Quicksand - a new adventure game for RISC OS computers
VinceH
Soft Rock Software and Vince M Hudd, in association with a glass of
lemonade and a ham roll, are pleased to announce the release of
Quicksand* for RISC OS computers.
Quicksand* is a new adventure game, written using Soft Rock's own
adventure writing system, Trellis. Very loosely based on a broadly
similar idea to the notion that it in some way might remind you of
the excellent TV series News at Ten... oh no, sorry, that's wrong...
I meant Life on Mars, the game stars you in the role of Stan Tyler.
You were in the park with your son, Timmy, flying a kite which got
stuck in a tree. Being the intrepid, heroic dad, you climbed the tree
to retrieve the kite, but fell...
...and woke up looking like a 1970s throwback, and in an adventure
game! Are you mad? In a coma? Or have you really been transformed
into binary data?
Whatever's happened, maybe if you can play the game, you can find
your way home!
Having been written from scratch in the space of about two months,
the first working version of Quicksand* was demonstrated at the
Wakefield show. Since then another few months have passed and lots of
effort has been put into finding new and ingenious ways to say "I
haven't had the time", "I've been too busy" and "Ooh, is that a
chocolate sponge pudding?" (closely followed by "yummy!")
Now, however, the time has come to make the game available, so the
past 20 minutes has been spent feverishly changing images here,
modifying text there and generally making sure it all works. This was
followed by a last minute change to the way it determines if it's
running as a text only game, so now probably doesn't any more - but
given that the game is so stunningly simple to play, half the fun
must be in playing it to find out if it no longer works! Yay!
Quicksand* can be downloaded from:
http://www.softrock.co.uk/products/quicksand.html
There are two files, as follows:
qsand.zip contains the game, which runs in old style MODE 15, is text
only, and should work on all machines running RISC OS 3.1 or higher.
qsandg.zip contains the graphics. Copy the contents of that zip over
your installed copy of the game, and as if by magic the game knows
that it needs to run in an 800 x 600 x 16 million colour screen mode
(1MB of VRAM and SpriteExtend 0.99 or higher required).
You will also need the latest version of SRSLibrary (v0.17) which can
be found at http://www.softrock.co.uk/resources/srslib.html
* The small print: There is no quicksand to be found in this game.
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