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- From: hellers@ix.netcom.com (Stan Heller)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
- Subject: FABLE:Electronic Note in a Bottle
- Date: 4 Sep 1995 16:09:07 GMT
-
- I was quite surprised yesterday to see that one of the recent
- offerings in the Interactive Fiction Archive was written by
- me and dated 1985. The piece was called "Fable" and after an inquiry
- to Volker Blasius I discovered that not only has this been bouncing
- around the Net for years, it was even panned in a review.
-
- Just for the record, "Fable" was a sketch and never intended for full
- public release. I was helping Mark Welch beta test an adventure
- game authoring system. I guess he needed a few concrete examples
- to demo and he used my stuff. It was not a complete game, never
- intended to be and I am a bit embarrassed to discover it on the
- NET in this form.
-
- To give you all the proper historical context, that sketch was written
- on an IBM PCjr (!!!)
-
- Now that I know it is out there, I suspect I will have to dust off
- the old files and actually write the full game. I think I will use
- a different game authoring system, however.
-
- As I told Volker, I'm not angry about this- just surprised and a
- bit amused. To anyone who took "Fable" as a finished work ( or even
- cared) this is a disclaimer. I did not think the work was finished and
- I never would have published it ot the Net in its present form.
-
-
- =stan
-