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- SHORT-DESCRIPTION:
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- Adventure Game Toolkit (or AGT) -- Version 1.5
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- Create and play your own text adventure games with this easy-to-use,
- award-winning package. AGT games can be big (200 locations, 100's of
- objects, people, creatures), sophisticated (500 or more word vocabulary,
- full-sentence parser), and very professional (numerous reviewers have
- likened AGT games to those from INFOCOM). Comes with several games
- (including Colossal Cave) and extensive documentation. 384K memory
- needed. ASP member.
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- KEYWORDS: ADVENTURE GAME TOOLKIT AGT TEXT ASP
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- OVERVIEW OF THE ADVENTURE GAME TOOLKIT:
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- The ADVENTURE GAME TOOLKIT (AGT) lets you design/write your own high-quality
- text adventure games. Once created, these adventure games can be shared with
- others -- even if they do not have a copy of the AGT themselves.
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- AGT has a number of features that make it a very comprehensive adventure game
- creation product. Some of these key features are:
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- * "Look and feel" of Infocom adventure games with similar screen layout
- and standard vocabulary and routines.
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- * Large standard vocabulary with potential to define many more words
- unique to your gam. Typical games can have a vocabulary of 500 words
- or more.
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- * Sophisticated parser that can understand (1) complex input commands
- including pronouns (IT, HIM, HER, THEM, MY and ITS), and (2) compound
- commands separated by AND or THEN or punctuation symbols, and (3)
- commands addressed to characters within the game. Here are a few
- examples of commands AGT can handle with ease:
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- GET THE FLASH LIGHT AND THEN SWITCH IT ON
- PUT ON THE CLOAK, THEN EXAMINE IT; READ ITS LABEL
- PLACE THE GREEN ROCK AND THE SMALL PEBBLE BEHIND THE TREE
- ENTER THE HOUSE; GET ALL; EXIT; SOUTH; SOUTH THEN DOWN
- SULU, SET A COURSE FOR ALPHA 14
- SCOTTY, BEAM DOWN A TRICORDER AND THE QWERTY MODULE
- DROP THE FOOD, THE KEY AND THE BOTTLE THEN UNLOCK THE DOOR WITH
- THE BRASS KEY AND THEN LEAVE
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- * Function and cursor keys predefined to input frequently used commands
- and move directions.
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- * SCRIPT and UNSCRIPT commands to echo game output to printer.
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- * Versions for IBM, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga. Games created on
- one of these computers can be played on all of the others without
- modifications to the game.
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- WHAT THE REVIEWERS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE ADVENTURE GAME TOOLKIT
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- "Using the Adventure Game Toolkit, anyone with an ounce of
- imagination can create a text adventure game ... similar in layout
- and sophistication to those made by Infocom and other commercial
- developers." -- Donald B. Trivette (PC Magazine)
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- "The Adventure Game Toolkit (AGT) acts as a compiler which allows
- for creating remarkably complex and sophisticated games in a fairly
- simple way .... AGT's parser reminds me of Infocom's." -- Scorpia
- (Computer Gaming World)
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- "If you have ever wondered what it is like to create your own
- adventure games, but didn't have the programming knowledge to do it,
- this product is for you .... The process is easy ... and you'll have
- hours of fun doing it." -- Resul DeMaria (Public Domain Software &
- Shareware)
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- "The Adventure Game Toolkit from Softworks ... provides all the
- tools you need to build your own text based adventure games .... The
- Adventure Game Toolkit is an extremely powerful development
- package." -- Bob Napp (Big Blue Disk)
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- Recently, the Adventure Game Toolkit was awarded the "Golden Chalice"
- Award by the Adventure And Strategy Club (of England).
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- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR AGT
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- IBM: The games created by the Adventure Game Toolkit requires a computer with
- at least 384K of memory, MS-DOS 2.1, and at least one disk drive. It is
- possible to use any kind of monitor and AGT will automatically adjust its
- output to best suit the monitor.
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- TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ADVENTURE GAME TOOLKIT
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- This disk/ZIP file contains a complete, working, fully-functional "sampler" of
- what is available in the Shareware version of the "Classic" Edition of
- Adventure Game Toolkit (AGT). In addition to the Classic Edition, Softworks
- has just released a follow-on product, the "Master's" Edition of AGT.
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- If you order these products from Softworks, you will get a number of
- additional "goodies" which are described in the file README.TOO. See the file
- ORDERFRM.AGT for details on how to order. For a more comprehensive overview
- of AGT, see the file AGTBLURB.TXT.
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