Original Colossal Cave Adventure Now Playable On Alexa (amazon.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 17, 2017 @04:42AM from the Alexa,-start-Colossal-Cave dept.

Last month Eric Raymond announced the open sourcing of the world's very first text adventure. Now Slashdot reader teri1337 brings news about their own special project: A few old-timers here may recall with fond memories the phrase "Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave..." Well, a voice-playable version of Colossal Cave "Adventure" is now available on Amazon Echo devices as a [free] Alexa Skill. This is a port of the original 1976 text adventure game written by Willie Crowther and Don Woods, which started the interactive fiction genre and led to later games like Infocom's Zork. This version was written from scratch as an AWS Lamda function incorporating the original 350-point game database, and made available with permission from Don Woods.

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Re:I know what Colossal Cave cave is by 110010001000 · 2017-06-17 06:24 · Score: 3, Informative

Alexa is a voice interface hooked to a database that logs personal information about you and your family and sells that information to anyone that Amazon can sell it to.
Re:XYZZY by teri1337 · 2017-06-17 09:15 · Score: 5, Informative

Don Woods informed me that he pronounces it "zizzy". As such, the skill allows both the pronunciation "zizzy" or spelling out the letters individually as "X-Y-Z-Z-Y" to work equally.