Hi It's good to see you on the list. Personally I like interactive fiction games with a lot of choice as to what you can do and different ways of solving puzzles etc. The best way I think of doing this is making a quite complex rpg where you can choose to do things like be good or evil honourable or unforgiving and so on which can really add to a game. I also think that story is extremely important second to gameplay. If you have to make a few spelling or gramatical errors to get that done then that's fine with me. I know that sounds demanding, but it would be better for an if writer to spend a few years on a really good if game then to spend only a few months and make not such a great game. A famous game writer once said that a delayed game is eventually a good game, but a bad game is bad forever. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:29 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Interactive Fiction games
> Hi! Just introducing myself ... > > My name is David Fisher, and I usually hang around the > rec.arts.int-fiction > newsgroup, which is to do with creating Interactive Fiction games. I'm not > actually blind, but I would like to find out if you guys had any > suggestions > about writing games. The most obvious thing I can think of is not to > include > ASCII graphics, like maps and things like that. Any others? > > I was also wondering what your favourite type of Interactive Fiction was. > I > had a look at the first issue of Audyssey, and Michael Feir mentioned a > preference for games that can be replayed ... this can be a bit hard with > Interactive Fiction, since once you know how to solve a puzzle, the > challenge disappears. The plot is also the same every time, unless the > game > generates a different story every time you play - which would be very > cool, > but a huge amount of work to write. > > It may be a while before I get a game written, but I just thought I'd ask > for your point of view on these things. > >>From David Fisher > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
