In what has to be a moment of genius, the folks over at Joystiq managed to capture some unique interviews with some of the developers who have built adventure games. The sad thing is that they only did this bit with three folks: Mike Stemmle, Steve Purcell, and Ron Gilbert. But the positive end was that they chose some really great folks to ask this archetypical adventure game question. I am reiterating the question here since I am interested to see what sort of answers we would get, but it is one I would like to see asked of more developers. Now onto the puzzle:
You're standing in front of a cave. The goal is to get inside the cave, taking care to foil the ferocious robot bear guarding the entrance first.
You have in your inventory:
What do you do?
Posted by Tim at Wednesday February 27, 2008 - 5:14 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: | © 2008 Gaming Signal
Tie the miniature macaroni Tim Schafer statue to the string of the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. Put the sealed manila envelope under my arm like a folded newspaper and open the perforated parasol and begin walking towards the cave and the robot bear while strutting like a goose and singing "Green Sleeves". When you get to the robot bear hold up the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle and swing the miniature macaroni Tim Schafer statue in a pendulum like manner while saying "the almighty Tim Schafer wants you to calculate the square root of pi" over and over. Being that the answer to "the square root of pi" is an infinite decimal point the bear will begin smoking at the ears and shut down completely allowing me to enter the cave and open the sealed manila envelope to reveal that in fact the bear was a ruse and that I am standing on a trap door....
Posted by tditto on Monday March 03, 2008 at 9:58 AM