Presentation - Interactive Fiction: a new word! New game and editor adventyur.
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-= IF: The new era adventyur =
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Before any Spectrum games today will remove the hat
geymmeykery and enlightened players? I think by title it is
clear that we have in mind. :) Of course, world, not even, the
universe adventyurnyh Games Spectrum.
In that golden era of Spectrum heyday, when there was such a
crazy race a soulless technology that is happening now in the
modern of Computer plaformah and consoles at a time when
born each year a whole new game genres, queen of the ball was
adventyura.
You know, I just now came up with
interesting thought: the era of computer games began with the
advent of adventyury. It lasted until the reign of honor,
committed and the opening of the gaming genres. But as soon as
ancestor fell into oblivion, immediately fell on troubled days
in the creative plan. Like a stopped some refreshing
stream, which went from adventure - an adventure.
Maybe the thing that's just lies
in this word? ..
What is a text game? Yes this is
interactive book! Is the analogy with fashionable now dreams of
an interactive movie? However, how many years the book and how
much - to the film? For several millennia it is easy to get
used to the literature and to begin understand it. Against this
background, some hundred years settling movie looks agree
palely. :)
In any case, today for an interactive movie lacks even the
most powerful computer equipment (not until the program
which is based on the initial rate can
traced with photographic quality and
required rest, and take off all the camera - not impossible to
satiate the time). But we're talking about the Spectrum, which
is now platform for creativity. And it interactive element can
be realized only in adventyurah that knew for developers
games of the eighties.
But! All these theories are good, but
Practice stumble with the underwater
stone, as the Russian language. That is a
text game to great and mighty can
but here's to communicate with her ... not so
simple as adventyuroy English
language. Yet the solution was found - Interface adventyura,
the principle which was first was implemented in the legendary
group Step "Star heritage." It would seem that prevents build
such games? Very much. Firstly, the graphics - requires a
monstrous amount of this. Secondly, we need coordinated team,
because one is not master. And that's not the fact that one
person will not be able to draw a graph, write code and text -
on the contrary, maybe even completely. But there is some
subtle thing ...
It is in humans, specifically in their
types. In short, one who by force
a great plot and text - not
unable or unwilling to learn programming. What's the humanist
take? :) And here's one for whom codes - a hobby, and he feels
in them like fish in water ... at trying to write a literary
text, this Fish is on the shore.
So what prevents unite these two
facial features? - Cry to someone. No idea. Only Yuri Matveev
able to assemble a team. We can assume that authority enjoyed
by only spektrumist, masterfully wielding codes, and therefore
in groups led by coders who are interested only in the
technical side of things. Hence, apparently, and all these
countless attempts to transfer to Spectrum game type
"Doom" ...
So, the writers, as it turned out, were always in the back,
remained a loner. What was in their possession? Some Only
editors adventyur. But these programs were calculated on the
English language, therefore, attempts to create with them
Russian-speaking game because of the previously mentioned
reasons were unsuccessful. Instead of playing guessing engage
in plural nouns? No really, thank you, say fans adventyur and
continued to look for Western games. On the other as players
and say nothing, even though half of them likes to read books,
and thus are potential adventyurschikami. Just speak English,
to Unfortunately, not everything, but it's not their fault - so
much in our schools moronic foreign language course, developed
with the expectation to discourage people
hunting to be multilingual (it was something
chauvinistic Soviet times). However, again, I digress. :) But
if you've gotten to this place, I can congratulate: Next comes
the fun part!
Interactive Fiction
I have to say: a way out! Yes, and pushed us to the idea
adventyura - Guess-ka, who? - The legendary Level 9
(Maestro, tush!), Which is called "Secret Diary Of Adrian
Mole". There's no need to type letters! There is no bulky menu
style "Zzzz". Easier to nowhere: just press one (!) Key and a
new game pitch done! Because the player is offered
just make a choice between three options for its four-steps
that are numbered. This principle is used with might and main
now in the role-playing books (information about them can be
found in "ZX-Revue"). But most importantly - all perfect for
Russian language! Judge for yourself based on Example:
"Before you is a nasty goblin, who barely caught sight of
you, started dirty grin, shaking his sinister club.
1. Vmazat this blockhead to my newly found sword-samorubom.
2. Try to buy gold, I swapped the old gnome
on a crappy staff.
3. Flee without looking back! ".
Have you noticed an incredible freedom to
scenario? If that does not have to rack their brains over what
word pleases to introduce the player to, say,
bribe the goblin. In a typical adventyure
This option reduces to a vegetable "to give the gold goblin."
But here? Sense of taste _hudozhestvennoy_ books?
Gentlemen, before you - the very interactive book of its
genre called Interactive Fiction, which is understood as
"interactive fiction" (and not fiction, as many think). Another
IF statement called interactive adventyuroy, this is for
us spektrumistov, somehow familiar, though
and not quite logical, since each adventyura itself is
interactive (Oh, well tautology! .. :)).
Well, now that the bailout
genre we'll find, there are very small - a program for creating
IF games.
IF Creator
Of course, much of the text was not written for the sake of
pathos statements: and here we are made the first IF in
Russian, which is located in the annex "ZX-News"! ;-)
Especially because the game that - just to demonstrate the
possibilities IF Creator'a (real games yet to come!). Here it's
just it The reason for the presentation of the article.
We have developed a system whereby any spektrumist owning a
good style and imagination, is able to create adventyurny
masterpiece - it all depends on scenario. The text itself with
simple labels locations and options is printed in your favorite
editor - details will be in January "ZX-News", when we finish
work on the interface (almost everything else
ready) IF Creator'a. The program will include a
application as a game "Where no one had gone before."
By the way, a couple of words about the game - at the end
all, one must write out our New Year's
gift. :) The script is processing
inimitable Robert Sheckley short story (his
works I was reading in my childhood), and
designed to _odno_ passage, since the location mostly
duplicated. This is a purely due to lack of time. However, look
definitely worth it! After all, the name of the writer is a
guarantee of an excellent plot. :) Let "Where are untouched by
human hands" will be your excursion into the world of
Interactive Fiction, after which you will learn what it looks
like externally. IF Spectrum era begins! ..
Afterword
If you are seriously interested in this
project, then please contact us, because together achieve a
lot! We will very welcome any opinions, ideas and suggestions
and will gladly answer all.
Contact address:
Internet: jedi-l@peterlink.ru
ZXNet: Artur Podtelkoff (500:812 / 08.99)
Fido: Artur Podtelkoff (2:5030 / 885.50)
Email: 196066, Saint-Petersburg, Leninsky
Ave, d.176, kv.18, Kalinin Vyache
glory.
Or call: (812) 448-58-76, Glory.
P.S. I want to thank Michael and Alexander Zharov
Kolotukhin for assistance with communication in the exchange of
materials for the game. If not for them, the game would not
come out before the New Year.
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