Comments on: Twisty little passages - mazes re-solved http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/03/twisty-little-passages-mazes-re-solved/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Alan http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/03/twisty-little-passages-mazes-re-solved/#comment-394949 Alan Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:15:18 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/03/twisty-little-passages-mazes-re-solved/#comment-394949 i left out the 'maze' in the Hitchhikers Guide game cos that's such an exceptional game. in that it's from the old skool and breaks a lot of conventions, including both the maze solution, and making the 'standard solution' (for other games at the time) actually hazardous. at one point you find yourself inside a brain - it becomes obvious it is your OWN! as you travel from identical synapse to identical synapse, the standard way to map out the maze, to mark each synapse individually is to drop items at each point... this doesn't work, and if you DO drop anything you later on die from brain badness. your wanderings eventually bring you to a black particle. it is the last particle of common sense that you possess. You remove it from your brain and go OUT OF YOUR MIND. DO YOU SEE i left out the ‘maze’ in the Hitchhikers Guide game cos that’s such an exceptional game. in that it’s from the old skool and breaks a lot of conventions, including both the maze solution, and making the ’standard solution’ (for other games at the time) actually hazardous.

at one point you find yourself inside a brain - it becomes obvious it is your OWN! as you travel from identical synapse to identical synapse, the standard way to map out the maze, to mark each synapse individually is to drop items at each point…

this doesn’t work, and if you DO drop anything you later on die from brain badness.

your wanderings eventually bring you to a black particle. it is the last particle of common sense that you possess. You remove it from your brain and go OUT OF YOUR MIND.

DO

YOU

SEE

]]> By: Marna http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/03/twisty-little-passages-mazes-re-solved/#comment-394935 Marna Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:16:57 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/03/twisty-little-passages-mazes-re-solved/#comment-394935 > exit maze You are standing outside the maze [....] > (that's a v old skool solution) > exit maze

You are standing outside the maze [....]

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(that’s a v old skool solution)

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