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SwordThrust
''SwordThrust'' is an interactive text adventure game for the Apple II, created by Donald Brown (programmer), Donald Brown and published by CE Software in 1981. It consists of seven separate adventures (each sold separately) and is the commercial successor to Brown's ''Eamon (video game), Eamon'' (1980). Premise Players take on the role of a warrior/adventurer in the magical, feudal world of Diurla. Play begins at the Main Hall of the Guild of Free Rogues, where the player creates a character, buys equipment and learns spells before venturing out to gain wealth and experience. Each scenario has a different goal, and typically a time limit. A save option is available, allowing the player to suspend the game and pick it up later. Adventures Seven separate adventures were released for the ''SwordThrust'' system: # ''The King's Testing Ground'' by Donald Brown. Intended for "beginning rogues", this adventure is the equivalent of Eamon's ''Beginners Cave'' and contains relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SwordThrust Splash
''SwordThrust'' is an interactive text adventure game for the Apple II, created by Donald Brown (programmer), Donald Brown and published by CE Software in 1981. It consists of seven separate adventures (each sold separately) and is the commercial successor to Brown's ''Eamon (video game), Eamon'' (1980). Premise Players take on the role of a warrior/adventurer in the magical, feudal world of Diurla. Play begins at the Main Hall of the Guild of Free Rogues, where the player creates a character, buys equipment and learns spells before venturing out to gain wealth and experience. Each scenario has a different goal, and typically a time limit. A save option is available, allowing the player to suspend the game and pick it up later. Adventures Seven separate adventures were released for the ''SwordThrust'' system: # ''The King's Testing Ground'' by Donald Brown. Intended for "beginning rogues", this adventure is the equivalent of Eamon's ''Beginners Cave'' and contains relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''SwordThrust'' is an interactive text adventure game for the Apple II, created by Donald Brown and published by CE Software in 1981. It consists of seven separate adventures (each sold separately) and is the commercial successor to Brown's '' Eamon'' (1980). Premise Players take on the role of a warrior/adventurer in the magical, feudal world of Diurla. Play begins at the Main Hall of the Guild of Free Rogues, where the player creates a character, buys equipment and learns spells before venturing out to gain wealth and experience. Each scenario has a different goal, and typically a time limit. A save option is available, allowing the player to suspend the game and pick it up later. Adventures Seven separate adventures were released for the ''SwordThrust'' system: # ''The King's Testing Ground'' by Donald Brown. Intended for "beginning rogues", this adventure is the equivalent of Eamon's ''Beginners Cave'' and contains relatively easy opponents. # ''The Vampyre Caves'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Text Adventure
'' 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 form of interactive narratives or interactive narrations. These works can also be understood as a form of video game, either in the form of an adventure game or role-playing game. In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be " text-only", however, graphical text adventures still fall under the text adventure category if the main way to interact with the game is by typing text. Some users of the term distinguish between interactive fiction, known as "Puzzle-free", that focuses on narrative, and "text adventures" that focus on puzzles. Due to their text-only nature, they sidestepped the problem of writing for widely divergent graphics architectures. This feature meant that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamon (video Game)
''Eamon'', sometimes known as ''The Wonderful World of Eamon'', is a game creation system and a role-playing adventure game series created by Donald Brown and released for the Apple II in 1980. The game is a text adventure similar to other early titles like ''Adventure'' (1976) or ''Zork'' (1980) and to later text-based multi-user dungeons (MUDs), though with many role-playing elements not available in other interactive fiction. ''Eamon'' software is non-commercial and is freely available in the public domain. Premise ''Eamon'' casts the player in the role of a free-wheeling fantasy adventurer who undertakes dangerous quests against numerous enemies to earn riches and experience. Home base is the Guild of Free Adventurers, an association of heroes on the mystical world of Eamon, a vaguely Medieval place awash in magic and populated with strange creatures. Most adventures take place in the dungeons, castles and forests of Eamon, though some occur on other worlds or in different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamon (computer Game)
''Eamon'', sometimes known as ''The Wonderful World of Eamon'', is a game creation system and a role-playing adventure game series created by Donald Brown and released for the Apple II in 1980. The game is a text adventure similar to other early titles like ''Adventure'' (1976) or ''Zork'' (1980) and to later text-based multi-user dungeons (MUDs), though with many role-playing elements not available in other interactive fiction. ''Eamon'' software is non-commercial and is freely available in the public domain. Premise ''Eamon'' casts the player in the role of a free-wheeling fantasy adventurer who undertakes dangerous quests against numerous enemies to earn riches and experience. Home base is the Guild of Free Adventurers, an association of heroes on the mystical world of Eamon, a vaguely Medieval place awash in magic and populated with strange creatures. Most adventures take place in the dungeons, castles and forests of Eamon, though some occur on other worlds or in different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Brown (programmer)
Donald M. Brown is a programmer and the creator of '' Eamon'', a long-running non-commercial role-playing game series for the Apple II computer first released in 1980. CE Software Brown was a founding partner of CE Software in West Des Moines, Iowa and created at least two games for the company: ''SwordThrust'', an expanded commercial version of ''Eamon'', and ''Wall Street'', a financial strategy game. Brown was later instrumental in the development of CE Software's '' QuicKeys'' macro recorder software and the '' QuickMail'' email client for the Macintosh. In the 1980s, Donald Brown produced the antivirus software Vaccine for the Macintosh. In addition, Donald Brown produced the Executive Decision Maker desk accessory A desk accessory (DA) in computing is a small transient or auxiliary application that can be run concurrently in a desktop environment with any other application on the system. Early examples, such as Sidekick and Macintosh desk accessories, used s ... and the Desk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR, Inc
TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Gygax had been unable to find a publisher for ''D&D'', a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish their products. Needing financing to bring their new game to market, Gygax and Kaye brought in Brian Blume in December as an equal partner. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is generally considered the first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and established the genre. When Kaye died suddenly in 1975, the Tactical Studies Rules partnership restructured into TSR Hobbies, Inc. and accepted investment from Blume's father Melvin. With the popular ''D&D'' as its main product, TSR Hobbies became a major force in the games industry by the late 1970s. Melvin Blume eventually transferred his shares to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Interactive Fiction
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Apple II-only Games
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Apple II Games
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1981 Video Games
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Casus Belli (magazine)
''Casus Belli'' is a French magazine about role-playing games, published in different formats since 1980. It contains news, reviews, interviews, features, and role-playing game materials. The magazine was published by Excelsior Publications until 1999, by Arkana Press in 2000–2006, and by Casus Belli Presse in 2010–2011, and has been published by Black Book Éditions since 2011. Since 2020, it also has the online video companion ''Casus TV'', which is produced in collaboration with ''Tric Trac''. History ''Casus Belli'' has been released in different forms since 1980, originally under editor-in-chief François Marcela-Froideval and published by Excelsior Publications; for its first few issues, it was a short, black-and-white publication, before changing to a larger format printed in color. In this incarnation, it became the leading role-playing game magazine on the French market. The artists working on this edition included the cartoonist Tignous. The magazine ended publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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