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Adventure Story Game for iPod Released

Posted by pudge on from the sneak-one-more-in-just-for-fun dept.

XO Play writes "XO Play today released an adventure story game for the iPod called 'The Rise Of The Lost,' puts you in the role of Sir Jacob Zaviour. Your mission is to travel through lands and fight the evil Wizard Sazque. As you read through the adventure you will be asked to choose your destiny by selecting from a number of options found at the bottom of the page, similar to the 'choose-your-own-adventure' series. The game costs $9.99 is played via the Notes section of your iPod." It wouldn't take too much to write a generator for such games, as Notes uses small text files with HTML tags for links, as long as you had the data to do it with.

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  1. Ever Since I Read This, All I Can Think Of... by TheWanderingHermit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that I've seen this, over and over in my head I keep hearing the same line:

    "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."

    1. Re:Ever Since I Read This, All I Can Think Of... by CeramicNuts · · Score: 5, Funny

      Turn to page 42

  2. Re:I can't play Doom on my iPOD? by p4ul13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Besides; the iPod has solitaire, which is arguably the only game anybody will ever need.

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  3. I need an iPod now by DavidLeblond · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can finally catch that damn Wumpus on the go!!!

  4. Re:But how do you quit? by Triv · · Score: 3, Funny

    here was a text-based game format called SPAM (just try and google that now.)

    I love a good google challenge

    *grin*

    Triv

  5. Re:I can't play Doom on my iPOD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I agree...but more importantly, why would you pay 9.99 for a new text game, when you could go and probably find one of those old text games (hhgttg!) and convert them?

    I agree. And why would anybody buy new music when they can just listen to music that's already around? And why go to see new movies when there are plenty that have already been made? And don't get me started about books...

  6. Re:I can't play Doom on my iPOD? by kimota · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Just because you can't get 85 FPS doesn't mean there is no entertainment value. If you'll recall, the Mona Lisa, which is only ONE FRAME, has been going strong for quite a while now.

    And while it might only be one frame, the resolution is *bitchin'*!

    --Kimota!

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  7. Two words... by bennomatic · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Hello Sailor!"

    I spent two weeks locked in a dark room with Zork III. Worse than crack, those old Infocom games. Too bad that, without a keyboard, you really couldn't replicate the gameplay of those on an iPod.

    Anyone interested in developing same for the Handspring Treo 600?

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