Frank Carver's Punch Barrel » adventure http://blog.punchbarrel.com Frank Carver's musings about software and life Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:27:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2008 frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver) frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver) posts 1440 http://punchbarrel.com/images/punchbarrel-144.jpg Frank Carver's Punch Barrel » adventure http://blog.punchbarrel.com 144 144 Frank Carver spends too much time reading the web Frank Carver spends too much time reading the web Frank Carver Frank Carver frank.carver@googlemail.com no no Will Crowther’s Original Adventure in Code and in Kentucky http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/07/28/somewhere-nearby-is-colossal-cave-examining-will-crowthers-original-adventure-in-code-and-in-kentucky/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/07/28/somewhere-nearby-is-colossal-cave-examining-will-crowthers-original-adventure-in-code-and-in-kentucky/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:50:51 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=310 An unrelated discussion at work led to a mention of the original Colossal Cave text adventure (a.ka. “Crowther and Woods”, “adventure”, or even just “advent”), and no mention of that game is complete without a reference to Dennis Jerz’s legendary paper on the subject.

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther’s Original Adventure in Code and in Kentucky

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