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Hunt the Wumpus

scarybug

on Aug. 21, 2006

I first heard about Hunt the Wumpus in Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. (The textbook being the only exciting and interesting thing about my devastatingly dissapointing "Intro to AI" class back in college). The Wumpus game described in that book uses a NxM cartesian grid. When I actually looked into the origins of the game, I found that it was played on a squashed dodecahedron because the creator found grid-based games boring. I am trying to think about how I could tell a less interesting story. I wrote a pretty fun wumpus game on my TI-81 in college. I also wrote a perfect recreation of Langton's Ant. I am sad that these programs got erased before I had a chance to transcribe them somewhere.