[Dailydave] You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike

[Richard Thieme]

this is a fabulous post,. thanks Dave.

I understand that the authors of Leather Goddesses of Phobos also drew 
on their own experiences while working at Sandoz as CIA contract 
employees in the early days of computing ...

Dave Aitel wrote:
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> Geek culture has its own literature. Adventure, the text game, is one of 
> these canons, as is Zork and all the Infocomm games [1]. For a lot of 
> us, Adventure was the first game we ever played. It turns out that 
> someone went and did a big documentary on them, and then gave a talk 
> about it at Shmoocon. He found out that the Adventure game was written 
> by a caver, and based on a real cave in Kentucky. And then he took a 
> video camera and shot some footage down in the original cave, where the 
> birdcage room is, near the twisty little passages, all alike.
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> During his talk, he shows you some of the stills of the cave, and as he 
> goes through them, if you've played enough Adventure, your brain can 
> reconstruct the geography. From just the experience of playing a text 
> game, you feel like you know your way around the cave as he goes through 
> the photos. It's uncanny. You've never been there, or even seen 
> drawings, but your brain tells you that you recognize the places. Yes, 
> here's the hall of the mountain king, here's the birdcage room, here's 
> the stream you go down to find the cave where the lamp sits. Anyways, he 
> has his site up at takelamp.com. It's worth a look-see. Sometimes the 
> talks you go to in a conference that are not technical are the ones you 
> remember.
>
> -dave
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