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In computing, Xyzzy is sometimes used as a metasyntactic variable or as a video game cheat code. Xyzzy comes from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game, where it is the first " magic string " that most players encounter (others include "plugh" and "plover").
xyzzy or XYZZY may refer to: Xyzzy (computing), a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game, later a metasyntactic variable or a video game cheat code;
William Crowther in 2012 Teleprinter computer terminal. Colossal Cave Adventure was originally created by William Crowther in 1975 and 1976. Crowther and his ex-wife Patricia were both programmers and cavers and had extensively explored Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the longest cave system in the world, in the early 1970s as part of the Cave Research Foundation.
Metasyntactic variables used commonly across all programming languages include foobar, foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, and thud. [1] [3] Two of these words, plugh and xyzzy, are taken from the game Colossal Cave Adventure. [4] A fuller reference can be found in The Hacker's Dictionary from MIT Press.
The XYZZY Awards are the annual awards given to works of interactive fiction, serving a similar role to the Academy Awards for film. [1] The awards were inaugurated in 1997 by Eileen Mullin, the editor of XYZZYnews. [2] Any game released during the year prior to the award ceremony is eligible for nomination to receive an award.
Additional information about the Xyzzies does not belong in this list, but in the main XYZZY Awards article. Cheers. Nespresso 13:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Oppose Poor presentation, limited information and issues with references. It is just one very long bullet-point list. The titles and author names just all blur after a while.
S. John Ross released the commercial Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, which won the XYZZY Award 2007 for the best NPC, in 2010 with Z-machine source code as freeware. [446] More source code of text adventure from the 1970s and 1980s are available at the archive. [447] World Train Royale: 2009 2011 Tycoon game? Freeware: Versus Software
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