You will always be in the right spot to enter text. ----- Original Message ----- From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:34 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games.
> Thanks! I haven't played a text adventure since the early nineties, so > I'm > a little rusty, and back then I could see where the cursor was on the > screen > so I knew I was in the right place to type commands. > > So the things like "examine tree" and "feel" tree you would type in to > move > the game along? In the winfrotz games, how do you know that your cursor's > in the right place to type them in or does it put you there automatically? > That was what kind of confused me. I'm used to Jaws telling you when > you're > in an edit field, so I wasn't sure. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brandon Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:00 PM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. > > >> Welcome to the world of text adventures. >> Dence Forest >> You are standing in an overgrown wood. The trees around you are thick, >> and >> branches hang low on all sides. From here, it is unclear which way you >> should go, as you seem to be surrounded by nothing but woods. >> Furthermore, >> you seem to have no recollection of how you got here. >> Dence Forest score 0, moves 0 >> examine trees >> The trees are all quite large and mostly covered in brightly-colored >> leaves, >> making you believe that fall is either here, or fast approaching. >> Strangely >> enough, you notice that one of the trees near you is sectioned off. The >> branches seem to be evenly spaced apart, as if the tree were made for >> easy >> climbing. >> Dence Forest score 0, moves 1 >> feel tree >> You put a hand on the tree, and it feels cool. Almost metallic. You tap >> it >> a >> few times, and there is a dull ringing, as if the tree is hollow. Clearly >> this is no work of nature. This is getting stranger by the moment. >> Your score has just gone up by one point. >> Dence Forest score 1, moves 2 >> >> I hope this example of a text adventure will give you a better idea of >> how >> they work. Actually, it was kind of fun writing that. Haha. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:41 AM >> Subject: audyssey: Need help with winfrotz games. >> >> >>> Hi! I greatly fear looking like an idiot, but I just downloaded the >>> talking winfrotz interpreter and the game-pack that goes with it and I >>> seem to need some help. They work fine as far as going through the list >>> and selecting a game. But, um how do I actually play the games? Are >>> there help files out there or can somebody give me some direction? >>> Like, >>> once the speech finishes reading me the scene, do I just type what I >>> want >>> to do, and how do I figure out what that should be, or do I need to use >>> hot-keys, and if so, how do I find out what they are? >>> >>> Thanks. Any help would be appreciated. >>> >>> Please excuse my total ignorance! >>> >>> >>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>> >>> >>> >>> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: >>> 1/20/2006 >>> >>> >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
