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- From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Fantasy Games
- Message-ID: <OKES.93Jan24013546@SunLab40.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:35:46 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
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- In-reply-to: alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu's message of 20 Jan 93 22:45:17 GMT
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- In article <C16CJI.5x9@ecf.toronto.edu> alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu (AL RASHID SHAHIR) writes:
- | >Well you can get some more fun out of both by changing the ground
- | >rules a bit. Try playing with a party of one only. Try it with a
- | >reincarnated character (DM only, I think Chaos Strikes Back would be
- | >impossible like this, though I could be wrong!). Try completing in
- | >minimal real time (DM takes about four hours, maybe less for all I
- | >know. No idea what Chaos Strikes Back takes).
-
- Done that. DM takes a day (a weekend with one character). Chaos takes longer.
- I had to spread it out over a couple of weeks. The problem with finishing
- Chaos with one character is the area of demons at the end.
-
- | Better still, aren't there some DM dungeon editors out there? I'm not sure
- | if there are any for Chaos Strikes Back. ANYWAY, just get the editor, and
- | MAKE yer own dungeons!! Much more fun that way!!!! Even better, make an
- | impossibly hard dungeon and get a dungeon-aholic games player to play it
- | and watch the expression on his face!!!!! B^D
-
- Actually, I am one of the co-authors of the CSB editor that appeared on a
- ST Format coverdisk 2.5 years ago, so I know how to edit the dungeon fine.
- There are problems: you can't add pits, doors, transporters, objects or
- wall features. You can't delete doors or transporters. So there is limited
- scope for decoration. The only real reason for the existence of these editors
- is cheating (printing maps, opening doors etc). That's how one of my
- friends completed Chaos within 11 days of its release :-)
-
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- Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
- undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.
-