Colossal Cave, es una versión moderna del clásico juego de aventura de texto que salió en 1976. Se trata de un juego donde debemos explorar una cueva misteriosa y resolver puzles usando comandos de texto. El juego tiene un estilo gráfico minimalista, una música ambiental y un sistema de pistas. El juego saldrá para Switch y PS4 y tendrá una edición física con un libro de arte, una banda sonora y una figura de un aventurero.

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https://youtu.be/zWRytWXN4KE?t=1548

You're at west end of road again.
A passage. You're in hall
Of mount king. You're at secret N
S canyon. Dead end crawl.

#ColossalCave #Ballad
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These objects. I don't know that word.
Its body. I don't know
That word here. You can catch the bird.
There is no way to go.

#ColossalCave #Ballad
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Another passage enters from the south.
Proceed at your own risk. Proceed at your
Feet is a large deep chasm. From the north.
An eerie green light. You are on the floor.

#ColossalCave #Verse
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A gently sloping out of sight in both
Directions. From the north. To one side is
A large deep chasm. From the north and east.
Another passage enters from the heat.

#ColossalCave #Blank
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An eerie green light.
The ceiling. There is a large
Room carved out of sight.

#ColossalCave #Haiku
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These objects. I don't know that word.
Its body. I don't know
That word here. You can catch the bird.
There is no way to go.

#ColossalCave #Ballad
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The water is now empty. Now you've made
Him really mad. It looks as though You're Dead.
Your feet are now wet. As the echoes fade
There is no way across the bridge instead
Of jumping. You are being followed by
A very large tame bear. The snake has now
Snapped shut again. Your bottle. I think I
Just lost my appetite. I don't know how
Long I can keep…

#ColossalCave #Sonnet
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You're at west end of road again.
You're at east end of hall
Of mount king. You're at secret N
S canyon. Dead end crawl.

#ColossalCave #Ballad
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It gets You. I don't know that word.
These objects. I don't know
That word here. You can catch the bird.
There is no way to go.

#ColossalCave #Ballad
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You are in a tall
E W. On the west.
Dead end Dead end crawl.

#ColossalCave #Haiku
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Aw, yeah, thank you Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/item/2006626050/

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This is a great diagram. It says "growth in length of Mammoth Cave", but that really means the growth of the *surveyed region* of the cave. The diameter of each branch shows the total surveyed passage length at that point in time.

Branches merge where a connection was made, thus merging two (surveyed) cave systems into one. The orange-blue merge is the famous expedition of 1972.

From the Cave Research Foundation newsletter, Feb 2023.

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Now, what I'm really looking for is *high-resolution* scans of the old Colossal Cave maps described in this paper:

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=mc_reserch_symp

The 1845 Stephen Bishop map is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_Bishop_1842_Map_of_Mammoth_Cave,_Kentucky_-_Hi-Res.jpg

(I realize that modern maps are super-high-density and may not be available for download! But the historic ones must be somewhere.)

#InteractiveFiction #ColossalCave #Maps

Recent IF viewing:

Roberta Williams does a history squib on Colossal Cave, the cave and the text game and their graphical game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhxVTvyxIA

...which led me to a National Park Service video on the cave system: Hidden Wonder: Mapping Mammoth Cave

https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm%3Fid%3DAEE5DD73-BABF-4F9C-947F-37EE77F2D784

Has some excellent underground footage.

The full history of the Mammoth / Colossal / Crystal / Flint Ridge cave system hookup is told in _The Longest Cave_ (Brucker and Watson).

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The path forks here. The left fork leads northeast.
A heavy smell of brimstone. You're in hall
Of mount king. You're inside a barren room.
You didn't make it. You're in cobble crawl.

#ColossalCave #Verse
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It gets You. I don't know that word.
Its body. I don't know
That word here. You can catch the bird.
There is no way to go.

#ColossalCave #Ballad
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To get full credit for a treasure chest.
Oh leave the poor thing is already Dead.
The little dwarf. Your bare hands. Now You'd best
Not try to get by. Should I go ahead
And read it. I don't know how. Don't go west.
Don't go west. Should I go ahead and read
It anyway. The ashes blow away.
Your bare hands. So let's just call it a day.

#ColossalCave #Ottava
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The ming vase here. Direct me with commands
Of or words. I will be your eyes and hands.

#ColossalCave #Couplet
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You can catch the bird
Is now Dead. The little dwarf.
I don't know that word.

#ColossalCave #Haiku
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