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:Good. by FatdogHaiku · 2017-06-17 05:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

When I first ran across this it was a few years old. Someone wanted me to port it to Pick Basic as a way to get me interested in programming. It was called Adventure then. Inform has their port source here:
http://inform-fiction.org/examples/index.html

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