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From: sapg0386@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: What is World Builder?
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Date: 5 Jun 90 04:16:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sapg0386    Jun  4 23:16:00 1990


It stinks.  I bought it, but all you get is a little help writting an 
adventure game of the sort where you tell your pupet to move north
south east or west.  The library of sounds is a handful of of buzzes, clanks,
and clangs that you can't even bear to hear the first time.  The language is
totally brain damaged (there is no if-then-else, just if-then).

As for being useful for the purpose it is sold--bah.  Use hypercard 
instead!!!  You have to set up the card to card links yourself in 
hypercard, but being free of the rigid NSEW setup is an advantage!
Likewise, you have to keep track of the location of artifacts using 
global variables--but the freedom is worth it.
It every other aspect world-builder vs hypercard is like a rusted out
1932 Yugo versus a new top of the line Porshe.
With World-Builder you can only write one kind of hackneyed already
over-marketed adventure.  Your screens will look like trash.  The
interface will stink abysmally.

Hypercard has backgrounds  where as WB only has card specific data this means
that WB uses your memory up like a gas guzzler, every picture uses a bundle
of memory.  WB has a handful of pathetic clank sounds.  With hypercard you
can be as sophisticated as you want using xcmds.  At the very least you
can install Macintalk and have something that while far from perfect is light
years ahead of WB so far as souds go.

Save your money.  WB is nothing but a high priced rip-off whose only merit
is a catchy name.