Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction
Alright, time to get this off my chest:<p>I&#x27;ve been around this culture for a long time. I was on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, and now HN. I&#x27;ve ascended in NetHack more than 10 times (and beaten a bunch of other Roguelikes as well). I&#x27;ve heard about the Infocom games repeatedly over the years.<p>I&#x27;ve tried to play Zork several times and I just don&#x27;t get it. Every single time I end up in the maze of twisty little passages and I give up. What am I supposed to do? I tried dropping various objects as breadcrumbs and mapping the damn thing on graph paper... well, it turns out to be non-Euclidean. WTF is that? Is this tedious, bizarre exercise supposed to be fun? Will somebody help me <i>get it</i>?