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From: lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,rec.games.programmer,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Game Design Books
Keywords: Crawford's Book Excalibur Legionnaire Gossip
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Date: 15 Aug 88 15:16:57 GMT
References: <249@madnix.UUCP>
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+-In article <249@madnix.UUCP>, ray@madnix.UUCP (Ray P. Hill) wrote:-
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| After just reading a second hand copy of "The Art of Computer Game Design,
| Reflections of a Master Game Designer" by Chris Crawford, I wonder are there
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  A.K.A. "Reflections of a God"... he has an ego larger than, oh, Mr. T.
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| Throughout the book he discusses his greatest software releases. I purchased
| and play "Eastern Front", but what is this "Excalibur", "Legionnaire" and 
| "Gossip"? Are these titles something I should look for or weren't they worth a
| look?
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| 					Ray Hill
| 					ray@madnix
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  As you commented (edited out) about how the book was dated, yes, so are the
games.  Excalibur was released not by Atari, but by that same company that
destributed the sequel to Caverns of Mars and Karnov's (wrong name, and no
it's not Pavlov's, it's some canine pun name) Dogs (the company that distributed
Atari games that people wrote but no one else would sell).  Gossip was never
finished to my knowlege (and would not have had much of an audience had it been
released) and I've never heard of Legionnaire; though even now that I have I'm
not terribly excited about it.

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