This year allegedly marks the 35th anniversary of the original Colossal Cave Adventure - the first text adventure/interactive fiction and progenitor of the adventure game genre.
So, the challenge this week is to make a pixel art interpretation of the game's opening lines:
YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
This is a great opportunity for people to show off their 20 col. palettes.
Having to use your own imagination to picture a scene is one of the reasons I still occasionally play text adventures.
I'll try my hand at isometric stuff this time. Never been good at it, so this is a good time to get some practice :)
I recently read about this when I had come across an article on building hacking and urban exploration. The part about vadding is interesting.
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I'd like to perform my interpretation from inside Carl Sagan's brain. The dawning of the Milky Way.