Mr.Jhorjan Posted August 7, 2023 Posted August 7, 2023 Link:https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hunt-the-Wumpus Hunt the Wumpus is a text-based adventure game developed by Gregory Yob in 1973. In the game, the player moves through a series of connected caves, arranged as the vertices of a dodecahedron, while hunting a monster called the Wumpus. Turn-based gameplay has the player try to avoid fatal bottomless pits and "super bats" that will move them around the cave system; the objective is to shoot one of his "crooked arrows" through the caves to kill the Wumpus. Yob created the game in early 1973 due to his annoyance at multiple hide-and-seek games set in caves in a grid pattern, and multiple variations of the game were sold by mail order by Yob and the People's Computer Company. The game's source code was published in Creative Computing in 1975 and republished in The Best of Creative Computing the following year. The game spawned multiple variations and expanded versions and was ported to various systems, including the TI-99/4A home computer. It has been cited as an early example of the survival horror genre, and was included in Time's 2012 list of the 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time. The Wumpus monster has appeared in various forms in media since 1973, including other video games, a novel, and Magic: The Gathering cards. Hunt the Wumpus is a text-based adventure game set in a series of caves connected by tunnels. In one of the twenty caves is a "Wumpus", which the player is attempting to kill. Additionally, two of the caves contain bottomless pits, while two others contain "super bats" which will pick up the player and move them to a random cave. The game is turn-based; Each cave is given a number by the game, and each turn begins with the player being told which cave they are in and which caves are connected to it by tunnels. The player then elects to either move to one of those connected caves or shoot one of their five "crooked arrows", named for their ability to change direction while in flight. Each cave is connected to three others, and the system as a whole is equivalent to a dodecahedron. 1
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