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Hear ye, hear ye, Hugo Enthusiasts! (Try to say that 10 times fast...)

I just uploaded a game / tutorial entitled "Scavenger Hunt" to the archive.

THE GAME ITSELF
"Scavenger Hunt" is a comp-sized (bordering on small) game in which you have
to, well, look around and search everywhere in search of completely
unrelated items. Thrilling, isn't it? And how original! If the premise
sounds like "a game you'd write to learn an IF language", that's because
that's exactly what it is. Most of SH was done before I released "Nothing
More, Nothing Less".

Nevertheless, the game has been heavily betatested & refined, and it has
some cute multimedia contents, making it worthy of a look. Dan Shiovitz
probably summed it best, saying "This game would've been great... 7 years
ago."

THE TUTORIAL
As I said, I worked on ScavHunt back when I was still learning Hugo. At that
time, I decided to try an "incremental approach" - First I made a bunch of
rooms, then I coded the scenery, then the movable objects, and so on. After
I was done, I reworked those "versions" into 7 different files, each one
adding a new layer of complexity, and I also added copious comments.

To help people see what had changed between each version, I converted the
files to HTML format and used color coding. I believe the overall result is
relatively easy to follow, and should make a great complement to the Hugo
Manual.

WHERE'S WHAT?
Once the files are processed, they should be found in the archive at these
locations:
if-archive/games/hugo/ScavHunt.hex - The main game file
if-archive/games/hugo/ScavHuntFull.zip - A link to...
if-archive/programming/hugo/examples/ScavHuntFull.zip - The whole thing:
game file, resource file & tutorial files

In the meantime, you can check out www.plover.net/~lonecleric/hugo/, which
also has all the files. You can even browse the HTML ones straight from
there.

Hope this helps convince some Hugonauts-to-be (also known as Hugonnabes),
LoneCleric


