Colossal Cave Adventure (Will Crowther, expanded by Don Woods, ~1976) — a cave system rendered entirely in prose, navigated by typed commands; the first text adventure. Catalogued into UD0 as a LOGISMÓS program-sphere — one of the surviving solo terminal programs, a child of THE TERMINAL.
The Four Natures
each facet emerges by one of four natures
The Program
born · what it does · the line
Will Crowther, a caver and programmer, wrote it; Don Woods expanded it into a fantasy quest — a world that existed only in its descriptions.
Describe a room, take a typed command (GO NORTH, TAKE LAMP), describe the next — a world you explore entirely through reading and typing.
Begat Zork and Infocom, and the whole of interactive fiction — proof that a world could live in nothing but text.
The Facets
Adventure and its facets as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (3)
