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From: f85-tno@nada.kth.se (Tommy Nordgren)
Subject: Using Hypercard for Plot design
Message-ID: <1993Mar9.204231.8264@kth.se>
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   You can use a multimedia application - such as hypercard to help in designing
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 20:42:31 GMT
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plots and maps for your text adventure projects, representing each location by
a background button and a card.
	The procedure is as follows:
1 - Create a new stack, with an empty background.Switch to background.
2 - Create two backrgound fields, laving a square area to the left in the
background allone. One small field for The name of the location.
One large scrollable for annotations.
3 - Make background buttons for each location. - preferrably framed buttons.
4 - Select drawing tools and draw lines to show connections.Switch to foreground.
5 - Make one card for each location.
6 - Select rectangle tool - and fill mode. Draw a black rectangle that covers
a button. Go to next card with arrow key and repeat step 6 until all cards are
filled in.
7 - You are now ready to start filling in text annotations in the fields.
8 - Whenever you need to add new locations, switch to background and repeat
steps 3 to 6. You can also make new stacks to represent major subparts of
your game. 

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Tommy Nordgren                     "What is a woman that you forsake her
Royal Institute of Technology       and the hearth fire,
Stockholm                           and the home acre,
f85-tno@nada.kth.se                 to go with the old grey widow maker."
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