Adventure Games with Revolution?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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Hmm... what kind of "low-level" features are you looking for, more 
specifically?

Just paste (or draw) each picture onto a card, and put a transparent, 
don't-show-name button over each hotspot.  on mouseUp go to card 
<whatever> end mouseUp.  Done.

Maybe some mouseEnter-type handlers for fancy navigation cursors, and 
possibly some resize logic so that the game can be played full-screen.

As for saved games, just save the name of the card or some such, along 
with any inventory you might be keeping (remember that there was really 
very little in the way of game state in Myst, but of course it would be 
possible to do extensive tracking of game state in Rev if you really 
wanted to.)

Myst is actually a *very* simple game from the perspective of the 
engine (the later follow-ups to Myst have become slightly more 
complex); what really sets it off is the artistry and the puzzles that 
were used (none of which would be difficult at all to do in Rev).


On Dec 24, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote:

>>  Roger Kenyon <edutec at sympatico.ca> asks:
>>
>>  I can find no dedicated Mac OS X game engine for point-and-click 
>> adventure
>> games in the spirit of Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Sam & Max.
>>
>> Do you know of any point-and-click adventure games made with 
>> Revolution?
>> General multimedia tools don't take care of the low-level game 
>> management
>> and there are few or no adventure games templates. Revolution has 
>> potential,
>> but I would really like a template.
>>
>> Would anybody be open to making a Revolution point-and-click 
>> adventure game
>> to guide others?
>
> My 8th grade students make adventure games in Rev every quarter.  I 
> don't
> actually know that much about gaming, so I'm not sure what a template
> would provide for you that you couldn't program yourself.
>
> To get them started I show them Spelunx. Yes, I know it's really old
> and lame and much better adventure games exist, but (1) it was made 
> with
> HyperCard, which impresses the kids, as they know it's a precurser to
> Rev, and (2) we own it.  That gets the the students thinking about the
> kinds of things they can do themselves, and off they go!
>
> We don't have a copy of Myst, or I'd show 'em that too.  Or maybe I
> wouldn't -- it might intimidate some of the students; Spelunx seems
> much more do-able.
>
> I also had one girl who, although 13 years old, knew about the original
> text-based adventure game, and re-created it in Rev.  It was really
> well done!  (She admitted that doing a text-based game was 
> underutilizing
> Rev's features, but she wanted to do it anyway.)
>
> So, what is a game template, and might one help my students?
>
>   - marty
>
> --
> Marty Billingsley
> The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

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