The
very first text adventure game I wrote: in 1988, C64 BASIC. It
was being made approximately in a week… Because of this – obviously
– not a sort of any well-established piece; but still it has got
some such characteristics that are already worth taking a notice
of. Although I had just been learning English then (even intensively
at the secondary school, but only for a year or two), my most
fascinating
computer experience was The Pawn adventure game by Magnetic
Scrolls (notwithstanding that I only understood it somewhat,
more or less, with that still incomplete knowledge of the language),
which appeared two years ago. A famous book by Frank DaCosta (Writing
Basic Adventure Programs for the TRS-80 that appeared the
same two years earlier in our country, too) was the other kind
of „basic” experience for me that decided what my mind will constantly
be running on during the next decade. My forming stylistical marks
of genre were mainly specified by these – immediately starting
with the room descriptions light green against a black background.
At the first onset I already tried to use an inflected form text-interpretation
by the parser, and circumstantially verbose descriptions (instead
of some casual notes of one or two words), with some sort of plot
as non-linear as possible (of course I had not such ideas yet
consciously, but the mere intention rather indeed visibly), items/objects
examinable, and inventories embedded in rounded, full sentences
etc. (I even learnt such fine „trifles” by close observation from
the working mode of that great example game that they checked
the given objects being findable already before the analyzing
of the verb and doing intention…) Accordingly I had already known
what I should (and shall) want later on – beginning from the very
first moment.
Robert
Olessak (2011)
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My
Games (1987-2001) /1. |
09/01/2011 |
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Chapter
1: The Beginning… |
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My
Games (1987-2001) |
09/01/2011 |
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My
personal confessions about the development of my games |
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Game(s)
Over… |
09/01/2011 |
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A
picture collection of my games and some others (200
pictures) |
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Brekk! |
09/01/2011 |
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Download
the game (0.3 MB) |
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Brekk!
(solution, Hungarian) (PDF) |
11/11/2011 |
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The
solution of the game (0.1
MB) |
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Brekk!
(CoV-solution) |
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The
solution of the game, in an old Hungarian gaming magazine
(CoV 31) |
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Brekk!
(IFDB) |
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The
IFDB page (Interactive Fiction Database) |
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C64
Games |
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