Shift838 Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I am getting ready to release new TOD games. Who would be interested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantStopClicking Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Sounds interesting to me! I haven't tried TOD in, uh, since probably 1987. -Dano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I'm game (no pun intended) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astharot Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Ready!! You want create classic fantasy rpg or have another idea in mind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OX. Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Yes please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Sequel to the K-mart levels... Sears by chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 I have created various ones. Such as set in medieval times, zombies of course and future past scenarios. Total of 9 games at this point. Getting ready to try my hand at text adventures for the Adventure Cart and XB with my own adventure interpreter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I'd like to check them out. By 'release', you mean you would be trying to sell them? Ones dealing with the past sound most-interesting to me (and if there's anything with a time-travel scenario). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Text adventures are pretty easy once you generate a map and your rules. They obviously have tons of data, which can be quite constraining in ~16k. An interesting idea, especially with leveraging a compiler would be to have the interpreter automagically handle abbreviations for example, every time it saw a "t" as a word, it would replace it with "the". Could be smart, too, to automatically handle "t" as "the" and "T" as "The". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 i'm thinking about selling them, each would have 3 games per disk. Delivery can be emailed disk image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 The Adventure Editor is pretty cool, but you run out of memory fast unless you keep your expectations scaled down... You only have around 12k of data space for the adventure. It's not easy to crunch the numbers, but the old Scott Adams adventures consumed 70-80% of it by way of comparison. So figure around 20-30 rooms, maybe 100 objects, 100 verbs/nouns, etc. One of the later Asgard text adventures, Castle Darkholm, was disappointing because they had VERY long and grandiose location names and messages. Which made the adventure very short and simplistic. Conversely, you have a complex and nuanced adventure like Knight Ironheart, which I STILL haven't figured out how to win after 28 years... Even studying the code in the editor didn't help. Adamantyr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 i remember Knight Ironheart, it took me a couple of months to solve! I have not seen that game in a while.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djb Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I'm in too...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 9, 2013 Author Share Posted March 9, 2013 I will post again when they are ready.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 bump... I'm in for a disk or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 How about a CD-ROM or tape release? Not all of us have floppy disk capability on our TI's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 How about a CD-ROM or tape release? Not all of us have floppy disk capability on our TI's. Or better yet, an Internet release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 (Re)found this: http://www.dreamcodex.com/todr.php Note there are some games... And toolkits. Also - found this board game as well which may have some similar appeal: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Yea, I've got his whole ToD/ToDR suite on my laptop... It's fantastic stuff--- a brilliant guy, that one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 Delivery will most likely be disk images and maybe wav files to convert to cassete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Here's the TOD dsk image from the TI Gameshelf site. It includes 9 different adventures, including Star Trek, Assault the City, Tomb of Death and Space Mine. Tod.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Thanks Vorticon. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxpressed Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Here's the TOD dsk image from the TI Gameshelf site. It includes 9 different adventures, including Star Trek, Assault the City, Tomb of Death and Space Mine. Thank you. For some reason, I can't DL directly from the TI Gameshelf site. I'm still having problems getting this to load. I'm guessing that I do not need the ToD cartridge (I do have it)? With the XB cartridge in, here's what happens to me: 1. Press 1 for TI Basic 2. CALL MOUNT (1,2) -- TOD.DSK is in Volume 2 3. QUIT to return to title screen 4. Press 2 for Extended Basic 5. GPL screen, Press 1 for Tunnels of Doom 6. New menu screen with 3 options: 1 for TI Basic, 2 for Extended Basic, 3 for Tunnels of Doom (I press 3) 7. Tunnels of Doom title screen 8. Load data from 1 Cassette, 2 Disk 1, 3 Other (I press 2) 9. Asks for filename. I enter TOD.DSK 10. I get File Error 7, "Working" comes on the screen, and the border changes color. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Thank you. For some reason, I can't DL directly from the TI Gameshelf site. I'm still having problems getting this to load. I'm guessing that I do not need the ToD cartridge (I do have it)? With the XB cartridge in, here's what happens to me: 1. Press 1 for TI Basic 2. CALL MOUNT (1,2) -- TOD.DSK is in Volume 2 3. QUIT to return to title screen 4. Press 2 for Extended Basic 5. GPL screen, Press 1 for Tunnels of Doom 6. New menu screen with 3 options: 1 for TI Basic, 2 for Extended Basic, 3 for Tunnels of Doom (I press 3) 7. Tunnels of Doom title screen 8. Load data from 1 Cassette, 2 Disk 1, 3 Other (I press 2) 9. Asks for filename. I enter TOD.DSK 10. I get File Error 7, "Working" comes on the screen, and the border changes color. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any advice. How about "DSK1.TOD"? ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxpressed Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 How about "DSK1.TOD"? ...lee Thanks, but I get the same error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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