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World Builder
World Builder is a game creation system for point-and-click adventure games. It was released in 1986 by Silicon Beach Software and had already been used for creating Enchanted Scepters in 1984. On August 7, 1995, developer William C. Appleton released World Builder as freeware. Functionality The games World Builder created used different layers of code to manipulate the images the game contained: object code, scene code, and finally world code. The World Template included with the program contained default world code with default failure responses to standard text commands like north, south, up, down, and so on. Other than actions with characters (which were always combat oriented) and clicking on objects to pick them up everything had to set up through code and dialog boxes. The map is organized in compass directions and up/down as was common in earlier interactive fiction. Characters can be defined to move around independently and interacted with. There is also a special p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' is one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with '' Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaces the ''Dragon'' magazine, launched in 2015. It is created by Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strategic Review''. At the time, roleplaying g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wishing Well (game)
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Star Trek Game
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Ray's Maze
''Ray's Maze'' is a graphic adventure game, released in 1990. ''Ray's Maze'' was created with the World Builder game creation system by Ray Dunakin. With no formal training, Ray started making World Builder games on the family computer with his son in 1989. After creating several simple games together, Ray started developing a complex puzzle game. This ended up becoming Ray's Maze and was released as shareware Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer .... The player takes on the role of "Fearless" Frank Farley exploring an interdimensional maze through teleportation devices known as "jump doors." Their goal is to both escape the maze and collect enough valuables to cover the cost of the journey, $1,000. Starting in a store where the player can purchase items to take with them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Castle
''Radical Castle'' is a point-and-click adventure game released for Macintosh in 1986, developed in World Builder and distributed as shareware by Christopher Kent Wigginton. Players assume the role of the 'Squire', who after mistaking the princess for a serving wench, is given a choice by the King between death and a quest to recover an oracle stolen by a wizard. At one point of the game an area identical to the opening screen of '' Enchanted Scepters'' is shown; if the player chooses to go forward a prompt is given encouraging the player to purchase ''Enchanted Scepters'' from Silicon Beach Software. The game was distributed on magazine shareware collection disks, Macintosh user group mail-outs, and pre-Internet online services. Gaming historian Richard Moss described it as a standout amongst early World Builder games, popular with players due to its Monty Python-esque humor. At the height of its popularity the game made the top 100 downloads on GEnie. It can be played on a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quest For T-Rex
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure prominently in the folklore of every nation and ethnic culture. In literature, the object of a quest requires great exertion on the part of the hero, who must overcome many obstacles, typically including much travel. The aspect of travel allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures (an objective of the narrative, not of the character). The object of a quest may also have supernatural properties, often leading the protagonist into other worlds and dimensions. The moral of a quest tale often centers on the changed character of the hero. Quest objects The hero normally aims to obtain something or someone by the quest, and with this object to return home. The object can be something new, that fulfills a lack in their life, or something that was stol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Of Mayhem
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Midnight Snack (game) '', a 1941 ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon
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Midnight Snack may refer to: * A midnight snack, a small late night meal * "Midnight Snack" (''Robot Chicken''), a 2005 episode of ''Robot Chicken'' * ''Midnight Snack'' (album), a 2015 album by Homeshake * ''The Midnight Snack ''The Midnight Snack'' is a ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon released on July 19, 1941. It is the second of the ''Tom and Jerry'' films, returning to the basic premise of the previous film, '' Puss Gets the Boot'', following that cartoon's Academy Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Crystal
''Enchanted Scepters'' is a point-and-click adventure game, released in 1984. The player must find the four fire, earth, air and water scepters hidden across the Kingdom, and return them to the Wizard. The gameplay is much like a text adventure game; the screen shows a picture of the room the player is currently in and to the right is a description of the room. The description mentions any items that can be used or picked up, but to do that the player must click on the item in the picture. The pictures change as the player moves to a new scene. There is no movement in the picture, but enemies are inserted when encountered, accompanied by sound effects. The player can then choose from a drop down menu whether to flee, and which way (north, south, east or west and occasionally up or down), or to fight, and with which weapon. ''Enchanted Scepters'' was created with the World Builder adventure authoring system which was later released to consumers in 1986 The year 1986 was desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bug Hunt
Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby. Most insects are small and the majority cannot be identified without the examination of minute morphological characters, so entomologists often make and maintain insect collections. Very large collections are conserved in natural history museums or universities where they are maintained and studied by specialists. Many college courses require students to form small collections. There are also amateur entomologists and collectors who keep collections. Historically, insect collecting has been widespread and was in the Victorian age a very popular educational hobby. Insect collecting has left traces in European cultural history, literature and songs (e.g., Georges Brassens's ''La chasse aux papillons'' (''The Hunt for Butterflies'')). The practice is particularly common among Japanese youths. Collecting techniques Insects are passively caught using funnels, pitfall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Mess O' Trouble
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
