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From: daedulus@eskimo.com (Erik Hermansen)
Subject: Re: Your First Game (was Re: Inhumane out)
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 05:21:36 GMT
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I remember some article in Family Computing that explained in half a page 
how to write your very own adventure game in BASIC!  It included source 
code, even:

  10 print "You are standing on a road.  A monster attacks!"
  20 print "Type 'R' to run or Type 'A' to attack."
  30 input x$
  40 if x$ = "R" then goto 70
  50 if x$ = "A" then goto 90
  60 goto 20
  70 print "Good move.  You get away without a scratch!"
  80 end
  90 print "The monster eats you!"
  100 end

"Wow!  This is easy!" I thought, and wrote thousands of lines of 
"if...then goto" code on my Mom's Kaypro II computer to create the 
"Castle of Chalzonk" which was sort of like Dragons Lair with the crappy 
interactivity and without the graphics.  I called in my little sister to 
try it out.

"What is it?"

"It's a game I made.  It's real cool.  You'll like it!"

She wasn't very good at my game, she didn't even know how to avoid all of 
the "syntax error in line 1053" and "return without gosub" messages, but 
I gave her lots of encouragement--okay, I pleaded with her to keep 
playing it after she got bored.

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-----------------------------------------Erik Hermansen (daedulus@eskimo.com)
