I recall from my childhood a series of articles in a Sinclair Spectrum magazine giving you tips on programming adventure games in the Professional Adventure Writer (or maybe Quill).
Tips such as how to create somewhat intelligent NPCs which would follow you around, for example.
I cannot remember which magazine these articles appeared in. I've looked through some online scans, but I can't find them.
Does anyone have evidence of these articles and where they appeared? Really beginning to think I imagined it all!
Thanks in advance,
Neil
Magazine articles - tips for P.A.W.?
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Re: Magazine articles - tips for P.A.W.?
Towards the bottom of the World of Spectrum entry for P.A.W. it states that Sinclair User published a few articles on playing and writing adventure games, are these the articles you are looking for?
Unfortunately the links at WoS are dead, but after a quick search I found an online site that appears to be the new address for one of the aforementioned dead links.
Unfortunately the links at WoS are dead, but after a quick search I found an online site that appears to be the new address for one of the aforementioned dead links.
Re: Magazine articles - tips for P.A.W.?
No, it's not them. This was a black & white series of articles. I have found evidence of articles involving Mark Cantrell from 'Your Sinclair' in Sep/Oct 1991. Looks like these are the articles. But I have yet to find them all.
EDIT: Looks like it's from Mike Gerrard's 'YS Adventures' articles. I seem to have pretty much answered my own question.
EDIT: Looks like it's from Mike Gerrard's 'YS Adventures' articles. I seem to have pretty much answered my own question.
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Re: Magazine articles - tips for P.A.W.?
https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-magazine seems to be a good place to get scans.
Re: Magazine articles - tips for P.A.W.?
You can also try the mirror of the World of Spectrum magazine scans here:
https://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/magazines/
https://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/magazines/
Re: Magazine articles - tips for P.A.W.?
An old thread, I know, but Mark Cantrell (who wrote the YS articles referenced above) went on to create his own booklet containing PAW tips and tricks which can be viewed on the following pages...
http://www.8bitag.com/archive/process-one.html
http://www.8bitag.com/archive/process-one.html