Review of graphical Colossal Caves?

[Pebblerubble (Peter Wiehe)]

In a different thread there were Colossal Caves mentioned, “rewritten” with graphics.

@zarf

(And I, a Steam user who has played the text version, bought the graphical version immediately just to see what it was like.)

@zarf or anyone else who has played it: May I ask what it was like?

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

Zarf posted a pretty in-depth review on his blog:

Colossal Cave (2023)

[Pebblerubble (Peter Wiehe)]

Oh sorry, I’m not so deep into the scene to know that blog. But thanks to you I know it now! Great!

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

The post-mortem I mentioned from Ken Williams is here: The Making of Colossal Cave - Part 1 - Colossal Cave 3D Adventure

(It’s a blog post, not an interview – I misremembered.)

This discusses the development process and some of the reasons why he thinks it didn’t sell well. He’s optimistic at the end that it will sell better on upcoming platforms. I dunno, but it’s their game to sell.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

Game Grumps did a Let’s Play with Roberta Williams and I linked to the YouTube video:

Dan meets his childhood hero, Roberta Williams [Colossal Cave]

[Dan meets his childhood hero, Roberta Williams | Colossal Cave] [Edited to add commentary I didn’t when posting this last night] Dan from the Game Grumps is one of us who played early text and graphical adventures, so there’s a ton of interest in this video. Perhaps a bit of soul crushing “nobody wants to type into a parser anymore” attitude but Roberta Williams is an absolute delight and obviously shaped the industry based on her experience with Colossal Cave and likely every oth…