Game 3 of our 9 part mega summer special 100th episode will focus on Colossal Cave Adventure!
An inductee into the Video Game Hall of Fame, ADVENT inspired the first adventure games, text-based games, and possibly most of interactive fiction overall!
Many modern games owe its lineage to ADVENT, including 1980's Rogue as we'll discuss ⛏️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
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The Wander System is a fantastic bit of #Unix #InteractiveFiction history, as well as originating in Washington State (where I grew up). I had no idea until listening to this episode that it pre-dated #ColossalCave by a couple years, because the version we all tried to play and gave up on early came from 1978.
Also it was easy enough to just read the game files for hints, as they were all in plain ASCII. I found from reading the sources that Tim Gilberts tried to build that it was installed to obscure these files via the setuid bit, which was a feature of even the original First Edition Unix on the PDP-7!
I wonder if anyone has any source backups of a pre-78 version, and how it might have looked before the boom in text adventures.
« A huge green fierce snake bars the way ! », 1985
(uncredited artist)
Game box illustration for "Colossal Cave Adventure", by Peter Gerrard on Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, Duckworth, 1985
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #Adventure #ColossalCave #AmstradCPC #C64 #interactiveFiction #textAdventure #adventureGame
« Welcome to Adventure ! », 1979
by O'Neil (quite mysterious illustrator)
Game box and manual illustration for "Microsoft Adventure", BASIC port by Gordon Letwin on TRS-80, Microsoft, 1979
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Do you #GenX'ers remember the text adventure "Colossal Cave" by Will Crowther, a.k.a. the original "Adventure"?
You can play that too using #Microsoft #Copilot as your text adventure parser... click below!
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/ahQ9t9FLf6rsBHgWSEyfE
I ported #ColossalCave to #Gopher
Start a new session: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:70/1/gateway/mksession/random/7/gateway/games/zcode/advent.z8/
I've had an idea about why I hate the chat-based interface for LLMs so much.
It's like trying to figure out how to do something in a classic text adventure, where you're not sure which words will work, and using the wrong ones will do something bad/stupid/annoying.
Of course, with those, the results were deterministic, which is strictly *better* even if you get eaten by a Grue.
"Historically, surrealist stop motion animation engages its audience in exploring concepts dealing with perception and reality using a bizarre, dream-like aesthetic by manipulating physical objects one frame at a time."
I worked with Amber on #ColossalCave in VR and this is... very far out of my area of expertise but very very cool. #gamedev #animation #3D
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