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From: aikc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Kenneth Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Many Player Games
Message-ID: <8682@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Feb 91 15:48:51 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University
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I have received a number of request about Cantrip, about what it is, and where
it can be got. Rather than answer them all individually, I'll post a short
description here, and hope to post a copy to st.binaries within a few days.
(Those that hate adventure games better hit the 'n' key now).

	Cantrip is a multi-user adventure game. It is written in C and there
are versions to run on various multi-user machines. It is a text based adventure
system. Players can interact with their surrounding and other players. There are
some monsters (NPCs) but they are pretty dumb at the moment. I ported the game
to the ST, using the Midi ports to build a simple network. Eventually the whole
thing will be put in the public domain, but not until its finished. Meantime
an almost finished set of binaries will be released. As far as possible I've
kept the software apart from the scenario, so that people can create there own
new world without having to learn C. Cantrip has a simple command language
which can be included in any text, such as room descriptions. The inital
adventure is not very large but shows how the commands can be used to build
up various puzzles and effects.
I'll post it as soon as I can.

-- 
,Kenneth.
K.Cameron@uk.ac.edinburgh                             kenneth@uk.ac.ed.cs.tardis