Danger, adventure, great wealth and an ancient mystery all await you in the abandoned castle!

Werewolves and Wanderer is an old-timey text-adventure in the vein of Zork or Adventure, but much smaller. I recommend playing it in full screen. Werewolves and Wanderer is modified from the game in Tim Hartnell’s book Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer. This particular version of the game tries to hide little from the player opting instead to show you all exits and available commands.

You can get help in the game by typing ‘help’. You can get a list of available commands by typing ‘help commands’. You can type ‘examine’ in certain rooms and you may find some insight into the strange world of Werewolves and Wanderer. It might help to play with a pencil and paper and map out the castle as you navigate it, keeping track of treasure you find and monsters to avoid. Many things in the game are random, but there are a few fixed items. Finding them will be key to reliably navigating the dangers of the ancient abandoned castle.

Reading the code to Werewolves and Wanderers could be an excellent tutor for writing your own text-adventures. Make your own map, creatures, items, and goals, change out the elements in Werewolves and Wanderer and you’ve got your own original adventure. In fact learning how to do this sort of game on the forums is how this game came about.

EDIT: June 26, 2010 – The game has been updated to fix some bugs in the high score table and play again function.

Werewolves and Wanderer was written by Joe Larson inspired and based on the BASIC game of the same name by Tim Hartnell as found in ‘Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer’ (c)1984.