[HN Gopher] Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electroni...
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Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel
(I solicited feedback from this wonderful community for a draft of
this project eight months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972586 ... I was humbled by
and am wholeheartedly grateful to several brilliant proofreaders;
their names appear at the end of the second chapter.) _Dimity
Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine
Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single
text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go
along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the
next. Think: escape room in the form of a novel -- or, as one
reader put it, "Interactive Fiction meets Advent of Code." A
computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your
choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations --
and might help with the solving too! My wife, the author, passed
away six years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is
the most unusual, unapproachable, and personal of her major works.
It is also, as the only novel of hers that I cannot breeze through
in an afternoon (and despite my unflattering appearance in it), my
favorite. Though _Dimity Jones_ was left unfinished, and perhaps
abandoned, at the time of my wife's death, its elements were all
there, on her hard disk, awaiting only a final compiling. My
contribution to this text has therefore been little more than that
of an occasional copyeditor (my wife was a meticulous speller and
self-proofreader) and playtester. Thank you for checking it out.
Author : larryboyko
Score : 8 points
Date : 2025-01-02 00:17 UTC (1 days ago)
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