Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
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From: jorn@chinet.chi.il.us (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Re: Romance stuff
Message-ID: <C58D3B.H4G@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
References: <neilg.733997205@sfu.ca> <1993Apr9.004350.29427@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 19:06:47 GMT
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Mark Christopher Macsurak writes:
> [...]  the hero and heroine are usually not developed very
>well, they are stock archetypical models-- it is the journey or adventure that
>really counts.

But that's *easy* to do in TADS, then-- you just do a generic Collossal-Cave
and at the beginning say, "If you get enough points, you'll win the girl"
and at the end "You've won enough points, here's the girl..."  ;^)



