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Sourcecode: http://jerniwerks.angelfire.com/mia.rar
This is a shockwave program for doing multiplayer text based games. People often compare books to movies, and I feel the same way about adventure games; that no state-of-the-art graphics will ever compare to the feeling your imagination can produce. You can be shown an octopus with nunchucks, but when you're not shown, you imagine so much more.
Unfortunately, not many people code for shockwave anymore, which is a shame. The software, Director, is great, and you can publish both as an executable or in the shockwaves format. Flash is to Illustrator as Shockwave is to Photoshop, plain and simple. The problem is that shockwave doesn't come preinstalled in browsers, which looses a big audience, and also that the peer to peer connectivity doesn't account for our routers...pretty lame. It might be a conspiracy.
But for anyone who does play with Director and produce shockwave content, you can use this engine to either create your own text games, or adapt this into a more graphical something, making use of the object oriented architecture. It comes with a few example rooms, weapons, armor, races, monsters, etc that you can duplicate and expand upon. Zlib license information. Don't worry about the few included images, such as the monty-python-like clouds that were done with the paint tool in Photoshop. You could do much better.
If you are adventurous I'm also needing beta testing for the game I've been working on.
Maia - Revenge of the End of the Line.
Explore, and hopefully stop the end of the world, which will destroy your game after a few hours (although you can play over again and continue the same character). There is an executable version to download, or you can play on the web by going through an animated loader program in shockwave. My apology about the free hosting. Please don't mind the advertising.
Download: http://jerniwerks.angelfire.com/maia.rar
Browser: http://jerniwerks.angelfire.com/arcade.html
I've tested it to death recently and fixed several bugs. I'm interested to know the balance for someone who's never played, or any way to cheat in leveling up, if you have any suggestions or get bored someplace, etc. Let me know what you think.
Thanks for sharing, enjoy the day, and cheers.