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I enjoyed that. I felt compelled to explore EVERY single cell. Funny how that works. Wether wumpus or not, an exploring game is always compelling.

You know, I can see this *very* easily turning into a port of the 'Advanced D&D: Cloudy Mountain' game... That was my favorite game on the Intellivision, and I've always wanted to see if the 2600 could pull that off...

 

djmips, I've got the same problem when I'm play testing. I keep wanting to explore all the caverns. You'll be happy to know that as an employee of the Frobozz Dungeon Delving Corporation, you will be compensated for cavernous cartography (i.e., you'll get extra points for every cavern explored.)

 

PacManPlus, did you see my first blog post about this game? I mentioned that Intellivision game. It wouldn't be too hard to do, as long as there isn't any horizontal scrolling. For the main screen, the mountains and forest could be done in background graphics (left side of screen gray, right side green), and the rivers could be drawn with a wide missile and a series of shifting HMOVEs. I'll add that as a possible game in the future.

 

The original Intellivision AD&D game probably started as an attempt to port Hunt the Wumpus. This is evident in the "clues" that you see in the caverns adjacent to the dragons and zombies, and the fact that shooting at creatures in unexplored caverns is necessary to survive on the hardest level. I've always considered that AD&D game to be the grandfather of dungeon crawl games like Diablo. And that would make Hunt the Wumpus the great grandfather.

Very nice.