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- Welcome to `The Elven Crystals'
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-
- This is `The Elven Crystals', a Text Adventure Game created by Simon P.
- Osborne for your enjoyment. It was written with the aid of CAG (Create
- Adventure Games), a PD package specifically designed to help those
- without access to sophisticated programming languages to write nice
- (-ish) games of the Text (-"Zork"-) style.
-
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- * Shameless Plug Time: *
- * -------------------- *
- * CAG (Create Adventure Games) was used to write this product. *
- * It is the easiest way to create text-style games. It is the *
- * best and USED BY the best!!! (Chortle, Guffaw) Look at The *
- * Elven Crystals if U R still undecided about its excellence! *
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-
- The Elven Crystals was developed over a period of several months, but was
- not deemed good enough by the author to be released to the public. But now
- that the Amiga games forum is becoming more and more empty, I have decided
- to allow the public to see finally the fruitage of my labours, and maybe,
- just maybe, they can enjoy themselves for a couple of hours.
-
- As a Fantasy Game Player for many years, both as a reader of gamebooks and a
- player of RPGs, I have always loved fantasy, and often wondered what it
- would be like to LIVE in such a fantasy world, able to perform many actions
- that gamebooks wouldn't allow, but without the DM. In the case of TEC, your
- trusty Amiga becomes your DM, taking you on a journey of a lifetime where
- you will meet such characters as NED the Hobgoblin and FENGRIS the
- Extra-Planar Spirit Wolf, not forgetting SIMON the NECROMANCER.
-
- While some text games are boring, effort has been made to make the game both
- challenging and enjoyable, and CAG (see above) has made this much easier to
- do. In most text games syntax is very limited, with statements such as
-
- >HIT MONSTER
-
- being the norm. But TEC is more sophisticated. If >ATTACK THING is OK, then
- TEC will reply and act accordingly. But most of the time, you must specify
- what you are going to attack with, such as:
-
- >ATTACK THING WITH WEAPON
-
- or
-
- >THROW BUN AT POPE
-
- or
-
- >HOLD UP MIRROR TO TRANSVESTITE.
-
- This allows for the puzzles to be slightly more tricky, as does the SEARCH
- command, explained in the BOOT-UP sequence more fully. But it also allows
- for the game to be more interesting than simply being a series of directions
- punctuated with badly-grammared commands.
-
- TEC was the second adventure game written by myself (the first being
- slightly destroyed by corruption of data integrity) and if this game is well
- received, maybe I'll do another one ("NO! PLEEEEASE!!!" - LARPers and CCGers)
- It is based on a book called The Elven Crystals (not surprisingly) which was
- part of the DRAGON WARRIORS series of six books (it was the third) which
- aimed to introduce a totally unique RPG system in six short books during
- 1985. The series was written by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson (that may
- mean something to you...?) and I only have the first three books. If anyone
- wants to help me out on the final three I would be surely and definitely
- appreciative...;-D! I also collect old Gamebooks ( I have over 250 at the
- moment) so if you desire to get rid of some of your old gamebooks, write to
- me at my address below and maybe I'll get back to you. If I'm not dead from
- some psycho coming to my house from `down south' and killing me.
-
- Also, if anyone would like to send me
- * a postcard or
- * a photograph of themself or their `group' or
- * a funny text file / story or
- * an alcoholic beverage of some description or
- * some neat new MIDI files for my Amiga or
- * a nice computer picture (IFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc supported) or
- * a nice new Music MOD file (NOT rave music)
- * etc, etc.
-
- then please feel free! I'd like to see how far my game
- can go around the country (the world?????). And I will try to pass the
- information (Picture, MOD, MIDI file etc) to as many people as I can,
- thereby increasing YOUR fame as well! (Please include a DOC file if you
- would like me to do this.)
-
- Useless information on the Author.
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-
- Favourite Game Systems: AD&D, Call of Cthulhu
- Best Ever Character : 21st level Human Warrior in Dragonlance
- Favourite Character : 9th level Half-Elven Bard in Forgotten Realms
- Favourite CCG : Magic - The Gathering 4th Ed.
- Favourite Author(s) : David Eddings and J. R. R. Tolkien
- Favourite Book : The Lord of the Rings
- Favourite Music : Indie
- Best Band(s) : Pulp, Sleeper, Gorkys, Placebo, Madness and any
- other `Indie Slacker' music
- Best Address : 9 Charnwood Road
- Hinckley
- Leics.
- LE10 1PX
- U.K.
- (This is my ONLY address, but I like the superlative
- "BEST")
-
- I realise that this is more information than anyone cares about, but does
- anyone ever read DOC files to games anyway? If you HAVE, then THANK YOU FOR
- READING THIS BORING RUBBISH!!!!!!! You deserve to have a good life. Goodbye,
- see you in the remake in about 20 years.
-
- EOF
-