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Re: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
From: Richard Thieme <rthieme () thiemeworks com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:24:12 -0600
this is a fabulous post,. thanks Dave. I understand that the authors of Leather Goddesses of Phobos also drew on their own experiences while working at Sandoz as CIA contract employees in the early days of computing ... Dave Aitel wrote:
* PGP Signed by an unknown key Geek culture has its own literature. Adventure, the text game, is one of these canons, as is Zork and all the Infocomm games [1]. For a lot of us, Adventure was the first game we ever played. It turns out that someone went and did a big documentary on them, and then gave a talk about it at Shmoocon. He found out that the Adventure game was written by a caver, and based on a real cave in Kentucky. And then he took a video camera and shot some footage down in the original cave, where the birdcage room is, near the twisty little passages, all alike. During his talk, he shows you some of the stills of the cave, and as he goes through them, if you've played enough Adventure, your brain can reconstruct the geography. From just the experience of playing a text game, you feel like you know your way around the cave as he goes through the photos. It's uncanny. You've never been there, or even seen drawings, but your brain tells you that you recognize the places. Yes, here's the hall of the mountain king, here's the birdcage room, here's the stream you go down to find the cave where the lamp sits. Anyways, he has his site up at takelamp.com. It's worth a look-see. Sometimes the talks you go to in a conference that are not technical are the ones you remember. -dave [1] http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/ * Unknown Key * 0xBD2085EA(L) _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave .
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