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From: norteman@gemvax.enet.dec.com (Karen J. Norteman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: What is World Builder?
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Date: 4 Jun 90 15:40:47 GMT
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In article <509@cvbnetPrime.COM>, aperez@caribe.prime.com (Arturo Perez x6739) writes...
>There's this thing called World Builder.  Does anyone out there know what it
>is?
> 
>Arturo Perez

World Builder is a Silicon Beach software product that you can use as a tool 
to build your own adventure games; it's said to have a BASIC-like language.  It
also has a "library" of digitized sounds that you can insert into the games at
certain points, like sword clangs, roars, and sounds of monsters dying.

I believe that some pretty well-known games (such as "Vampire Castle") were
constructed with World Builder.  This is just an opinion: I found the interface
unfriendly, the parser a bit dim, and the games built with it run S-L-O-W-L-Y.
Try it yourself, but I tend to avoid games built with World Builder.

Karen J. Norteman
Digital Equipment Corporation
Maynard, MA
norteman@gemvax.enet.dec.com