🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:08:46 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Zork was evil that way. You'd start in a room and go East. You'd think
>that the new room you just entered would have a corresponding door to
>the West but no, often that passage would enter from the South or
>North or wherever. And some nasty passages would loop back to the same
>room, often without telling you it had done so ("A maze of twisty
>passages, all alike"). It made mapping very unintuitive. 
>
>I remember my first playthrough of an Infocom game was simply to go
>through all the rooms and try to map the connections. I'd start in a
>room, go East, then try to get back to the original room. I'd repeat
>for all possible directions in each room. It was a laborious process
>and often left the game in an unwinnable state (usually because I had
>taken to long just trying to get the lay of the land rather than solve
>the puzzles, many of which were timed) but it was a necessary step.
>After I had a map, I could then go back and try to properly play the
>game.
>
>Strangely, I sort of got into pen-n-paper role-playing that way. Even
>before I really knew what D&D was, I was playing a "let's pretend"
>game with my friends where I led them through adventures that was made
>up of "rooms" connected by twisty corridors. The maps I drew looked
>exactly like the maps I drew up for Infocom games. It was only years
>later we added dice and rules (and my maps became more realistic).
>
>BTW, if you want to see some really nice Infocom maps, check out the
>Zork Usergroup Maps at http://gue.cgwmuseum.org/ Here's a nice one; my
>maps never looked this good ;-)
>http://gue.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?pub=4&item=34&id=5&key=zork1_zug_map_2

That is really nice. Looking at the map, I can tell I saw most of the
rooms. I remember making it to the dam at random one time. 
My buddies final map was smudged up pencil from going over and erasing
again and again. He make the cave rooms odd shapes and also drew in
stalagmites and stuff. God, to have that kind of time to waste again.
lol