tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post2132579800087867867..comments2024-03-29T05:52:53.051+11:00Comments on The Adventurers Guild: Game 1: Below the Root - Won!The Tricksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-55578701150544892192015-06-24T12:36:23.178+10:002015-06-24T12:36:23.178+10:00There's an answer to this riddle? (Haven't...There's an answer to this riddle? (Haven't played the game, but the only riddle I remember from Alice in Wonderland is the one about the raven and the writing desk, which explicitly has no answer.)DialMforMarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991827182885226471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-1782890181404216992015-06-24T12:34:41.578+10:002015-06-24T12:34:41.578+10:00Now I really want to read the books. Maybe the con...Now I really want to read the books. Maybe the controversial ending involved trapping Raamo on that ledge. (I hope it's not as big a letdown as the end of Animorphs was.)DialMforMarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991827182885226471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-71981195898242599102013-12-19T06:04:31.058+11:002013-12-19T06:04:31.058+11:00Nice job. Interesting that the game ended so abrup...Nice job. Interesting that the game ended so abruptly. But I find that's often an issue of adventure games. Whether due to technical limitations of disk space, or running out of steam, it seems the early parts take out a disproportionately large part.Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05873440251698488032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-33693583765007339782012-03-15T16:48:45.982+11:002012-03-15T16:48:45.982+11:00Check out the virtual apple page if you're cur...Check out the virtual apple page if you're curious.cavalier973https://www.blogger.com/profile/16018249706585207161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-62420021728959056352012-03-15T11:06:21.458+11:002012-03-15T11:06:21.458+11:00Thanks Zenic, and no problem Trickster. :-D
I neve...Thanks Zenic, and no problem Trickster. :-D<br />I never played these games, and I only came to know about them thanks to Home of the Underdogs (and the glowing praise Sarinee bestowed on BtR).<br /><br />I had actually thought of asking you about Windham's Alice and forgot - that is before learning that it hadn't been released for the PC.<br /><br />Have a nice day at work - we here in South America are soon going to bed...Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860506019349657883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-19142465847383309742012-03-15T10:54:37.465+11:002012-03-15T10:54:37.465+11:00Aaaahhh my bad! Sorry Charles. That's what hap...Aaaahhh my bad! Sorry Charles. That's what happens when you sneak a few responses to comments on your blog while you're in the office.The Tricksterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-84435517656254230922012-03-15T09:49:03.492+11:002012-03-15T09:49:03.492+11:00Ah I see Charles. My mistake. I had looked for &qu...Ah I see Charles. My mistake. I had looked for "Alice in Wonderland Adventure game for DOS," and that was the only game that came up.<br /><br />Trickster, while I enjoy being right, I made no such affirmation as I had the wrong game. Charles was the one that suggested no DOS release.Zenic Reveriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441583549326102945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-79394245089288969732012-03-15T09:01:29.071+11:002012-03-15T09:01:29.071+11:00Wow, I had no idea that Dale created another game ...Wow, I had no idea that Dale created another game using the same engine. Just looking at the screenshots makes me want to play it! Wonderland is a perfect environment for Below the Root style gameplay.<br /><br />Zenic is right though...the game was only ever released for C64 and Apple II.The Tricksterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-71272569505720832462012-03-15T04:35:02.377+11:002012-03-15T04:35:02.377+11:00Zenic, I think greymerryfaire was referring to thi...Zenic, I think greymerryfaire was referring to this Alice game:<br />http://www.mobygames.com/game/alice-in-wonderland<br /><br />As for why Trickster didn't play it, it looks as if it wasn't released for DOS...Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860506019349657883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-4570731394332812752012-03-15T03:23:05.887+11:002012-03-15T03:23:05.887+11:00That game looks pretty interesting, although it...That game looks pretty interesting, although it's text based. Even though it shows graphical icons for the inventory, and a display for each area, the input appears to be entirely through text. A couple links to make Trickster's life a little easier:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_%28adventure_game%29<br />http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/wonderland/screenshotsZenic Reveriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441583549326102945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-41871963768980293782012-03-14T17:22:54.699+11:002012-03-14T17:22:54.699+11:00ZK Snyder authored "weirdness books". T...ZK Snyder authored "weirdness books". The plots of most of the ones I read centered around the question of whether actual magic was involved, or if it was just the characters' imaginations.<br /><br />Black and Blue Magic was one of my favorites; it had actual magic. The son of a stage magician (who had no interest or talent in doing magic tricks himself) gets a visit from a bottle of magic potion that makes him grow wings. He flies around the city at night, but I can't remember exactly what scrapes he gets into.<br /><br />The Library had only the first two of the "Green Sky" books, so it was years later that I was able to find and read "Until the Celebration". It was a bit of a let-down, but I never made the connection that the game was supposed to be a "fourth" part of the story. Actually, "Below the Root" and "And All Between" told basically the same story, but from different perspectives, as I recall; one told the story from the Kindar point of view, the other from the Erdling's POV.<br /><br />"The Egypt Game" was about a group of kids who find some Egyptian artifacts or props or something in a neighbor's garage, and start pretending to be priests and priestesses of Osiris and Isis (or something like that), when weird things start to happen.<br /><br />"The Great Stanley Kidnapping Case" is about a disfunctional Brady-bunch type family that gets kidnapped, and winds up being a real headache to the kidnappers. "The Headless Cupid" and "Blair's Nightmare" are sequals.<br /><br />The point of my rambling is that playing video games was actually a gateway to some nice reading material, for me.<br /><br />On another note, did you or will you play the "Alice in Wonderland" game by Wyndham Classics? It's much funnier, and the puzzles will drive you insane, but it has a more satisfying feel to it. It was years before I could figure out this riddle:<br /><br />"What is pleased and not pleased?<br />What contains it all, and yet contains nothing?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-1453822127368551952012-01-28T17:43:51.053+11:002012-01-28T17:43:51.053+11:00....I thought the whole point of the game was to *.......I thought the whole point of the game was to *fix* the weak ending of the original books? Opps.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-60735677232283440662011-12-17T17:26:48.856+11:002011-12-17T17:26:48.856+11:00Sorry it's been so long since I checked in. I&...Sorry it's been so long since I checked in. I'm catching up now. Congratulations on winning your first. I always find games based on books to be particularly difficult because they don't have their own internal logic.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.com