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+Super Wumpus Land
+=================
+
+This is the reference distribution of Super Wumpus Land, a computer game
+by Chris Pressey, based on a legendary game by Gregory Yob.
+
+It contains original version of Super Wumpus Land, written as a Perl
+script, in the `scripts` directory.
+
+It also contains a conversion in Javascript, for playing in a web browser,
+in the `impl/swl.js` directory.  This implementation uses modules from
+`yoob.js` to simulate the terminal in an HTML5 canvas.