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Into the Depths: Kentucky Route Zero - Part 3

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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Colossal Cave Adventure Isn't a Reference

"I'd like to thank you for bringing up this question of memory because I've been stewing on it and I came to a realization in this episode of Kentucky Rizzero," says the game's creator. " colossal cave adventure here is a memory palace where different chambers store like different treatments of a history of America right like where the hall of the mountain king maybe stores this history of kind of computation and boiling things down to to metrics", he adds. 'You get oh not just a reference to colossal cave adventure you get like a navigation system for telling this weird story about the history of America that has all of these elements in it' said Donald, who was inspired by Project Xanad

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