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Wiz Source Code
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Wiz is an improved version of the "Wizard's Castle" game from 1979.

Wiz is a text adventure game taking place in a subterranean castle of 8 x 8 x 8 rooms. The rooms and their contents are randomly generated for each game. There are vendors you can trade with, mystical pools that can give or take away power, warps to far parts of the castle, numerous monsters to fight and assorted treasures to find. The following commands are available:

H/ELP N/ORTH S/OUTH E/AST W/EST U/P D/OWN
L/OOK I/NVENTORY M/AP ST/ATUS A/TTACK C/AST BR/IBE
O/PEN R/EAD G/AZE T/ELEPORT DR/INK SE/LL B/UY
F/LARE LA/AMP Q/UIT

The contents of rooms are as follows:

. = EMPTY ROOM D = STAIRS DOWN O = CRYSTAL ORB T = TREASURE V = VENDOR
B = BOOK E = EXIT P = MAGIC POOL U = STAIRS UP W = WARP
C = CHEST M = MONSTER S = SINKHOLE

The benefits of having treasures are:

ruby red - AVOID LETHARGY pale pearl - AVOID LEECH
green gem - AVOID FORGETTING opal eye - CURES BLINDNESS
blue flame - DISSOLVES BOOKS norn stone - NO BENEFIT
palantir - NO BENEFIT silmaril - NO BENEFIT

The gameplay as explained in Wiz

A long time ago, in the age of the old universal empire the mighty wizard ZOT lived in a large subterranean castle, collecting a lot of fabulous treasures during his long life. Feeling the sources of his vital power draining away, he created a great orb of power the *ORB OF ZOT*. To hide it from the cretins of the surface beyond, he hired a group of esurient monsters to guard the *ORB OF ZOT*. From that time onward, many a bold youth has ventured into the castle, losing his life in cruel and unimaginable ways.

Differences between Wiz and Wizard's Castle

Wiz has several features that are not present in the original Wizard's Castle game. The improved Wiz game has detailed room descriptions. The original game restricts the user to few options in battle and trade situations. The improved version uses the command interface instead. In the original game, rooms can always be left in all four directions. In Wiz, the four directions are not always available. In the original game, there is just one thing in a room (e.g.: either a monster, a pool or a treasure). In Wiz, the things in a room can be combined.


Starting the wizards castle

Jumping over a troll

Meeting a vendor

Attacking a balrog

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