Renga in Blue   Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project

I didn’t find anything looking through a couple images vertically, as suggested in one of the comments last time. However,…

this vague observation is likely rather unuseful, but anyone into both I Ching and programming at this time must have…

Mark Capella showed up in a CASA thread circa 2024 where some guy was going on about how he has…

I have one author contact but they did not respond to my query. (I just was going to ask about…

Is there any potential resolution to this short of finding the respective treasures? Are the author/adjudicators/whomever still alive and contactable?

To address your question on the specific author familiarity with the I Ching, sorry, no idea. There enough pop books…

Since you saw the original game – was it “traditional” in that it had text in text-mode form that was…

Quest now converted to a Visual Basic6 32bit executable for Windows (10/11) Hi all, I am the person who found…

feel free to take a shot I haven’t seen anything when looking one point to add is the code is…

In the one screen of text you did show, the letters line up in a grid (as one might expect),…

“I watered the spot to encourage the grass to grow again.” Memorably, Bamber’s own “Quest for the Golden Hare” goes…

“Up north / Lines meet” immediately makes me think of Promontory, Utah and the railroad. Probably meaningless, but that fallen…

In at 7, out at 4, forward 8 and slightly more: https://www.wilsoncastle.com/ Not sure how the 8 fits into this,…

lol I commented on the wrong post. I was trying to think of landmarks that would match the riddle, and…

Fun fact but probably useless: the Big Sioux River flows through Trent, SD

I also noted the very regular and symmetric I Ching symbols as especially standing out in the otherwise more chaotic…

There are a few signs on Google search results that Yolsva could be the name of a place in (former?)…

I am not assuming but I also have not found anything worth sharing. (Other than “looked redly” being curious.)

You seem to be assuming that (just like in Masquerade) the solution must be contained solely in the pictures and…

Nice one!

The word “rerouting” has “out” at position 4, “in” at 7 and means “forward” (as in to forward mail) and…

Yet another one on the last page, a little right from the last two letters of DRESSED on the left…

Honestly not a bad guess! (Btw, update not until Sunday, busy plus I wanted to give time for more discussion…

It could be a reference to Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico. But it probably isn’t.

it’s different on the packaging and in the game in game it is always Yolvsa and I should check through…

My keen, penetrating observations: The blue thing is Cookie Monster, the green thing is Audrey Jr. from Little Shop of…

I’ll quote myself here from the research I did on these last summer (large sections about Citadel removed): “Now we…

Is PRISM “playable” anywhere online? I think I see an .iso image on the Internet Archive (PrismAStorydiskCPMInternationalSoftwareMarketing1982), but I’m lazy.…

oh nice! that looks like a building in context but it clearly is matching this is the first thing that…

You talking about the upside down U looking thing, which is just right of the E on the monsters everywhere…

three of the pages I’m fairly sure have I Ching symbols last page (Gen – Mountain) fallen tree (Li -…

YOLSVA is a proper name – it’s the name of the dark world (“the forces of Yolsva”) still might have…

I took the liberty of writing down what each kind of colored letters were. (Using Aula’s ordering system, I was…

Four keys on the last page, after being specific about three the whole time, is just maddening, but I guess…

HGR (Apple II) color numbering is its own special nightmare, so hopefully the puzzle wasn’t relying on the solver knowing…

FAKE is pretty interesting in there! Could GCK be arranged as an abbreviation maybe?

I think Rob may have some info – I know he keeps an eye on the comments here – Rob,…

Another interesting 8-letter state name is COLORado (especially since the anagram on that page is HUES). But it would probably…

I think I _may_ have tested this particular interpreter back 6 years when I wrote this and had some issues,…

that one’s on me (sort of, the game’s “m” looks like a “n”, it was really a pain in the…

“Where the warn golden sun had beamed, only a white blaze appeared.” WARN is not a typo, sic?

Also, “TWO OF ONE” comes before “ONE OF TWO” because the only always-sensible reading order is left/top/right/bottom. This makes the…

“What does ONE OF TWO / TWO OF ONE / COLORS RED / WHITE AND BLUE refer to specifically?” Ohio.…

Just as an FYI, your adaptation also works perfectly in PC-BASIC, a modern cross-platform interpreter supporting some classic home computer…

“first verse” Of course it could be a city or town rather than a state.

I simply do not know enough of US states to be much help. However given that the firse verse is…

33 letters? 3 keys, is that enough to spell city/state abbreviations?

Based on the 83 article (where he talked with the ISM folks) we know explicitly all three keys are in…

I’m guessing we’re dismissing all the words that could be taken for up, down, forward and out as obvious red…

one quick side comment – given the PORTAL anagram – since P and O are on the same side, and…

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I’ll past images of everything when I’m done in case anyone wants to expect for exact spacing in the text,…

I don’t know if it’s relevant but this sort of thing invites paranoia: The first letters of the first five…

Is it possible the vanishing part of the GCKFKEA page indicates that some letters aren’t to be used? If so, you…

Actual golden keys. Take that, Return to Monkey Island! (although the fact that the in-game ones are fake is actually…

Internet Anagram Server pleads ignorance of anything that could be made out of GCKFKEA.

that’s gotta be it given the content of the page that makes the GCKFKEA even more mystifying because most of…

Maybe PORTAL?

not really getting into this until tomorrow, but the next images has HUES, and the one after isn’t even mixed…

answering my own question: checked one of the later pages that has uppercase “V”, that’s definitely Uanna not Vanna

quick question: would you say the “Uanna” is actually “Vanna”? The review I linked claims so.

PRISM CLEAR seems reasonable for the first two screens, but there don’t seem to be enough vowels to make anagrammatic…

file this under “things I thought of immediately _after_ posting that”

hah! I would imagine the first one is PRISM, right? are they all just anagrams? Maybe the picture you make…

PRIMSCARE (no idea if this is anything I just imagine a downton abbey lady jumping out at me)

I guess that’s the most likely situation, since I do read comments regularly. It just seems very unlike me to…

one major point to make if it isn’t clear already, this is a company whose major product at the time…

Did you maybe find my type-in in the comments and play it?

Yeah, the fact the hints essentially called the puzzle itself a bad puzzle because of cultural reasons embedded it a…

The blog’s shallow thread depth is preventing me from replying in the right place, but whoever wrote the Invisiclues for…

I’ve always wondered about that, but enough people got deeply upset I took them at their word. I still think…

As a Zork-playing Brit, I’m never quite sure where the train of thought regarding this puzzle not being ‘portable’ comes…

I’m worried (not really) that I have some kind of tumor that is causing an illusory sense of deja vu,…

it’s totally plausible this was just ripped off some previous game, but I’ve done every search term I can think…

Absolutely losing my mind here! I distinctly remember playing along with something like this, where we were going over the…

oof, yes, thank you

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I typed (or rather, OCR’d and corrected) this one so unless someone else did and nobody found it, that’s unlikely.

This game compares entire words, so if you want to drink the water, you have to type “DRINK WATER” exactly…

Different blogger maybe? I did some searches and no hits and I don’t remember anything like this

Haven’t we seen this exact game before? I distinctly remember levitating with a staff over a useless pit, throw a…

I did not see that with the leaf IT LEVITATES OUT OF YOUR REACH at least the leaf _seems_ magical…

I don’t know if you read replies to old posts, so I’ll keep this fairly brief. To answer your question,…

How many letters does the parser count, again? Because “Wizard Cluton” can anagram into some of the letters of “Drink…

That might well be another OCR oversight, but the game in general is very clumsily programmed, as you probably noticed.

It’s a good comparison I’m fishing with a hope someone knows a reference in the comments Very comparable would be…

Isn’t that how British players reacted to the Zork 2 diamond maze? Clues made no sense, solution made no sense,…

“the end result being that THROW PIE still somehow throws it at the ghost, even when you are nowhere nearby”…

I think you can do without puzzles, even in a spy detective story, if you build everything on intrigue and…

oh, that’s a beautiful bug? WYOU ARE IN THE MEADOW.VISIBLE ITEMS:NOTHING? DROP LEAFO.K.YOU ARE IN THE MEADOW.VISIBLE ITEMS:LEAF? EYOU ARE…

Nothing is clear, but it is very interesting!))

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Thanks, I’ll fix that along with another tiny typo I found.

“if you drop any item you can’t pick it up” You absolutely can, if you happen to be in the…

figured it out from the second hint that leaves “moon logic” into some kind of hyperdimensional space

ugh, I even had fixed one and it somehow unfixed itself should all be good now, thanks

There’s something you need to do in one of the locations you’ve visited but I honestly have no idea how…

They did have one gaming landmark worth noting, possibly a side effect of their “serious” positioning: they have the first…