This adventure stack was put together by myself and my second-grade class. I got the idea by playing a couple of PD/shareware games in the class and running into some things that were not suitable for second graders. Nothing serious, just a bit off-color. A bit of sex, a bit of drugs. Anyway, I thought I'd like to find a relatively simple game they could play in short time. Couldn't find one. So I had them write one.
We called it "Kaunakakai Adventure" because we are at Kaunakakai Elementary School in Kaunakakai, Hawaii.
The game is pretty straight-forward. No real difficult puzzles, no big problems with mapping. It can be played in 10-15 minutes. Just follow the buttons. If there is nobody to fight, there won't be a "Fight" button. If you can't go East yet, there won't be an "E" button.
Click on things or areas or on buttons. Be sure to click on the critters. If you want to go East, click on the E button or on the side of the picture. To take stuff, click on it.
I don't know much about HyperCard programming and didn't have time to learn much. We threw this game together in the last few weeks of school. So the stack is probably a lot bigger than it need be. I used lots of cards. Compacted, with HyperCard, an empty Home card and a minimal System/Finder (no extra fonts, one DA) set up, it takes up 790K. In this .sit file I am including an almost blank Home card. You will need it to be able to fit all on one disk. If you have two drives or a hard disk, you won't need it.
The stack is protected, but not with a password. So to unprotect it, just press the control key while pulling down the File menu. Click on "Protect Stack..." and click on "Scripting" in the dialogue box (not that there is anything interesting in any of the scripts). If you are using the minimal Home card mentioned above, this won't work.
The students wrote most of the script and drew the pictures on paper. I copied them into the stack as best as I could, which wasn't very good. Oh, well.
Herewith are some hints:
1. The Ninja is inescapable. He will always triumph.
2. The first door on the left leads to an inescapable room.
3. There are some friendly denizens around.
There is no way to save the game, but since it is so short that isn't necessary. To go to a room you just left, don't use "Go Previous" because the cards are not in order. Use "Go Recent."
I guess that's that. You can spread this around, just keep this letter with the stack. If you like the game please write a post card to any one of the students on the opening screen at the address below. They will share it with the other authors. If you want to change the game around go ahead. But I think anyone with more than a minimal amount of HC knowledge will be able to do a better job from scratch.
By the way, I won't be at the school next year, I am moving to Maui.
