Frequently-Asked Questions

What's the point of the game?, AKA, what am I trying to achieve by playing?

Dungeon is a world of puzzles. You solve them to collect points. 585 points: you win!

To do this you'll need to explore the World; try many crazy experiments; die many times; Save and Restore. You can Ask for suggestions from other players, including players currently inside the TriadCity and Midgaard Worlds. You can Google the many Dungeon and Zork wikis and walk-throughs. Or you can leave it entirely to your own wit and ingenuity.

Generations of players have found this World hilarious, absorbing, and slightly nuts. We hope you will too!

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"In 1455, Gutenberg invented the printing press -- but not the book as we know it. Books printed before 1501 are called incunabula; the word is derived from the Latin for swaddling clothes and is used to indicate that these books are the work of a technology still in its infancy. It took fifty years of experimentation and more to establish such conventions as legible typefaces and proof sheet corrections; page numbering and paragraphing; and title pages, prefaces, and chapter divisions, which together made the published book a coherent means of communication. The garish videogames and tangled Web sites of the current digital environment are part of a similar period of technical evolution, part of a similar struggle for the conventions of coherent communication.

Now, in the incunabular days of the narrative computer, we can see how twentieth-century novels, films and plays have been steadily pushing against the boundaries of linear storytelling."
— Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (info)