Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

[Alex Rice]

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 03:06  AM, peter9.smith at ps.ge.com wrote:

> I'd like to take digital pictures and movies of say my house then 
> create a
> poor man's Myst style 'game' which I can send to friends.  Revolution 
> seems
> like a good contender to do this in as it's reasonably priced and
> cross-platform.
>
> Any comments on how suitable Revolution is for creating something a 
> step or
> two up from slideshows in DVD format?

Perfectly suitable- the cards and stacks concept that Rev uses is just 
the ticket.

> How far does Revolution support Quicktime?  Say for things like 
> transitions?

Good- a quicktime player object is embedded, and transitions can be 
applied between cards and stacks- to any content, not just the player 
object.

> How possible is it for a program to generate Revolution code as 
> opposed to
> typing it in?

See the commands do, eval and value. Transcript is totally dynamic and 
you can generate code on the fly.

I remember reading that somewhere Myst itself began it's life as a 
hypercard stack.

Good luck!

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com