Wumpus 2.0 by DarkLizerd

Back in the 1970's, when people first bought computers, MS DOS came with MS-Basic, so, they also bought Basic game books so that they could type in the games to play...
Here is one of those games...
To give credit where credit is due...
Hunt the Wumpus was originally written by Gregory Yob in BASIC while attending the Dartmouth campus of the University of Massachusetts in 1972 or 1973. Out of frustration with all the grid-based hunting games he had seen, such as Snark, Mugwump, and Hurkle, Yob decided to create a map-based game. Hunt the Wumpus was first published in the People's Computer Company journal Vol. 2 No. 1 in mid-1973, and again in Creative Computing in its October, 1975, issue. This article was later reprinted in the book The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 1. Yob later developed Wumpus 2 and Wumpus 3, which offered more hazards and other cave layouts.

I have made some changes to what he created.
There are 2 pits, which are quick kills, 2 Super Bats which will transport you to some other room, maybe dropping you in a pit, or in the room with the Wumpus itself!
And, of course, the Wumpus...
To kill the Wumpus, you have 3 arrows to shoot the Wumpus, but only from the safety of an connecting room.
There are 20 rooms to explore, and each room connects to 3 other rooms.
Added for version 2.0:
A control panel so that you can select how hard of a game you want.
There are now 8 different maps to explore.
There are 3 naming conventions for the rooms.
And, if you are daring, the room names can be scrambled to add more to the mystery... (or misery)
If requested, I can expand the exits to 5 connecting rooms...
Update 2.5: Room links now have the connecting room name. (Took awhile to figure that one out!!!)
Version 3.0 will have room descriptions..
Review jmnevil54
10 Jun 2021
I had fun with the game.
It's a good game.

Comment DarkLizerd
29 May 2017
Ver 2.0 and 1.0: 1670 total, 120 downloads...

Comment DarkLizerd
14 May 2017
Have you tried option 0?

13 May 2017
So, there are no room descriptions, simplistic choices to make, no plot, no story, just.... hunt the wumpus in rooms that you have to enter to know what the rooms are. Mehhhhhh......

Comment DarkLizerd
02 Apr 2017
OK, maybe it really started in the '70's, but when did it really take off???
Nothing like we have today...

Comment Jddda12345
02 Apr 2017
actually people first started buying home computers in the 1970 not the 80

Comment DarkLizerd
31 Mar 2017
Like I said... based on the original...
However... I did a version of this using 5 exit...
and it had 35 rooms...
That would take quite a bit more to explore.

Comment Leinad Why
31 Mar 2017
you can add random generation of the room names so that it doesn't give it away to people who need try it a second time. Also, nerf the arrows to two or one because it warns you when you approach the Wampus and since there are only three exits its easy to get a hit

Comment DarkLizerd
31 Mar 2017
If you liked this.... you ain't seen ver 2.0!!!
I know because it isn't out yet... but soon...
just a few tweaks and a spell check...
V 2.0 allows the original map option, and 8 optional maps...
6 from the book and 2 of my own...
3 types of room names,
randomized room names, to add more "fun"
All randomly selected based on your entry selection...
(plus a mini-side game... surprise on that one)

Review MYCROFTJOY
25 Mar 2017
Thank you for developing such a nice game

Comment DarkLizerd
18 Mar 2017
!!! WOW!!!
Editor's pick, page 1!!!
Not bad for a second attempt!!!
and just short of 330 plays!!!
in just 2 weeks!

Comment DarkLizerd
08 Mar 2017
That's an idea...
In 2.0, I've added an intro room. I could add a control panel there to select the different options...

Comment rubereaglenest
07 Mar 2017
It would be interesting if the player could switch on or off the changes you have made over the original. So people at textadventures could play the original experience too.

Nice clone, good work!

Comment DarkLizerd
07 Mar 2017
3 maps, 2 room naming styles, and I am adding some other random details to the rooms...
Soon to release V 2.0...

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