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Instructions

Lantern Deep

The first cave adventure, word for word. A road, a brick building, a grate in the gully, and below it a cave full of treasure, dwarves and a pirate. Type or tap your way in.

Revived Revived from Colossal Cave Adventure (Open Adventure 1.22) by Will Crowther and Don Woods; Open Adventure by Eric S. Raymond, BSD 2-Clause. Source: gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure (commit e6160529e70a). Credits

Year
1977
Era
Vector
Genre
Text adventure
Play Lantern Deep

Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.

Revived Credits

Revived from Colossal Cave Adventure (Open Adventure 1.22) by Will Crowther and Don Woods; Open Adventure by Eric S. Raymond, BSD 2-Clause. Source: gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure (commit e6160529e70a).

Based on Open Adventure by Eric S. Raymond. Original game (C) 1977, 2005 Will Crowther and Don Woods. Open Adventure is distributed under the BSD 2-Clause licence.

This is not an Eracade original. It keeps its own licence, and the credit belongs to the people who made it. We adapted it to run on Eracade.

Original licence · Every revived game

How to play

  • Type one- or two-word commands and press Enter (N, TAKE LAMP, XYZZY).
  • Esc pauses.

On touch

  • Tap the word chips to build a command, or type with the keyboard.
  • Map, Save and Restore sit at the top.

Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.

Workshop note

Will Crowther wrote this cave in 1976 and Don Woods grew it in 1977; this is their 430-point version, from Eric S. Raymond's Open Adventure, ported to JavaScript line by line and checked against its whole test suite. The text and puzzles are untouched. The dwarves and the pirate roll their dice from the run seed, so a ranked run can be replayed command by command. Ranked runs last ten minutes and score the game's own points.

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Target scores

  1. 134
  2. 240
  3. 350
  4. 460
  5. 572
  6. 685
  7. 7100
  8. 8120

Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.

The Vector era, 1977–1982

Glowing phosphor lines on black glass: wireframes, starfields and one bright dot doing something impossible.

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High scores

The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.

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