Escape rooms are still popular, gamebooks continue to pop up here and there, and role playing games are no longer the stuff of nerds (though they still are that too…) At such a time, it seems fitting to revive an old standard in the world of computer games: the Text Adventure game! Like most things people remember fondly, text adventure games arose more from necessity than anything else. They came at a time when hardware was slow and expensive, and… Read more

Recently, I’ve been revisiting an old hobby—mazes. In the past, I’ve drawn mazes by hand, and I had never written a proper maze generator before. But for some reason or other, recently I thought I’d give it a try. I briefly looked at some articles for suggestions how to go about it, and then I just sort of made up a series of algorithms to generate mazes in different ways. The end result is a series of maze sets on… Read more