ZX-News #54 30 декабря 2000

Игры

Presentation - Interactive Fiction: a new word! New game and editor adventyur.

              Presentation



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      -= IF: The new era adventyur =

                Entry


   Before any Spectrum games today will remove the hat 
geymmeykery and enlightened players? I think by title it is 
clear that we have in mind. :) Of course, world, not even, the 
universe adventyurnyh Games Spectrum.



   In that golden era of Spectrum heyday, when there was such a 
crazy race a soulless technology that is happening now in the 
modern of Computer plaformah and consoles at a time when

born each year a whole new game genres, queen of the ball was 
adventyura. 


   You know, I just now came up with
interesting thought: the era of computer games began with the 
advent of adventyury. It lasted until the reign of honor, 
committed and the opening of the gaming genres. But as soon as

ancestor fell into oblivion, immediately fell on troubled days 
in the creative plan. Like a stopped some refreshing

stream, which went from adventure - an adventure.
Maybe the thing that's just lies
in this word? ..


   What is a text game? Yes this is
interactive book! Is the analogy with fashionable now dreams of 
an interactive movie? However, how many years the book and how 
much - to the film? For several millennia it is easy to get 
used to the literature and to begin understand it. Against this 
background, some hundred years settling movie looks agree 
palely. :) 


   In any case, today for an interactive movie lacks even the 
most powerful computer equipment (not until the program

which is based on the initial rate can
traced with photographic quality and
required rest, and take off all the camera - not impossible to 
satiate the time). But we're talking about the Spectrum, which 
is now platform for creativity. And it interactive element can 
be realized only in adventyurah that knew for developers

games of the eighties.


   But! All these theories are good, but
Practice stumble with the underwater
stone, as the Russian language. That is a
text game to great and mighty can
but here's to communicate with her ... not so
simple as adventyuroy English
language. Yet the solution was found - Interface adventyura, 
the principle which was first was implemented in the legendary 
group Step "Star heritage." It would seem that prevents build 
such games? Very much. Firstly, the graphics - requires a 
monstrous amount of this. Secondly, we need coordinated team, 
because one is not master. And that's not the fact that one 
person will not be able to draw a graph, write code and text - 
on the contrary, maybe even completely. But there is some 
subtle thing ... 


   It is in humans, specifically in their
types. In short, one who by force
a great plot and text - not
unable or unwilling to learn programming. What's the humanist 
take? :) And here's one for whom codes - a hobby, and he feels 
in them like fish in water ... at trying to write a literary 
text, this Fish is on the shore.



   So what prevents unite these two
facial features? - Cry to someone. No idea. Only Yuri Matveev 
able to assemble a team. We can assume that authority enjoyed 
by only spektrumist, masterfully wielding codes, and therefore 
in groups led by coders who are interested only in the 
technical side of things. Hence, apparently, and all these 
countless attempts to transfer to Spectrum game type

"Doom" ...


   So, the writers, as it turned out, were always in the back, 
remained a loner. What was in their possession? Some Only 
editors adventyur. But these programs were calculated on the 
English language, therefore, attempts to create with them 
Russian-speaking game because of the previously mentioned 
reasons were unsuccessful. Instead of playing guessing engage 
in plural nouns? No really, thank you, say fans adventyur and 
continued to look for Western games. On the other as players 
and say nothing, even though half of them likes to read books, 
and thus are potential adventyurschikami. Just speak English, 
to Unfortunately, not everything, but it's not their fault - so 
much in our schools moronic foreign language course, developed 
with the expectation to discourage people

hunting to be multilingual (it was something
chauvinistic Soviet times). However, again, I digress. :) But 
if you've gotten to this place, I can congratulate: Next comes 
the fun part! 


           Interactive Fiction


   I have to say: a way out! Yes, and pushed us to the idea 
adventyura - Guess-ka, who? - The legendary Level 9

(Maestro, tush!), Which is called "Secret Diary Of Adrian 
Mole". There's no need to type letters! There is no bulky menu 
style "Zzzz". Easier to nowhere: just press one (!) Key and a 
new game pitch done! Because the player is offered

just make a choice between three options for its four-steps 
that are numbered. This principle is used with might and main 
now in the role-playing books (information about them can be 
found in "ZX-Revue"). But most importantly - all perfect for 
Russian language! Judge for yourself based on Example:



    "Before you is a nasty goblin, who barely caught sight of 
you, started dirty grin, shaking his sinister club.


1. Vmazat this blockhead to my newly found sword-samorubom.
2. Try to buy gold, I swapped the old gnome
on a crappy staff.
3. Flee without looking back! ".


   Have you noticed an incredible freedom to
scenario? If that does not have to rack their brains over what 
word pleases to introduce the player to, say,

bribe the goblin. In a typical adventyure
This option reduces to a vegetable "to give the gold goblin." 
But here? Sense of taste _hudozhestvennoy_ books?



   Gentlemen, before you - the very interactive book of its 
genre called Interactive Fiction, which is understood as 
"interactive fiction" (and not fiction, as many think). Another 
IF statement called interactive adventyuroy, this is for

us spektrumistov, somehow familiar, though
and not quite logical, since each adventyura itself is 
interactive (Oh, well tautology! .. :)).



   Well, now that the bailout
genre we'll find, there are very small - a program for creating 
IF games. 


                IF Creator


   Of course, much of the text was not written for the sake of 
pathos statements: and here we are made the first IF in 
Russian, which is located in the annex "ZX-News"! ;-) 
Especially because the game that - just to demonstrate the 
possibilities IF Creator'a (real games yet to come!). Here it's 
just it The reason for the presentation of the article.



   We have developed a system whereby any spektrumist owning a 
good style and imagination, is able to create adventyurny 
masterpiece - it all depends on scenario. The text itself with 
simple labels locations and options is printed in your favorite 
editor - details will be in January "ZX-News", when we finish 
work on the interface (almost everything else

ready) IF Creator'a. The program will include a
application as a game "Where no one had gone before."


   By the way, a couple of words about the game - at the end
all, one must write out our New Year's
gift. :) The script is processing
inimitable Robert Sheckley short story (his
works I was reading in my childhood), and
designed to _odno_ passage, since the location mostly 
duplicated. This is a purely due to lack of time. However, look

definitely worth it! After all, the name of the writer is a 
guarantee of an excellent plot. :) Let "Where are untouched by 
human hands" will be your excursion into the world of 
Interactive Fiction, after which you will learn what it looks 
like externally. IF Spectrum era begins! ..



               Afterword


   If you are seriously interested in this
project, then please contact us, because together achieve a 
lot! We will very welcome any opinions, ideas and suggestions 
and will gladly answer all. 


   Contact address:

Internet: jedi-l@peterlink.ru

   ZXNet: Artur Podtelkoff (500:812 / 08.99)

    Fido: Artur Podtelkoff (2:5030 / 885.50)

Email: 196066, Saint-Petersburg, Leninsky

       Ave, d.176, kv.18, Kalinin Vyache
       glory.


   Or call: (812) 448-58-76, Glory.


P.S. I want to thank Michael and Alexander Zharov
Kolotukhin for assistance with communication in the exchange of 
materials for the game. If not for them, the game would not 
come out before the New Year. 


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