adventure

Going on a treasure hunt, love marks the spot.

As I was playing Passage, a game in which the player begins the game as a young male at the beginning of life's long journey, I went through life in about five minutes. I first ran into my love interest (wife?), and went through life's journey with her until we both passed on.

The game's screen is all black except for one strip in the middle of the screen. This strip is made up of various colors that make up the somewhat blocky world of the player. Your character is facing right towards another character (your possible love interest).

At first, I did not realize that instead of going just right and left, I could also go up and down. Doing this revealed what could be interpreted as a maze of some sort. Through the "maze of life" I found my self growing older and older, as well as my wife. Eventually, she died and in the place where she had stood was a grave and tombstone with a cross. Once I reached the end of my life, I also had a nice grave, tombstone and all. I died a happy man I think because on the journey through my maze of life I found treasures and little surprises that were hidden away.  read more »

First Time for Anything

Well, as I'm sure anyone reading this could tell, I've fallen a bit behind with my blog entries. As such, I found it high time to go ahead and get on these while I still can. So! On with the blog entry, I guess.

My name's Cameron. I'm a Freshman. I'm currently 19 years old, and have been playing video games for quite some time. I don't have fond memories of "My First Text-Based", or anything of that sort, but I do remember the days of inputting MS DOS codes in order to run classing games like Wolfenstein 3D. In all honesty, my excursions into the text-based world within the confines of our Electronic Literature classroom have been my first, but it's better late than never for anything! I've found these text-based adventures to be highly enjoyable, and possess a certain charm to them that seem to be lacking in today's world of "Generic Brown Space Marine Shooter NBA Jam 2009". But that's just me.  read more »

gamer's medley

It's been a relatively long time since I last blogged. I didn't put very much effort into playing ELIZA/DOCTOR because, in retrospect, what I typed was just accepted; I wasn't given much feedback at all. I didn't spend much time playing Space War either (which, incidentally just reminded me of a similar game, based off the game Asteroids, callled 3D Astro Blaster)because it got boring playing by myself after a while.  read more »