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Gremlins

spiderspider
edited May 2010 in Games
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006399

What text parsing (if that's the right word) system does this game use ? I've seen it used quite a few times, I thought it was custom coded for just that game but there's quite a few games that use it (or something very similar) :-?
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited May 2010
    I don't know that the style had a name as such, but it was used by all the Adventure International and Digital Fantasia / Channel 8 adventures in much the same form. It probably got copied by other people as well, but I think that those games were where it appeared first on the Spectrum.
  • MorkinMorkin
    edited May 2010
    One thing that stood out for me about this style was the way the graphics changed depending on your actions.

    I don't know if publicly released software like PAW or GAC allowed you to do stuff like that.

    The location descriptors were always really short too. I suppose there wasn't too much space to add much detail on the screen, with the emphasis on the pretty pictures..
  • spiderspider
    edited May 2010
    Yes it was quite a nice system :) , that's what I wondered if it was available 'bare' as it were.

    Somehow I doubt it now I have thought about it though, or if it was would need a fair bit of assembly.
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