[Adonthell-minigame] Wumpus game

[James Nash]

I just had an AI lecture and a simple game was used in one of the 
examples was the Wumpus game.

It's a really old and simple computer game from the 70s which 
originally had a command-line interface. A quick google search yields 
several web-based versions, instructions and details.

Essentially you are in a dark cave of some kind where the rooms are 
laid out in a grid, so from each room you can go N, E, S or W. One room 
contains a big monster called the Wumpus that will eat you if you enter 
that room. Fortunately the Wumpus is a smelly creature and so you can 
smell it in each of the 4 surrounding rooms. Some rooms contain pits 
too, the pits create a draft which can be felt in the surrounding 
rooms. Finally one room contains some gold.

The object is to find the goal and avoid getting killed by the pits or 
Wumpus.

In some versions you have a single arrow which you can shoot into a 
room before you enter it. If the room contained the wumpus the arrow 
will kill it, if not you wasted your arrow. Sometimes there are bats 
too - if you enter a room with bats they will pick you up and transport 
you to a random other room.


I recon it would be quite easy to build a map in Adonthell that 
emulates this game. We could have the player character say things like 
"It sure is breezy in here!" or "Phewy - what stinks??" with those 
little speech bubbles when he/she sense those things in a room. (Maybe 
also have some graphics as hints too, like green fog when it stinks!)

I think it would make a fun little mini-game. Maybe we could just stick 
it in a cave in the mountains somewhere. Instead of gold we'd just have 
some useful (but non-essential) item as a reward.

Sound good?

                -James

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