Adventure, or Colossal Cave Adventure, was written between 1975 and 1977 in Fortran. Brandon Rhodes ported it to Python 3, initial release in 2011, and still maintains it. We talk to Brandon about this wonderful game.

What's happening is that I'm playing adventure, which you can pip install thanks to Brandon Rohdes. Adventure is a faithful port to Python 3 from the original 1977 FORTRAN code by Crowther and Woods that lets you explore Colossal Cave, where others have found fortunes in treasure and gold, ...

In this episode, we talk with Brandon Rhodes about this marvelous game.

Links:

• adventure · PyPI
• python-adventure: Original Colossal Caves adventure game, but in Python 3
• Brandon Rhodes Personal Site
• Python Design Patterns
• pyephem: Scientific-grade astronomy routines for Python
• python-skyfield: Elegant astronomy for Python
• Adventure in Python 3 - announcement blog post from 2012
• NetHack
• FTL: Faster Than Light
• PEP 517 -- A build-system independent format for source trees | Python.org

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