lab for prototypes, tools, and digital products that need to exist in the world before the slide deck does. Design-led. Code-first. Allergic to generic.
MZORK LAB // SHIPPED PRODUCT
Programming Language IDE
A browser-native IDE dressed like MS-DOS — cyan editor, blue workspace, box-drawn borders. Zurd+ blends typed systems rigor, script-like flexibility, readable syntax, and expressive blocks into one language you can actually run via the built-in ZVM interpreter.
$ cat mission.txt
MZORK is not an agency waiting for a brief. We are a product lab — two builders who prototype software, ship what survives, and publish the rest as experiments worth stealing from.
We care about typography, independent tools, and interfaces that feel like they were discovered rather than committee-approved. If it needs a hundred meetings, it probably belongs somewhere else.
How we work when nobody is watching.
Rough software in days, not quarters. We sketch in code — interfaces, APIs, and flows that can be touched, argued with, and thrown away without ceremony.
Tools for odd problems. Typography playgrounds, typing machines, dashboards for signals nobody asked for yet. Most experiments stay small; a few become products.
When something survives contact with reality, we polish and release. No pitch decks required — working software is the artifact that matters.
Running builds, stable releases, and ideas still warm from the bench.
MS-DOS styled IDE for the Zurd+ language — write, run, and debug fusion-syntax code in the browser with ZVM.
A keyboard that misbehaves on purpose. Letter swaps, idle whispers, type sounds — a sandbox for how text should feel.
The humans behind the lab — designers, builders, and chronic overthinkers with blogs and Telegram channels.
Custom typefaces and glyph experiments. Letters treated as industrial objects — drawn, tested, and occasionally published.
Four commands. No ceremony.
mzork scan Notice friction in real workflows — not roadmap theater.
mzork build Ship an ugly version before the meeting about the pretty version.
mzork stress Break it on bad networks, weird screens, and impatient humans.
mzork decide Release, iterate, or archive with notes so the next experiment starts smarter.
$ where next?
No forms. No calendar links. Just software you can click.