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- Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:29 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Twine games?
- Replies: 15
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Re: Twine games?
I don't usually play modern games or they need to have a classic look and feel. Many of them are more like reading an interactive book rather than an adventurous mappable puzzle game.
I couldn't agree more, but you can't start omitting games just because you don't like them. There is one hell ...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:51 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Twine games?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34953
Re: Twine games?
Let's stop referring to Twine games. Twine is just an authoring system. There are plenty of other authoring systems for these types of games, like ChoiceScript, Ink, Undum and many others.
What we are really talking about is choice-based games, also known as choose your own adventure (CYOA ...
What we are really talking about is choice-based games, also known as choose your own adventure (CYOA ...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:25 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Twine games?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34953
Re: Twine games?
It is very unfortunate that other forms of games hijacked the term "interactive fiction" long after Infocom started using it in marketing materials to describe text adventures. Even the term "adventure" was hijacked by the arcade game world, forcing us to change the term to "text adventure". People ...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:02 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Twine games?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34953
Re: Twine games?
Oh, please no. They are not classics. They are not in the style of classic text adventures. They are not parser-driven games. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of these games. The database is polluted enough without adding more. Let's just stick to classic text adventures. If someone wants to ...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:55 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
- Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:45 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
The contents of the Amstrad book are identical to the contents of the MSX book, so if I can find a pdf of the former and it has the missing section, I will be able to do the Amstrad version and fix the MSX version. So near, yet so far.
I must agree on Steve Lucas' programming skills. He was a ...
I must agree on Steve Lucas' programming skills. He was a ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
Steve Lucas is famous for writing buggy games. He has outdone himself with 'A Journey through Space'. The game is impossible to finish!
The aim of the game is to repair your spaceship. In the first room, you find a damaged panel. I presume this is something that has to be repaired, so the first ...
The aim of the game is to repair your spaceship. In the first room, you find a damaged panel. I presume this is something that has to be repaired, so the first ...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 2:31 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
I'm sure nobody is the least bit interested in this, but I finished checking the typing for 'A Journey through Space' and did an extra version to read the data file from disk, rather than cassette. Let's see if I can get through it without all the 'Out of string space' errors.
Incidentally, I am ...
Incidentally, I am ...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
I'm not but if you haven't seen it yet there is a wiki on MSX-BASIC Instructions which may be of some use. In the meantime you could try various clear values, starting at 4000 and increasing or decreasing the value by a few thousands or hundreds until you get to a value that works.
Thanks ...
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:07 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
Oh, crap! I spoke too soon. I just got an 'Out of string space in 2890' error. It looks like it won't work with disk. I'll have to save it to a cassette image and try it from that. Any MSX experts out there?
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
Just a little update.
I've typed in all three games from the MSX Adventure Programming book. The first one (The Wizard's Quest) is complete and I've started playing it. I need to play it to completion to make sure there are no typing errors. I did notice a few bugs as I was typing it in, so I might ...
I've typed in all three games from the MSX Adventure Programming book. The first one (The Wizard's Quest) is complete and I've started playing it. I need to play it to completion to make sure there are no typing errors. I did notice a few bugs as I was typing it in, so I might ...
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:12 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
Agreed. Now that I've got the source code, I'll be able to determine any commonality. Just off the cuff, they don't appear to be the same as any of the others, as the maps published in the book are quite different (I think). Time will tell.
For what it's worth, Snow White has graphics and Wizard's ...
For what it's worth, Snow White has graphics and Wizard's ...
- Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:43 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
No room in my house for physical books any more. PDFs are better. I'll type in the listings as soon as I can and make them available to others.
- Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:49 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 345737
Re: Steve W. Lucas games
Of course I'd like to see it. I've sent you a PM. I'll type in the listings as soon as time permits.iamaran wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:52 pm I've just been emailed a pdf of MSX Adventure Programming if you'd like to see it. There are listings for Wizard's Quest, Snow White and A Journey Through Space.
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:21 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Juleadventurespil type-in from 'Hjemmedata'
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15334
Re: Juleadventurespil type-in from 'Hjemmedata'
Thanks guys.