Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > True.  Sometimes people get lost on the ambition to write a sort of
> > interactive novel and forget about gameplay.
>
> Interestingly, the reason I posted that is I finally came up with an idea
> for a piece of interactive fiction to write.

Great, man!  Let us know when it's ready! :)

> > Writing is about as good as you can get too, the guy is not just a
> > programmer and mathematician, but a poet as well.
>
> I actually got teary-eyed the first time I finished Advent550. :-)
> And I still have the original FORTRAN source code listing on a shelf.

Complete classic.  Pure cave crawl plus some puzzles...  no, never had the guts
to play it more than for historical curiosity.  It's still far more bearable
though than, say, King's Quest 1 with its primitive graphics.

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