http://www.brittlefish.com Games of all sorts Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:05:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/ http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:26:09 +0000 bill http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/ Zork and Imagination Back when we occasionally had to use our brains to create the images within games, a.k.a. in the 1980s and earlier, a text-based adventure game called Zork was incredibly popular. Since most games back then were either played on a board or in the backyard, our imaginations regularly got a workout. Besides, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other books (stories written on piles of flat sheets called "paper" and bound together) were popular back then too, so the imagery came easily. If you were born after 1980, brace yourself; the image you see below may shock you.]]> http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/feed/ 4 http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/ http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:16:54 +0000 bill http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/ ]]> http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/feed/ 1