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"The first two
Quest for Glory games enjoyed the doubled-up input options of
a text parser as well as a rudimentary point-and-click interface. You could
right-click on a tree or a moose head to examine it, and sometimes be rewarded
with a paragraph of pun-soaked description. But you could also reach over to
your keyboard and start typing CLIMB TREE or GET MOOSE.
Some things could only be handled via text, like conversation. Shortcut keys
made this less agonizing to use than it sounds. Ctrl-A was "ask about" so if
you wanted to ask a centaur farmer about brigand attacks in the region you'd
type "Ctrl-A brigands" and they'd tell you what they knew. Ctrl-T was "tell
about", but people rarely cared what you told them. Most conversational
progress was made by asking. There's probably a lesson there.
The
Quest for Glory games were originated by the wife-and-husband duo of Lori
and Corey Cole between 1989 and 1998, who returned to videogames in 2018 with
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, followed by the
Summer Daze visual novels, all
funded via Kickstarter. Over the years they've been part of so many innovations
in the way games are made and played, I feel like all I need to do is hit
Ctrl-A and type "CD-ROM replacing floppy disk" or "transition from dungeon
crawls to narrative RPGs" to get a chapter of history out of them."
I’m one of the proud Kickstarter backers and also follow the Coles on Patreon.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
