What exactly are text games?
Thanks Ivan----- Original Message ----- From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:17 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. > Thanks! I tried it and it worked. I've so far been able to get through two > games. > > Ah! It takes me back! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brandon Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 4:37 PM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. > > > > Yep, you're always in the proper field. Type away. haaha. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:34 AM > > Subject: Re: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. > > > > > >> Thanks! I haven't played a text adventure since the early nineties, so > >> I'm > >> a little rusty, and back then I could see where the cursor was on the > >> screen > >> so I knew I was in the right place to type commands. > >> > >> So the things like "examine tree" and "feel" tree you would type in to > >> move > >> the game along? In the winfrotz games, how do you know that your > >> cursor's > >> in the right place to type them in or does it put you there > >> automatically? > >> That was what kind of confused me. I'm used to Jaws telling you when > >> you're > >> in an edit field, so I wasn't sure. > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Brandon Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:00 PM > >> Subject: Re: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. > >> > >> > >>> Welcome to the world of text adventures. > >>> Dence Forest > >>> You are standing in an overgrown wood. The trees around you are thick, > >>> and > >>> branches hang low on all sides. From here, it is unclear which way you > >>> should go, as you seem to be surrounded by nothing but woods. > >>> Furthermore, > >>> you seem to have no recollection of how you got here. > >>> Dence Forest score 0, moves 0 > >>> examine trees > >>> The trees are all quite large and mostly covered in brightly-colored > >>> leaves, > >>> making you believe that fall is either here, or fast approaching. > >>> Strangely > >>> enough, you notice that one of the trees near you is sectioned off. The > >>> branches seem to be evenly spaced apart, as if the tree were made for > >>> easy > >>> climbing. > >>> Dence Forest score 0, moves 1 > >>> feel tree > >>> You put a hand on the tree, and it feels cool. Almost metallic. You tap > >>> it > >>> a > >>> few times, and there is a dull ringing, as if the tree is hollow. > >>> Clearly > >>> this is no work of nature. This is getting stranger by the moment. > >>> Your score has just gone up by one point. > >>> Dence Forest score 1, moves 2 > >>> > >>> I hope this example of a text adventure will give you a better idea of > >>> how > >>> they work. Actually, it was kind of fun writing that. Haha. > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> To: <[email protected]> > >>> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:41 AM > >>> Subject: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi! I greatly fear looking like an idiot, but I just downloaded the > >>>> talking winfrotz interpreter and the game-pack that goes with it and I > >>>> seem to need some help. They work fine as far as going through the > >>>> list > >>>> and selecting a game. But, um how do I actually play the games? Are > >>>> there help files out there or can somebody give me some direction? > >>>> Like, > >>>> once the speech finishes reading me the scene, do I just type what I > >>>> want > >>>> to do, and how do I figure out what that should be, or do I need to use > >>>> hot-keys, and if so, how do I find out what they are? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks. Any help would be appreciated. > >>>> > >>>> Please excuse my total ignorance! > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> to go nomail send a blank message to: > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > >>>> Yahoo! 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