robertsl@stolaf.UUCP (Laurence C. Roberts) (07/10/85)
The third in the Enchanter-Sorcerer series, that is, Zork VI, will
be - get this - a *GRAPHICS* adventure called Conjurer.
Amazing.
Can they make a game with the depth of their usual games, and with graphics
beyond those of current games, and for a range of machines as wide as they
currently support? I would assume that in order to make conversion easy,
they would have to have a standard sort of graphics package, and that
would most likely mean color-filled line drawings like Penguin Graphics.
All you need to do is adjust the coordinate range and the colors.
Does anyone know how much Infocom games generally differ from machine
to machine? Does the prose have to be shortened for machines with
small-capacity disks?
Although I'd like to see if they pull this one off, there's several other
things I'd rather see them do:
-a multi-disk extra-long adventure
-a multi-player adventure
-a true role-playing game with individual characters
-an adventure game creator for the general public
I got the information (not the opinions) from one of those electronic-games-type
magazines which I was paging through at a newsstand. It also said that
Michael Berlyn, author of Suspended, is leaving Infocom.
If anyone has any more information on Conjurer, or has gotten a New Zork Times
recently, please make a posting about it.
--
Laurence Roberts
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-Ronald Reagan
There he goes again.