caving

Observations about Crowther’s original Adventure (1975) « Renga in Blue

A long held-belief about Crowther’s Adventure was that it was designed as a “cave simulation” and it was Woods who…

13 years ago

Choose Your Own Adventure books: How The Cave of Time taught us to love interactive entertainment. – By Grady Hendrix – Slate Magazine

The next time I introduce interactive storytelling, I might use this very accessible overview. But all of these efforts were…

13 years ago

Critical Code Studies Working Group — Colossal Cave Adventure Annotation

This week, I'll be facilitating a week-long collaborative annotation project, as part of the Critical Code Studies Working Group online…

14 years ago

Peter West, Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839-1869

Interesting examination of role-playing, illusion, identity, and power in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, one small branch of which was the inspiration…

14 years ago

Colossal Cave Adventure, an Exhibit

Fascinating student project from Zach Whalen's "A Videogame Canon" course. Adventure. Rules, Representation, and Meaning in Colossal Cave AdventureAnalysis of…

14 years ago

Somewhere Nearby is a Colossal Cave Paper

Okay, I admit it, being known as the academic expert on a singe indie computer game from the 1970s is…

15 years ago

New Media Journalism Professor Uncovers Source Code — And Source Cave — of Forerunner to Modern Computer Adventure Games

Here's an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of the Seton Hill University alumni magazine,…

15 years ago

A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRING

I was digging through my archives and came across this e-mail from caver and author Roger Brucker, responding to my…

15 years ago

File:ADVENT — Will Crowther's original version.png – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gaah! Is there anyone out there who's experienced with Wikipedia templates, who can help me resolve this mess? I uploaded…

15 years ago

Colossal Cave Adventure Lives Again at UMD

Mike Musgrove, Post I.T. (Washington Post)One computer historian joked that the game's release "set the entire computer industry back two…

16 years ago

Colossal Cave Adventure — History

Couldn't sleep. Thought I'd do some more work on the Wikipedia entry for Colossal Cave Adventure.

17 years ago

Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther’s Original ”Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky

Because so little primary historical work has been done on the classic text computer game "Colossal Cave Adventure", academic and…

17 years ago

Adventure/Colossal Cave Home Page

I designed this site to enable those of us who are having difficulty in solving Adventure / Colossal Cave to…

17 years ago

Possible New Mars Caves Targets in Search for Life

The potential caves were spotted near a massive Martian volcano, Arisa Mons. Their openings range from about 330 to 820…

17 years ago

Mammoth Cave Restoration Field Camp [1994]

Friday the entire Field Camp crew went to the Bedquilt Entrance to remove the debris from that project. This consisted…

17 years ago

Man to live three years in cave

"When I remained 366 days underground, I had the impression of only spending 219 days," he said. --Man to live…

18 years ago

Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun

According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age…

18 years ago

The Beast in the Cave

The horrible conclusion which had been gradually intruding itself upon my confused and reluctant mind was now an awful certainty.…

19 years ago

Man found after weeks in cave

A man who went missing five weeks ago in south-western France has been found alive in an underground cave system…

19 years ago