A classmate when I was at Harvey Mudd created an Adventure-type game called “Escape from Harvey Mudd” that got sufficient popularity that the administration requested he rename it and it became “Escape from Grid Tech.”
Wow, you've mentioned something that almost doesn't exist on the Web. The only hit on Google [1] says that dev is named Matthew Ford. I kinda enjoy these style of games - I wonder if there's any chance of it seeing the light of day again?
I’d guess close to zero. A few years after graduation, I bought the card game he created not knowing it was his work until I was back at my hotel room and looking through the manual and recognized the logo on the back page of the manual as the same logo he used on the Escape from Harvey Mudd.
(Fun trivia, neither Matt nor I actually graduated from Mudd. He ended up getting his degree from Pomona College and I got mine from Pitzer.)
(I also find myself thinking about so much software that has vanished over the years—my DVI previewer for VM/CMS plus the VAX/VMS change files for all the TeX software that I maintained in the 80s. There’s got to be a lot of even more interesting software where the only copies have almost certainly long since vanished.)
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A classmate when I was at Harvey Mudd created an Adventure-type game called “Escape from Harvey Mudd” that got sufficient popularity that the administration requested he rename it and it became “Escape from Grid Tech.”
Wow, you've mentioned something that almost doesn't exist on the Web. The only hit on Google [1] says that dev is named Matthew Ford. I kinda enjoy these style of games - I wonder if there's any chance of it seeing the light of day again?
[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,6...
I’d guess close to zero. A few years after graduation, I bought the card game he created not knowing it was his work until I was back at my hotel room and looking through the manual and recognized the logo on the back page of the manual as the same logo he used on the Escape from Harvey Mudd.
(Fun trivia, neither Matt nor I actually graduated from Mudd. He ended up getting his degree from Pomona College and I got mine from Pitzer.)
(I also find myself thinking about so much software that has vanished over the years—my DVI previewer for VM/CMS plus the VAX/VMS change files for all the TeX software that I maintained in the 80s. There’s got to be a lot of even more interesting software where the only copies have almost certainly long since vanished.)