Hbtvl

When I was a child, I played the Maupiti Island game from Lankhor, on my Atari ST. At that time, I had no idea how you were supposed to win this game, everything was extremely cryptic, the interface sub-par, and you died all the time for apparently no reason. Years later, guides on the Internet were just a series of things to do, also extremely cryptic, and did not explain anything about the game, or what you were supposed to understand.

I had at the back of my mind the project of reversing the game in order to find exactly what was going on, but never took the time to actually do it. Two weeks ago, I decided to try those fancy AI stuff as a reverse engineering assistant. It turned out it was no assistant, Claude did all the work on its own. It managed to infer everything about the game on its own, with just a little bit of prodding on my part.

You can find all it found here, with of course a walkthrough, but more importantly:

• a technical description of the engine
• a time table showing what everyone is doing
• an actual explanation of what is going on in the game
• and many tools you might want to play with

Also there is a surprise in the French version of the site you might enjoy ^^