Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010
By Peter Bright Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction text adventure with its arcane commands and exploration with the free-form, open-ended gaming pioneered by the likes of SimCity. There are two major modes to the game, a textual spell-casting game, and a more complex interactive puzzle mode. Play starts with the spell game. The game has three difficulty modes. In the two easiest modes Visual Studio questers must cast spells to appease a malevolent gatekeeper known only as "the compiler," combining the text adventuring of Zork with the wizardy and magic of Loom. If the player's spell contains even a single faulty incantation, the compiler will respond with a torrent of abuse and spells of its own; the player must piece together clues contained within compiler's response to determine how they went wrong. In the hardest mode, a second gatekeeper, the even more cantankerous "linker," must also be satisfied. In this mode, even more complex magic is required. The player must mix multiple, interrelated spells and potions, ensuring they operate in perfect concert to persuade both compiler and linker to allow them to pass. Full article: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft%2dpimps%2dit%2dold%2dschool%2dwith%2da%2dpricey%2dtext%2dadventure%2dgame.ars Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
