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From: czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.games.misc
Subject: DarkCastle on a CD?
Message-ID: <158@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 88 15:46:14 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
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Keywords: Dark Castle Mac CD CD-I

Has anyone seen the new magazine HyperMedia? It had an article
about Dark Castle being ported to the new Compact Disk-Interactive
format, and it looks extremely interesting.  They are approaching
the project somewhat like a movie, hiring someone with movie experience
in image design to do the backgrounds, and a composer to create music
and sound effects.  The whole thing is in color with higher quality
audio than the Mac, although I don't think it will be quite 44.1kHz.

The play is supposed to be different than the regular game, incorporating
all the new hypermedia concepts.  For example, usally if the player
sits still in an arcade game, the player gets killed.  In this version,
if the player wishes to just watch, the game will cease being a normal
game, and be more like a movie, presenting a story about a character
using the game's sets as a backdrop.  If the player wishes to jump into
the story and take over a character, the story will adapt, and become
more like the game.  In this way, the user can participate as much as
desired.  With the capacity of CD's and the use of AI, there could
be an unlimited quantity of stories that could be told.  This sounds
much more interesting than the usual game where the hero faces the
same pitfalls every single time.

I think this just sounds facinating.....


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