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From: pshepard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Pat Shepard)
Subject: Re: More rambling 
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In article <753362897snz@frootbat.demon.co.uk>,
Ian Cottee <zobbo@frootbat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <2c7lal$jsk@agate.berkeley.edu> whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu 
rites:
>
>>One last contemplation:  If you were trying to sell a text adventure to
ay,
>> what selling points would YOU emphasize?  Just curious.
>
>With the increased use of CD's, I'd like to see some old style text 
>adventures on cd, but using all the space available. The author could th
n
>spend ages thinking of every possible action the user would want to do a
d 
>coding for this. Make a change from games stuffed full of hi res graphic
. 
>
>-- 
>  Ian Cottee - 15, Gerards Close, Varcoe Road, S Bermondsey, London, SE1
 3DF
>    zobbo@frootbat.demon.co.uk  ***************  zobbo@cix.compulink.co.
k
>* Don't go hanging onto rainbows, the colours just slip and you start to
slide*


      
Using *all* the space available?  Maybe you don't have a firm grasp of
how much space there is on a CD-ROM - get out a Bible.  Notice how small
the type is and how thin the pages are - tactics for getting a lot into
a small (physical) space.  A CD-ROM can hold over a *hundred* copies of
the Bible.
 
You're asking for IF appproximately a *thousand* times as big as the     
biggest IF I'm familiar with.  More than a bit of overkill.  Graphics
take up space really quickly - one high quality photo can take three
times the space that *all* of Zork does.
 
Though I'd like it, I cannot imagine someone writing an IF game (of any
quality) 10 megs in size.  The amount of labor that would take is mind-
boggling.  Maybe a professional team, well managed, could pull it off.
But 600 megs???  Ain't gonna happen.                                  

