1995,March,10th

Ulrich Krinzner
Potsdam, Germany
email to:
CIS: 100414,661
via Internet: 100414,661@compuserve.com

OPLGAME.ZIP ... contains:

README.TXT     this file
OPLGAME1.OPL   OPL source code
GAMEPRO3.WRI   about an idea ...

GAMEPRO3.WRI tells you a story. Your ideas and help are requested.

The idea is: many people work together on an OPL program to take it to a higher level (better quality, short code). The yield is experience, fun, and last but not least a nice little freeware game.

OPLGAME1.OPL is the complete OPL code (for S3A) of a very simple game. It is a little bit silly, but it is thought to be a basis for improving it, regarding nearly everything: basic ideas, sentences, number of roomes, layout, graphics and so on.

How it works:

Basic room number arrangement:

                         30

     20   21   22   23   24

     14   15   16   17   

07   08   09   10   11   12

01   02   03   04   05   06

If all conditions fit well, you can reach the rooms by using the arrow keys. Which ways you are able to walk is shown by a wind rose. You start at room two. You can TAKE, USE, READ and OPEN things by using the first letter key. You don't need to tell which thing is meant; the system is too simple - the *parser* wouldn't understand this. A counter tells you, if it was well done or (maybe) had no effect. *i* is for information about things you have TAKEN already, *v* stands for the informations you can get about the changing of the  variables. 

Complete solution (you might play it at first without reading):

Go west,go north, TAKE(lantern), go south, go east, go north, USE(lantern), READ(signs), go east, go east, go south, OPEN(box), TAKE(ruby), go west, USE(button), go east, go east, TAKE(plaid), TAKE(key), go south, go west, USE(button), go east, go north, go west, go west, go north, TAKE(rope), go west, go north, go west, USE(rope), go south(=down), TAKE(saphire), go north(=up), go east, go south, go east, go south, go east, go north, go north(=up), go east, USE(key), go north, USE(ruby), USE(saphire), find the way back to start position(room 2).

Now feel free to change the program. Before uploading the changed program give me a short notice in section 18/general/OPL game workshop. I would coordinate the names of the new programs, so that no one does delete randomly another ones file by using same name. If possible use ZIP-compressing or better just plain OPL text.

Best regards

Ulrich