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by Strident
Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:53 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Who or what is "GAC user"?
Replies: 6
Views: 5012

Re: Who or what is "GAC user"?

I have a feeling that "GAC user" is just a placeholder that has been copied across archives.

City for Ransom, for instance, I know from Adventure Probe, was originally sold directly by the author and later re-published by WoW. I think I added the WoW Software tag but didn't delete the "GAC user ...
by Strident
Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:47 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Who or what is "GAC user"?
Replies: 6
Views: 5012

Re: Who or what is "GAC user"?

Definitely not a pseudonym, for all the reasons you stated. Those authors are known.

From a bit of research, there was a GAC Users Group run by Barry Roberts in Mold, but I don't think they're connected. Incentive may have had an official user club but I've not come across a reference to that yet ...
by Strident
Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:22 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Genre Suggestions
Replies: 48
Views: 26316

Re: Genre Suggestions

There seems to be quite a few modern games...
https://ifdb.tads.org/viewlist?id=qq1c7anjd2gnanxl
by Strident
Sun Dec 09, 2018 3:22 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Genre Suggestions
Replies: 48
Views: 26316

Re: Genre Suggestions

After a brief look... yeah, I could see the justification of using 'word play' as a tag for one or two of them, because that's the main mechanic... but is your intention really to use the genre system to tag games which have specific types of puzzles in them? You'd be in danger of turning into ...
by Strident
Sun Dec 09, 2018 3:17 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Genre Suggestions
Replies: 48
Views: 26316

Re: Genre Suggestions

I'm not sure about 'word play' as a genre! So many games used object-based puns! For example, many of the Tartan 'Door' games.

I used to use as many (bad!) puns as possible in my object puzzles. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with them tagged with 'word play' as a genre. Unless the game is 100 ...
by Strident
Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:58 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: A good old reference manual
Replies: 5
Views: 5275

Re: A good old reference manual

Mr Creosote wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:33 pm Like this one?

https://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/play-if-card.pdf
That's a great cribsheet. :)
by Strident
Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:40 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Competition Entries etc. (split from "Genre Suggestions")
Replies: 38
Views: 21890

Re: Competition Entries etc. (split from "Genre Suggestions")


I have an objection with whole idea of flooding the database with pointless (to most) space fillers. The easy argument against this is that there is already tat in there (MIA, unreleased games, games that are just rubbish!) but that is the legacy we have and even some of them have historical ...
by Strident
Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:16 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Competition Entries etc. (split from "Genre Suggestions")
Replies: 38
Views: 21890

Re: Competition Entries etc. (split from "Genre Suggestions")

I imagine that quite a lot of the longer adventures (some might say "proper" adventures, but I'm quite partial to small mini-games myself) that are entered for competition are created quite independently from the competition itself... Entering it for judging is just a way of highlighting a game and ...
by Strident
Wed Dec 05, 2018 8:47 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: A good old reference manual
Replies: 5
Views: 5275

Re: A good old reference manual

The Magnetic Scrolls games used to have really decent manuals which took players through the basics of an adventure. You could certainly use similar headings to structure your own manual.

See for example...
https://msmemorial.if-legends.org/games.htm/download.php?pawn_gpg.pdf

(downloaded from ...
by Strident
Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:04 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted
Replies: 82
Views: 368776

Re: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted

Please delete... http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C79 ... rsons.html as I've combined that entry into the one for The Lost Children.
by Strident
Mon Dec 03, 2018 3:12 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Competition Entries etc. (split from "Genre Suggestions")
Replies: 38
Views: 21890

Re: Competition Entries etc. (split from "Genre Suggestions")

Interesting discussion. I've zero interest in the modern Inform stuff, mainly because I prefer text adventures to interactive fiction, but I can understand the appeal to others. It would be a shame if non-8/16-bit games drowned out the retro games, though.

CASA's strengths are certainly on the ...
by Strident
Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:08 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Hibernated 1 Physical Edition
Replies: 4
Views: 4494

Re: Hibernated 1 Physical Edition

(I did personally prefer the original multi-colour Spectrum PAWed version, but the Spectrum DAAD version does has 42 column text, which some people might prefer).
by Strident
Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:06 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Hibernated 1 Physical Edition
Replies: 4
Views: 4494

Re: Hibernated 1 Physical Edition

On Hibernated 1? I thought everyone would know about that by now! :)

The official download site is probably the best place for https://8bitgames.itch.io/hibernated1

Stefan originally wrote the game using Quill for the C64. He then ported it, using inPAWs & PAWs, to the Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CP/M ...
by Strident
Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:22 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Hibernated 1 Physical Edition
Replies: 4
Views: 4494

Hibernated 1 Physical Edition

Stefan Vogt's Hibernated 1 text adventure, for C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, PC, Amiga & ST is now available for pre-order as a physical edition, in your chosen format. Comes in a shrink-wrapped proper big box with an exclusive bonus text adventure, a mission patch, manual, stickers, a poster, and a ...
by Strident
Fri Nov 30, 2018 2:37 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted
Replies: 82
Views: 368776

Re: Duplicate Game - Eurorun


Hmmmm....WoS lists the game as coming in two language variants, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian. From what I know, which admittedly isn't a lot, the languages are sufficiently different to warrant two db entries.

Cool. I was having trouble loading in the other variant so wasn't sure if it had just ...