Colossal Adventure Undermines
Colossal also Undermines Adventure , known under the name of Advent and of Colossal Undermines , is the first textual Jeu of adventure on microcomputer, created starting from 1972 by Willie Crowther, at the time programmer at Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN).
The play will leave on all the home computers, while starting with APPLE II and TRS-80 in 1980.
Principle of play
Impassioned speleology and of roleplay paper, Willie Crowther will invent an intrigue occurring in an immense system from underground caves, with fantastic trolls and other creatures. He wanted that his play is ordered in the most natural possible way, i.e. by writing whole words, which are automatically analyzed by an interpreter of order.
Colossal Undermines Adventure is thus a purely textual play. One visits a network of caves there in order to recover hidden treasures there. Its operation is simple: a small paragraph describes the place where one is, and one types instructions with the keyboard to solve various enigmas. This principle of operation will be worth with the kind which it will generate to be called “interactive fiction”.
The concept of enigmas is one of the largest black spots of Adventure , certain enigmas being so difficult that it is impossible to finish them without passing by the computer codes. The scenario is also full with inconsistencies, certain passage as that of the two labyrinths are so difficult to finish that very few players passed by this place. Certain descriptions are not very precise, which thus poses many problems of comprehension of the enigmas.
Various versions
The first version of the play takes only the instructions with 2 words ( take bottle, go west, phon home , etc) but a few years later, certain versions will improve this figure by taking instructions such as “ open door with small key ”…
In 1976, Gift Woods, student of Stanford, propose in Crowther to bring some innovations to the play. It started with the débuguer then added a system to him of score, new rooms, creatures and treasures.
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