New Game: Bounty

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• WhenIWasCruel

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  oh, new adv. games are rare.

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• WhenIWasCruel

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  it seems nice too. glad that's it's not a fantasy, by the way.

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• MattLamb

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Excellent. I was never in to adventure games back in the day, but I've promised myself I would get into them now, so this seems like a good place to start. Have moved through the first few locations, and will play it more extensively later.
  
  Good work!
• ANDREW RYALS

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  stuck at the small and large droid section. Have no idea what use the card is for or the green fluid! Maybe an acid to attack the guard droids?
• Alessandro Grussu

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Nice but really easy - I finished it in about 20 mins.
  

  Spoiler:

  Andrew - You need to take the moss you can find in front of the bunker and drop it in the store to make it react with the green liquid to turn it into acid, which will help you get rid of the smaller droid.

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• ANDREW RYALS

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  managed to work that bit out, I've got frooge and the wire but cant work out the commands to detain him.
• Alessandro Grussu

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  ANDREW RYALS wrote: »

  managed to work that bit out, I've got frooge and the wire but cant work out the commands to detain him.

  Spoiler:

  TIE WIRE in the location where Frooge has surrendered. He then goes down the pit. You must follow him.

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• ANDREW RYALS

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Finished, nice! Help needed only once, quite easy and a real wheeze!
• LCD

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Cool! Again a ZXBC authored game. Looks very good.
• ANDREW RYALS

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Paul-J wrote: »

  Introducing my new text adventure game - Bounty.
  This has some improvements over my previous adventure, especially around the parser...
  
  Download it from here.
  
  Hope you enjoy it.

  
  
  What was your previous adventure??
• Morkin

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Ooh, just been having a quick go at the Miser so will try this soon..!
• Gedlion

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Very nice! Look forward to hacking on this one. No way I'll beat it in 20 minutes. Haven't seen a new adventure in a while. Not since...well, your last one, Paul!
  
  And I'm suddenly glad I spent the time to get the print42 library routine working :-) Looks like it uses that! Woot!
  
  
  Any chance of releasing source code? Needs an entry on http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Released_Programs
• LCD

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  ANDREW RYALS wrote: »

  What was your previous adventure??

  
  His previous Adventure was "A Broken Friend": http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027296, and it is also authored with ZXBC.
• ANDREW RYALS

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Ah that adventure. I could get nowhere in it. Must try again.
• Paul-J

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Gedlion wrote: »

  Very nice! Look forward to hacking on this one. No way I'll beat it in 20 minutes. Haven't seen a new adventure in a while. Not since...well, your last one, Paul!
  
  And I'm suddenly glad I spent the time to get the print42 library routine working :-) Looks like it uses that! Woot!
  
  
  Any chance of releasing source code? Needs an entry on http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/ZX_BASIC:Released_Programs

  
  Yes, it uses the print42 code - really nice routine :-D
  
  The source code is... a mess... and I doubt anyone would learn anything from it other than how not to write code!
  
  Thanks for all the comments and feedback.
  Hopefully the game is an improvement on the last one even if it was a bit easier..

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• Alessandro Grussu

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  I just sent a complete solution of the game at The Tipshop.

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• Shaun.Bebbington

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  I got trapped in the lift with 0 lit up and there were no exits! :-/ I am rubbish at text adventures... though this one is rather kinder than most that I've played.
  
  Regards,
  
  Shaun.
• ANDREW RYALS

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Try typing "press one" to get to floor one, and "press two" for floor two. You will need an object to fit both the droids on both of the different levels so keep your eyes skimmed.
• Shaun.Bebbington

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  ANDREW RYALS wrote: »

  Try typing "press one" to get to floor one, and "press two" for floor two. You will need an object to fit both the droids on both of the different levels so keep your eyes skimmed.

  I thought that I'd tried that, and to no avail. What worked was, oddly, press card as I'd gone through everything else (even going back to get more moss and throwing that on the floor and stuff). I'll try again anyway.
  
  Edit: Yeah, press 1 rather than one works... D'oh!
  
  Paul: I'd like to see the source code to see if I can make it happen on another platform, if you don't mind?
  
  Regards,
  
  Shaun.
• R-Tape

  July 2015

  Had a go on this at the weekend. I never play text adventures, and am bad at them, so though I'd have a proper go, drawing a map and all that.
  
  It's nicely the done bar the occasional typo, good scene setting and the early puzzles very manageable.
  
  I made good progress but got stuck in the large building, and couldn't use the lifts. It turned out I was using them correctly but thought I had to 'open door' or something.
  
  In the end I cheated and looked at the tipshop. I'm not sure I'd have solved this myself, but I'm disappointed with myself for cheating so readily. I suppose that has to be a downside of having such easy access to info, if it was a long wet summer holiday with no internet I might have soldiered on and solved it myself...

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