Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6

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Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6

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I ported the game Warlord, published by Argus Specialist Publications, to Inform 6 using the PunyInform Library. I fixed bugs, inconsistencies, and blocking situations.

The game code in Basic is simple, yet the adaptation proves complex, as is often the case with the Inform6 dedicated libraries!

https://gitlab.com/auraes/en_mode_texte ... type=heads
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Nice.
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There is something amusing about the inventory. It seems to be limited to four items; if you try to take a fifth, it responds: ‘I can't carry that much!’ and does not take the item. If you insist and try again to take a fifth, it accepts it and displays: 'My back is hurting.' If you try to take a sixth, it says: ’You have broken my back.', and you die. So it is possible to carry five items, not four!
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That's original...and amusing.
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It's not easy to implement with PunyInform. In any case, the solution I've implemented is quite cumbersome. I'll think about this issue again one of these days.
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#6 Post by auraes »

Reading Dorothy Millard's walkthrough for Paul Price's Giant's Gold, it seems that this is the same game as Warlord.
In his walkthrough, Garry wonders why the game is called Warlord: probably an arbitrary title to hide the fact that it is simply plagiarism. I haven't compared the source codes.
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Re: Porting Warlord (Argus Specialist Publications) to Inform 6

#7 Post by Strident »

Good spot. Yep, looking at the listings, Warlord is a version of Giant's Gold.
https://archive.org/details/micro-adven ... /page/n41/
https://www.flaxcottage.com/GamesComputing/8405.pdf

No credit listed in Games Computing, so potentially Paul Price could still have been the one who also submitted it there.
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I thought that publishing the source code listing was remunerated; if that is the case, he must have known the author's name.
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