Having read through the entire game session, Claude plays the game admirably! For example, it finds a random tin of oily fish somewhere, and later tries (unsuccessfully) to use it to oil a rusty lock.
Later it successfully solves a puzzle inside the house by thoroughly examining random furniture and picking up subtle clues about what to do, based on it.
It did so well that I can't not suspect that it used some hints or walkthroughs, but then again it did a bunch of clueless stuff too, like any player new to the game.
For one thing, this would be a great testing tool for the author of such a game. And more generally, the world of software testing is probably about to take some big leaps forward.
As a fan of text adventures who has played many over the years—Anchorhead is hard. It was kind of a white whale for me over many years until I finally beat it during the pandemic lockdown.
How does it compare in difficulty and scope to the original Adventure? I guess actually known as Colossal Cave Adventure? When I played it on my uncle's terminal in the 70s it was just called Adventure.
I stayed up all night and didn't get very far. I finally saw a solution online and I wasn't even close.
Yeah, it seems Nordic, Nordic languages still have an archaic native version that could be the proto-hello: 'Hil' meaning 'be greeted', surviving as 'hail' in English, or, somewhat infamously, 'heil' in German.
Polished and average is a good description. There are also no highs or lows across a track - it is very samey all the way through, where an actual creative person will build some kind of arc into a song.
It did so well that I can't not suspect that it used some hints or walkthroughs, but then again it did a bunch of clueless stuff too, like any player new to the game.
For one thing, this would be a great testing tool for the author of such a game. And more generally, the world of software testing is probably about to take some big leaps forward.
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