ANNOUNCING: A new Game that is Not part of the Annual Competition!
markm
Eight thousand, three hundred, and seventy-nine hand-typed words...
Forty-one lovingly-designed things...
Ten average-length years in the making...
Eight carefully-crafted rooms...
Written in Inform 7...
Translated into an intermediate description which can be run through
Inform 6 to complete compilation...
Beta-tested by four friends... and one wife...
(cue dire music)
In a world... where magic has yet to be born...
At a time... when the world was a simpler place...
In a land... where ellipses were beloved by all...
Comes the sequel to one of the best-reviewed games ever to be the
first released game of the year 2000:
(cue majestic music)
"A Simple Theft 2: A Simple Theftier"
(cue voiceover music)
The desire to discover magic is powerful. The man you're apprenticed
to is forcing you to act as a thief, and he has sent you into the
heart of a fortress to obtain something special. Something he needs.
Something he will use to unlock the secrets of power.
How much will he share with you of that power? Well, none at all, but
that's not the point. The point is that you need to go get whatever
it is.
This game is too dangerous for my personal website! And too
controversial for the Interactive Fiction Archive! And too big for
the debug version to fit in a z5 file! (although the release version
is not too big for that, go figure).
And yet, despite all that, you NEED to play "A Simple Theft 2"! You
know you do!
But how?!
The *World Premier Exclusive Release* of "A Simple Theft 2" will be on
Jason Scott's "Get Lamp" documentary's Bonus DVD somewhere I'm sure!
Look for it an an internet near you! Make sure you've upgraded all
your brain's drivers, or this will Fry your Mind!
Order today! You'll get to play the version that has one minor bug
that I fixed after I sent it to Jason! And then I'll figure out how
to make it less dangerous and put it up on my website or whatever.
That number again is http://www.getlamp.com/
But wait, there's more!
Don't ask how we did it. Don't delve too deeply into the mysteries.
But thanks to the tireless efforts of at least one person, Jason is
including, in the *Same Directory* as the sequel, the remastered re-
release of the original game that took the world by storm ten years
ago! That's right "A Simple Theft", a TADS game, will be on the same
Bonus DVD! Beta-tested by at least one of the same people who beta-
tested the sequel! Possibly more!
NOW how much would you pay? Find out, when you order both games at
http://www.getlamp.com/ and get the Get Lamp documentary thrown in for
free!
dott.Piergiorgio
> Eight thousand, three hundred, and seventy-nine hand-typed words...
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Well, I'm no expert in marketing, but I suspect that your over zealous
efforts in creating hype has overshadowed what is hyped.... I still
don't have get if "A simple theft" is a single product or is a component
of your DVD on IF....
For the rest, the site is excellent, you should concentrate more on web
design than marketing ;)
Best regards from Italy, and "Affari d' Oro !"
Dott. Piergiorgio.
Jerome West
> markm ha scritto:
>> Eight thousand, three hundred, and seventy-nine hand-typed words...
>
> efforts in creating hype has overshadowed what is hyped....
I suspect Mark's attempts at humour haven't survived the language
barrier too well. :)
> I still don't have get if "A simple theft" is a single product or is a
> component of your DVD on IF....
A Simple Theft was released in 2000 and is presumably available from the
archive. A Simple Theft 2 (the sequel) is (for the moment at least) only
available with the DVD of Get Lamp, a documentary about interactive fiction.
Edwin
dott.Piergiorgio
>> Well, I'm no expert in marketing, but I suspect that your over zealous
>> efforts in creating hype has overshadowed what is hyped....
>
> I suspect Mark's attempts at humour haven't survived the language
> barrier too well. :)
beh, is the "attempts at humour" whose murk the understanding of the
post re. the subject (that is, /a simple theft 2/ ) language barrier or
not (I'm much more capable in reading english than (actually) writing,
thanks to, well, text adventures & IFs:D)
Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.
namekuseijin
> NOW how much would you pay? Find out, when you order both games athttp://www.getlamp.com/and get the Get Lamp documentary thrown in for
> free!
nice humor. I'm looking forward for Get Lamp and if that also means a
(possibly polished) new game for free, I'm all for it. :)
chipschap
> NOW how much would you pay? Find out, when you order both games athttp://www.getlamp.com/and get the Get Lamp documentary thrown in for
> free!
Well, it's a certainty that I wouldn't pay $45, which is your asking
price including shipping in North America.