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Venture
Version 1.1
Designer for Role Plays
Windows (8MB RAM)
Richard Foley, USA
Shareware 25 $
The VENTURE system provides a complete environment for designing,
building and playing point-of-view, graphic adventure games for
Windows.
The games produced by this system are based around the concept of
rooms. A VENTURE game consists of a series of connected rooms, on
many different levels. These rooms can contain doors, creatures,
sounds, objects, ladders and other items that produce obstacles or
puzzles for the player to overcome. VENTURE produces two types of
adventure games, treasure gathering and destination. A treasure
gathering game is like the original, classic Adventure game. The
player has to explore the rooms, gathering all the treasures and
returning them to a specific room. The game is won when all the
treasures have been gathered. A destination or goal type of game is
one where the player has to rescue someone or reach a certain
destination. The game is won when the player gets to the destination
room.
During game play, the player uses the Play Screen. This screen
provides the player with a view into the room in the direction he or
she is facing. There are 8 possible direction views in a room,
corresponding to compass directions. To play the game, the player
turns around in the room to view different directions, picks up and
uses objects, talks with and/or fights with creatures, opens doors,
jumps over abysses and moves from room to room.
In Design mode, the user designs and builds a game using the various
game design components. The components include: the rooms and their
layout, the objects and their attributes, the creatures and their
attributes, scripts for the creatures so they can talk to the player,
decor items, various level options including random creature attacks
and object thefts and the game setup options. All the design
components are viewed in context as they are designed.
Included with VENTURE are two complete adventure games built with the
VENTURE system. The first, 'The Caverns of Makalu', is a traditional
treasure gathering game that takes place in underground caverns and
has creatures such as dragons, wizards and orcs. The second,
'Starbase Varga', is a destination type game set in space with aliens
and robots. These two games demonstrate the variety of adventures
that can be built with the VENTURE system.
SHAREWARE VERSION
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The Design module in this shareware version is a demo version. All of
the design screens and functions are available except for printing and
saving game designs. Also, there is no on-line help for the Design
module. This demo version of the Design module is included so you can
try it out and see if you like building adventures. If you want to
build large adventure games, you can buy the registered version of
VENTURE and receive the full Design module. In the registered version
you can build and distribute adventures with a limit of 500 rooms and
50 levels. A complete on-line help system, a printed manual and all
design print functions, including maps, are also included.