LOTRD is back!
Hey guys! I've got some news to tell you all... TLOTRD is now back on after about 3 months absence! :D
For those of you who don't know what the hell I'm on about, LOTRD (short for The Legend Of The Red Dragon) is a new adventure game for the Speccy that I started making over a year ago in BASIC. Unfortunately, I had problems galore with it. When I updated the demo to my site (www.freewebs.com/apsoft), people critisized it for having a rather awkward text parser, making the game more difficult to play than it should've been. I then decided to make it in GAC, but gave up when I could only do what GAC was capable of doing (I couldn't do my betting game!).
You can all say goodbye to a GAC version but not a BASIC version, as I'm gonna try it again with some new ideas!
Say goodbye to the rather awkward text parser, and say hello to the CYA (Choose Your Action) interface! You now get a list of actions that you can do, all of which depend on where you are and what you're doing. And there'll be graphics in there too!
Once I write a few practice program routines (I still don't know how the battles will work yet, but I'm getting there ok!) I'll then start (re)making the game for real. The game should be finished by around christmas time.
For those of you who don't know what the hell I'm on about, LOTRD (short for The Legend Of The Red Dragon) is a new adventure game for the Speccy that I started making over a year ago in BASIC. Unfortunately, I had problems galore with it. When I updated the demo to my site (www.freewebs.com/apsoft), people critisized it for having a rather awkward text parser, making the game more difficult to play than it should've been. I then decided to make it in GAC, but gave up when I could only do what GAC was capable of doing (I couldn't do my betting game!).
You can all say goodbye to a GAC version but not a BASIC version, as I'm gonna try it again with some new ideas!
Say goodbye to the rather awkward text parser, and say hello to the CYA (Choose Your Action) interface! You now get a list of actions that you can do, all of which depend on where you are and what you're doing. And there'll be graphics in there too!
Once I write a few practice program routines (I still don't know how the battles will work yet, but I'm getting there ok!) I'll then start (re)making the game for real. The game should be finished by around christmas time.