''Dragonworld'' is an

interactive fiction '' Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the ...

game with graphics. The game was published by

Telarium Telarium Corporation (formerly Trillium) was a brand owned by Spinnaker Software. The brand was launched in 1984 and Spinnaker was sold in 1994. The headquarters were located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The President of Telarium was C. Da ...

(formerly Trillium), a subsidiary of

Spinnaker Software Spinnaker Software was a software company founded in 1982John Case. ''Digital Future'', William Morrow : New York, N.Y. 1985. p. 122. known primarily for its line of non-curriculum based educational software, which was a major seller during the ...

, in the year 1984. The game was based on the novel written in 1979 by

Byron Preiss Byron Preiss (April 11, 1953 – July 9, 2005)Byron Preiss
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and Michael Reaves; text for the game was written by J. Brynne Stephens.

Reception

A German reviewer recognized the detailed graphics and the atmospheric fantasy prose.

Text parser {{Refimprove, date=August 2007 In adventure games, a text parser takes typed input (a command) from the player and simplifies it to something the game can understand. Usually, words with the same meaning are turned into the same word (e.g. "take" a ...

, graphics and storyline got the score "sehr gut" (very good).Heinrich Lenhardt: ''Hilfe für den letzten Drachen'', Happy Computer 6/1985 and ''7 Klasse-Adventures auf einen Streich'', Happy Computer 9/1985, p.146f.

External links

Dragonworld
at ''Museum of Computer Adventure Game History'' by Howard Feldman * *

References

1980s interactive fiction 1984 video games Apple II games Commodore 64 games DOS games MSX games Video games based on novels Video games developed in the United States Telarium games {{adventure-videogame-stub