Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer

aka: Aftermath of the Asimovian Disaster, Chateau Gaillard, The Citadel of Pershu, Werewolves and Wanderer

Moby ID: 182068

Released

August 1984 on DOS

Credits

8 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Ballantine Books

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Adventure
Compilation
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay: Interactive fiction / text adventure
RPG elements
Interface: Text parser

Description

Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer is a book containing a series of type-in adventure games for multiple systems designed to teach the programmer how to make adventure games in BASIC.

Contains the following games:

Aftermath of the Asimovian Disaster

Chateau Gaillard

The Citadel of Pershu

Werewolves and Wanderer

Screenshots

Credits (TRS-80 CoCo version)

8 People

Copyright Ⓒ 1983, 1984 by	Tim Hartnell
-	All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions Published in the United States by Ballantine Books; a division of Random House Inc. New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited; Toronto
Designed by	Gene Siegel
Cover Illustration by	Darrell K. Sweet
Cover Design by	Andrew Newman
Manufactured in	the United States of America

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MobyGames ID: 182068

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Game added by hoeksmas.

Additional contributors: Patrick Bregger.

Game added June 7, 2022. Last modified May 24, 2024.