shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman) (09/24/89)
For those of you who haven't visited your local Mac store in the last week (as well as those who frequent places that aren't quite as current as ComputerWare), the new trial by ordeal from Cliff Johnson is now available. It's called The Puzzle Gallery: At The Carnival. The theme this time is an exceedingly sleazy amusement park, with all the puzzles relating to rides, attractions and other facilities at the park. There are fewer individual types of puzzles than in Fool's Errand and there's no coordinated story tying the whole thing together. On the other hand, the puzzles are properly engrossing, the graphics are well done and there's the added fun of sound effects. The game is packaged as two separate components: the game program and the file containing the puzzles. Promises are made for regular release of new puzzles. Personally, I'll be looking forward to them. Of course, I still have to figure out the last few from this one... -- Hank Shiffman (415) 336-4658 Marketing Technical Specialist Software Engineering Technologies ...!sun!shiffman Sun Microsystems, Inc. shiffman@Sun.com
t-jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs) (09/25/89)
I don't know if Fool's Errand was in color or had much sound but The Puzzle Gallery is full of both. Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) (09/27/89)
In article <125188@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> shiffman@sun.UUCP (Hank Shiffman) writes: >... the new trial by ordeal from Cliff Johnson >is now available. It's called The Puzzle Gallery: At The Carnival. >The theme this time is an exceedingly sleazy amusement park, with all >the puzzles relating to rides, attractions and other facilities at the >park. The rides have such great names as "Colossal Coronary," "Loop-O-Puke," and "Vomit Comet." >There are fewer individual types of puzzles than in Fool's Errand and >there's no coordinated story tying the whole thing together. On the >other hand, the puzzles are properly engrossing, the graphics are well >done and there's the added fun of sound effects. But the ending is a real dud. The sound effects are really good (and some of them are clues to the puzzle). In general, I found "At the Carnival" to be *much* easier than "The Fool's Errand" and not quite as engrossing. But it's still worth the $27 (MacConnection price). -- Geoff Allen \ Disclaimer: WINCO doesn't believe in Macs, {uunet,bigtex}!pmafire!geoff \ so of course these are my views. ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff \
geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) (09/29/89)
In article <783@pmafire.UUCP> I wrote: >The rides have such great names as "Colossal Coronary," "Loop-O-Puke," >and "Vomit Comet." ^^^^^^^^^^^ Oops... "Vomit Comet" should be "Roto-Vomit." Sorry about that. -- Geoff