Xref: utzoo rec.games.video:994 rec.games.programmer:292 comp.sys.atari.8bit:1712 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!agate!saturn!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!lupin3 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 Message-ID: <4517@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 15 Aug 88 15:16:57 GMT References: <249@madnix.UUCP> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-) Organization: MetaWare, Incorporated Lines: 37 +-In article <249@madnix.UUCP>, ray@madnix.UUCP (Ray P. Hill) wrote:- | | | 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 | +---------- A.K.A. "Reflections of a God"... he has an ego larger than, oh, Mr. T. +---------- | | 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? | | Ray Hill | ray@madnix | +---------- 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. -- /|\ /|\ .. . . . . . . . . . . | |\| |\| .. . . . . . . . . . . |/|\|/|\|/|| _ _ _ _ |_| _ _ |_ -__ _ _ARPA: lupin3@ucscb.ucsc.EDU | |/| |/|L_ (_\( ( (_/ | |(_\_) (_ || )(_)_)UUCP: *!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!lupin3 \|/ \|/ larry / hastings _/ BITNET: lupin3@ucscb@ucscc.BITNET MetaWare Inc. Durable Software, Constructed Automatically "Not much fun in Disclaimer:[MetaWare, UCSC]->opinion != lhastings->opinion Stalingrad, no."