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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: New TADS game
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:20:36 GMT
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 Just came across a new text adventure developed with TADS on the
umich mac archive site. It's called "Save Princeton," was developed by
a couple of Princeton students, and I can't say much else since I
haven't spent much time playing it.

 It seems reasonably interesting, although full of little in-jokes and
sly references to friends and campus events. It was compiled under
TADS 2.0.8 (although it doesn't take advantage of any new TADS 2.0
features except for VM, apparently) and is thus painfully slow on a
68000 Mac.

 It might best be summarized by this line from the game:

 "Jacob takes the disk and reads the label.  "TADS?  This looks neat.
I've always wanted to write my own adventure game."  he says.  "I'll
make a game with all my friends in it, and clever puzzles, and oodles
of self-reference." 

 Anyway, just in case anyone was interested...

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
