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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. get creative, and also technical docs by morcheeba · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You could creatively overcome these limitations...
    - To generate "random" numbers, you could have 10 "links" to each page spaced closely together - (for example every letter of the words "go north" leads to a different outcome). The user would pick one. This is defeatable, of course, but if the result is delayed a bit (you die in the room after the next), it would be hard to track. The links could also be shuffled every time you resync.

    - you can encode inventory with lots of copies of each page. For example, file "Room001-0010" means you have object 2, while "Room001-0110" means you've got objects 2 and 4 (couting in binary here). Sure, it's wasteful, but if you've got 40 freakin' gigs, it's possible. Also, different stages of the game could use different objects, and you could have the user trade them in when they reach a certain stage. Once you've killed the dragon, your sword gets stuck in his gut.

    Just give it time, and someone will write a script to port Zork ;-)

    Get the whole tech specs for the notes format here. You can link to music, so this adventure could be quite entertaining.

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  2. Re:Ever Since I Read This, All I Can Think Of... by Benley · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're not the first person to think that. At MacHack last year, one of the Apple guys on the iPod development team actually implemented that for the notes reader (I can't remember the guy's name, sadly. He was the guy who wrote the notes reader app)