The guy, Will Crowther, who made that game, he was a cave enthusiast, and his wife at the time made some important discoveries in the caves. We were driving past Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, which is where Colossal Cave Adventure is set.

Tamas and I were coming down to Kentucky a lot. a game that established a lot of vocabulary of a lot of games that we play now. People talk about as the first text adventure. The three of us built an installation piece that was sort of a remix of this old adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure from the mid-'70s. Jake Elliott: Tamas and I worked on a project with a friend of ours John Cates, who's a video art history guy, and an artist. What inspired this game in the first place? all of that kind of dilated it out into this big sprawling project that ended up taking basically nine years from conception to completion. We had to kind of like relax that pace for ourselves and and give ourselves more time to kind of develop each piece at a pace that was sustainable. We really trying to hit these really short turnarounds then, like three to five months or something. Did you expect the game development to span this long a period of time, and did it change the way you thought about the story?Įlliott: We learned early on that we had a kind of pretty intense experience.

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