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[ DESIGNING ADVENTURE PUZZLES ARTICLE - CONTINUATION ]
LET'S have an example of a typical adventure game (CROBE).
SEA / BEACH
O----------------------O----------------O
| CLIFFS \
|
O--O--O flour O----------------O lemming
| / \ | | mystic
zombie O O TOWN | pole
| \ / | | flame
O--O--O accordion |
| |
fish O----O----------------------O----O princess, throne
RIVER ROAD |
|
O witch
THE START OF AN ADVENTURE
This is a game you probably haven't come across, called CROBE. The hero
has been sent to deal with some evil being called Karg who has laid the
town of Crobe to waste and is now believed to be in hiding somewhere in
the cliffs nearby with an army of trolls. Your mission is to dispose of
him.
Well, I don't intend to explain how to do this but, for illustration,
let us look at some of the 'above ground' features.
Over to the west we have the ruined town of Croke and its sea-front
with the tide in. Objects which may or may not be of use include a
wandering zombie, a bag of flour and an accordion. Also a dead fish
washed up on a river bank. Over to the east, outside the town, there is
more to see: a witch, who demands that you discuss some interesting
topic with her (though initially nothing seems to interest her); a prin-
cess on a golden throne; a mystic sitting on a pole near a fire; and a
statue of "The Unknown Lemming", appropriately placed at the cliff edge.
Experiment suggests that eating the fish is not a good idea, as it
needs cooking. However, when you cook the fish on the sacred fire, the
mystic grabs it and runs off, complaining that he hasn't eaten for weeks
and your action in cooking fish nearby is more than his flesh and blood
can stand. So this leaves you with a pole, by the cliff edge.
Kissing the princess is obvious enough: she turns into a frog, allow-
ing you to sit down on the throne. In best Canute style, this causes the
waves to recede and the beach to appear. The frog itself has another use
later, but at this stage it just makes strange croaks of "WEEBLE",
"BARGLE" etc at you.
Proceeding along the beach you find a cave entrance, but since there
is a cyclops standing in it, it is rash to go further. Instead you go
back and push the pole over the cliff (so that he comes out to investi-
gate) and finally push the lemming over over (crushing him). In fact the
items you haven't yet used do come in useful later, although you have to
explore a bit further to see how they fit into the game. That's probably
a fairly hard opening for an adventure.
Let me give some examples of what I consider to be bad puzzles -
where the player feels dissatisfied, even when he's solved them (I'm not
claiming that I can always do better!). They all come from games which
otherwise are good in many respects.
Waving the rod (a magic wand) in COLOSSAL CAVE: first of all you are
supposed to wave it in places where it is not at all obvious that you
need to do anything at all (e.g. at a fissure, where a crystal bridge
appears); secondly there are places where you need to wave it twice
before anything happens. This seems a bit unfair. The player ends up
trying to wave the rod everywhere he goes.
The magazines in COLOSSAL CAVE. You score a point for leaving them
somewhere. It is not at all clear why!
In ZORK, there is a curtain of fire. Saying GO NORTH (or whatever
direction it is) doesn't let you pass through. WALK THROUGH CURTAIN is
required. No one knows why, and most people have to be told the precise
wording.
Again in ZORK, there is a puzzle founded on Baseball. Not must point
if you don't know the game!
In HEZARIN, there is a place where you see the illuminated sign
"G - 1 - 2 - 3". The answer is ENTER LIFT. All right, there is a puzzle
here - to recognise that it's a life. But I would prefer CALL LIFT as
the solution and would have wanted to allow PRESS BUTTON or whatever as
well (assuming that there is a lift button).
In L, a Mathematical adventure, there is an elliptical billiard table
where the ball starts at one focus and you find that, whatever angle you
hit it in, it goes into a pocket at the other focus. All very interest-
ing, but totally useless: there isn't a puzzle there at all, it's merely
rather irritating local colour - irritating because the player looks for
a problem that isn't there!
How much magic do you put into an adventure? Well, there are perfect-
ly good adventures (eg. XENOPHOBIA, which is set in London) in which no
magic is involved. At the other extreme you have adventures with magic
words chalked up on every wall and the poor player going all the way
round the game trying to find out where exactly the word "BZZZT" does
something, only to discover that you have to be in the Great Hall and
holding both the parrot and the teapot, but having already eaten the
melon and thrown the pig at the duchess. I exaggerate, but you see what
I'm objecting to: purposeless magic. Magical artefacts that suggest what
they might be useful for (eg. mushrooms that when eaten make you strong,
causing you to wonder where strength might be useful) are much better
than objects with irrelevant magical side-effects.
This article continued in V.+AVART3. First published EUG #54.
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Experime| 00000710 6e 74 20 73 75 67 67 65 73 74 73 20 74 68 61 74 |nt suggests that| 00000720 20 65 61 74 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 66 69 73 68 | eating the fish| 00000730 20 69 73 20 6e 6f 74 20 61 20 67 6f 6f 64 20 69 | is not a good i| 00000740 64 65 61 2c 20 61 73 20 69 74 0d 6e 65 65 64 73 |dea, as it.needs| 00000750 20 63 6f 6f 6b 69 6e 67 2e 20 48 6f 77 65 76 65 | cooking. Howeve| 00000760 72 2c 20 77 68 65 6e 20 79 6f 75 20 63 6f 6f 6b |r, when you cook| 00000770 20 74 68 65 20 66 69 73 68 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 65 | the fish on the| 00000780 20 73 61 63 72 65 64 20 66 69 72 65 2c 20 74 68 | sacred fire, th| 00000790 65 0d 6d 79 73 74 69 63 20 67 72 61 62 73 20 69 |e.mystic grabs i| 000007a0 74 20 61 6e 64 20 72 75 6e 73 20 6f 66 66 2c 20 |t and runs off, | 000007b0 63 6f 6d 70 6c 61 69 6e 69 6e 67 20 74 68 61 74 |complaining that| 000007c0 20 68 65 20 68 61 73 6e 27 74 20 65 61 74 65 6e | he hasn't eaten| 000007d0 20 66 6f 72 20 77 65 65 6b 73 0d 61 6e 64 20 79 | for weeks.and y| 000007e0 6f 75 72 20 61 63 74 69 6f 6e 20 69 6e 20 63 6f |our action in co| 000007f0 6f 6b 69 6e 67 20 66 69 73 68 20 6e 65 61 72 62 |oking fish nearb| 00000800 79 20 69 73 20 6d 6f 72 65 20 74 68 61 6e 20 68 |y is more than h| 00000810 69 73 20 66 6c 65 73 68 20 61 6e 64 20 62 6c 6f |is flesh and blo| 00000820 6f 64 0d 63 61 6e 20 73 74 61 6e 64 2e 20 53 6f |od.can stand. So| 00000830 20 74 68 69 73 20 6c 65 61 76 65 73 20 79 6f 75 | this leaves you| 00000840 20 77 69 74 68 20 61 20 70 6f 6c 65 2c 20 62 79 | with a pole, by| 00000850 20 74 68 65 20 63 6c 69 66 66 20 65 64 67 65 2e | the cliff edge.| 00000860 0d 20 20 20 4b 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 |. Kissing the | 00000870 70 72 69 6e 63 65 73 73 20 69 73 20 6f 62 76 69 |princess is obvi| 00000880 6f 75 73 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 3a 20 73 68 65 20 |ous enough: she | 00000890 74 75 72 6e 73 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 61 20 66 72 6f |turns into a fro| 000008a0 67 2c 20 61 6c 6c 6f 77 2d 0d 69 6e 67 20 79 6f |g, allow-.ing yo| 000008b0 75 20 74 6f 20 73 69 74 20 64 6f 77 6e 20 6f 6e |u to sit down on| 000008c0 20 74 68 65 20 74 68 72 6f 6e 65 2e 20 49 6e 20 | the throne. In | 000008d0 62 65 73 74 20 43 61 6e 75 74 65 20 73 74 79 6c |best Canute styl| 000008e0 65 2c 20 74 68 69 73 20 63 61 75 73 65 73 20 74 |e, this causes t| 000008f0 68 65 0d 77 61 76 65 73 20 74 6f 20 72 65 63 65 |he.waves to rece| 00000900 64 65 20 61 6e 64 20 74 68 65 20 62 65 61 63 68 |de and the beach| 00000910 20 74 6f 20 61 70 70 65 61 72 2e 20 54 68 65 20 | to appear. The | 00000920 66 72 6f 67 20 69 74 73 65 6c 66 20 68 61 73 20 |frog itself has | 00000930 61 6e 6f 74 68 65 72 20 75 73 65 0d 6c 61 74 65 |another use.late| 00000940 72 2c 20 62 75 74 20 61 74 20 74 68 69 73 20 73 |r, but at this s| 00000950 74 61 67 65 20 69 74 20 6a 75 73 74 20 6d 61 6b |tage it just mak| 00000960 65 73 20 73 74 72 61 6e 67 65 20 63 72 6f 61 6b |es strange croak| 00000970 73 20 6f 66 20 22 57 45 45 42 4c 45 22 2c 20 0d |s of "WEEBLE", .| 00000980 22 42 41 52 47 4c 45 22 20 65 74 63 20 61 74 20 |"BARGLE" etc at | 00000990 79 6f 75 2e 0d 20 20 20 50 72 6f 63 65 65 64 69 |you.. Proceedi| 000009a0 6e 67 20 61 6c 6f 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 62 65 61 |ng along the bea| 000009b0 63 68 20 79 6f 75 20 66 69 6e 64 20 61 20 63 61 |ch you find a ca| 000009c0 76 65 20 65 6e 74 72 61 6e 63 65 2c 20 62 75 74 |ve entrance, but| 000009d0 20 73 69 6e 63 65 20 74 68 65 72 65 0d 69 73 20 | since there.is | 000009e0 61 20 63 79 63 6c 6f 70 73 20 73 74 61 6e 64 69 |a cyclops standi| 000009f0 6e 67 20 69 6e 20 69 74 2c 20 69 74 20 69 73 20 |ng in it, it is | 00000a00 72 61 73 68 20 74 6f 20 67 6f 20 66 75 72 74 68 |rash to go furth| 00000a10 65 72 2e 20 49 6e 73 74 65 61 64 20 79 6f 75 20 |er. Instead you | 00000a20 67 6f 20 0d 62 61 63 6b 20 61 6e 64 20 70 75 73 |go .back and pus| 00000a30 68 20 74 68 65 20 70 6f 6c 65 20 6f 76 65 72 20 |h the pole over | 00000a40 74 68 65 20 63 6c 69 66 66 20 28 73 6f 20 74 68 |the cliff (so th| 00000a50 61 74 20 68 65 20 63 6f 6d 65 73 20 6f 75 74 20 |at he comes out | 00000a60 74 6f 20 69 6e 76 65 73 74 69 2d 0d 67 61 74 65 |to investi-.gate| 00000a70 29 20 61 6e 64 20 66 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 20 70 75 |) and finally pu| 00000a80 73 68 20 74 68 65 20 6c 65 6d 6d 69 6e 67 20 6f |sh the lemming o| 00000a90 76 65 72 20 6f 76 65 72 20 28 63 72 75 73 68 69 |ver over (crushi| 00000aa0 6e 67 20 68 69 6d 29 2e 20 49 6e 20 66 61 63 74 |ng him). In fact| 00000ab0 20 74 68 65 0d 69 74 65 6d 73 20 79 6f 75 20 68 | the.items you h| 00000ac0 61 76 65 6e 27 74 20 79 65 74 20 75 73 65 64 20 |aven't yet used | 00000ad0 64 6f 20 63 6f 6d 65 20 69 6e 20 75 73 65 66 75 |do come in usefu| 00000ae0 6c 20 6c 61 74 65 72 2c 20 61 6c 74 68 6f 75 67 |l later, althoug| 00000af0 68 20 79 6f 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 74 6f 0d 65 78 |h you have to.ex| 00000b00 70 6c 6f 72 65 20 61 20 62 69 74 20 66 75 72 74 |plore a bit furt| 00000b10 68 65 72 20 74 6f 20 73 65 65 20 68 6f 77 20 74 |her to see how t| 00000b20 68 65 79 20 66 69 74 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 74 68 65 |hey fit into the| 00000b30 20 67 61 6d 65 2e 20 54 68 61 74 27 73 20 70 72 | game. That's pr| 00000b40 6f 62 61 62 6c 79 0d 61 20 66 61 69 72 6c 79 20 |obably.a fairly | 00000b50 68 61 72 64 20 6f 70 65 6e 69 6e 67 20 66 6f 72 |hard opening for| 00000b60 20 61 6e 20 61 64 76 65 6e 74 75 72 65 2e 0d 20 | an adventure.. | 00000b70 20 20 4c 65 74 20 6d 65 20 67 69 76 65 20 73 6f | Let me give so| 00000b80 6d 65 20 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65 73 20 6f 66 20 77 |me examples of w| 00000b90 68 61 74 20 49 20 63 6f 6e 73 69 64 65 72 20 74 |hat I consider t| 00000ba0 6f 20 62 65 20 62 61 64 20 70 75 7a 7a 6c 65 73 |o be bad puzzles| 00000bb0 20 2d 20 0d 77 68 65 72 65 20 74 68 65 20 70 6c | - .where the pl| 00000bc0 61 79 65 72 20 66 65 65 6c 73 20 64 69 73 73 61 |ayer feels dissa| 00000bd0 74 69 73 66 69 65 64 2c 20 65 76 65 6e 20 77 68 |tisfied, even wh| 00000be0 65 6e 20 68 65 27 73 20 73 6f 6c 76 65 64 20 74 |en he's solved t| 00000bf0 68 65 6d 20 28 49 27 6d 20 6e 6f 74 0d 63 6c 61 |hem (I'm not.cla| 00000c00 69 6d 69 6e 67 20 74 68 61 74 20 49 20 63 61 6e |iming that I can| 00000c10 20 61 6c 77 61 79 73 20 64 6f 20 62 65 74 74 65 | always do bette| 00000c20 72 21 29 2e 20 54 68 65 79 20 61 6c 6c 20 63 6f |r!). They all co| 00000c30 6d 65 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 67 61 6d 65 73 20 77 68 |me from games wh| 00000c40 69 63 68 0d 6f 74 68 65 72 77 69 73 65 20 61 72 |ich.otherwise ar| 00000c50 65 20 67 6f 6f 64 20 69 6e 20 6d 61 6e 79 20 72 |e good in many r| 00000c60 65 73 70 65 63 74 73 2e 0d 20 20 20 57 61 76 69 |espects.. Wavi| 00000c70 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 72 6f 64 20 28 61 20 6d 61 |ng the rod (a ma| 00000c80 67 69 63 20 77 61 6e 64 29 20 69 6e 20 43 4f 4c |gic wand) in COL| 00000c90 4f 53 53 41 4c 20 43 41 56 45 3a 20 66 69 72 73 |OSSAL CAVE: firs| 00000ca0 74 20 6f 66 20 61 6c 6c 20 79 6f 75 20 61 72 65 |t of all you are| 00000cb0 0d 73 75 70 70 6f 73 65 64 20 74 6f 20 77 61 76 |.supposed to wav| 00000cc0 65 20 69 74 20 69 6e 20 70 6c 61 63 65 73 20 77 |e it in places w| 00000cd0 68 65 72 65 20 69 74 20 69 73 20 6e 6f 74 20 61 |here it is not a| 00000ce0 74 20 61 6c 6c 20 6f 62 76 69 6f 75 73 20 74 68 |t all obvious th| 00000cf0 61 74 20 79 6f 75 0d 6e 65 65 64 20 74 6f 20 64 |at you.need to d| 00000d00 6f 20 61 6e 79 74 68 69 6e 67 20 61 74 20 61 6c |o anything at al| 00000d10 6c 20 28 65 2e 67 2e 20 61 74 20 61 20 66 69 73 |l (e.g. at a fis| 00000d20 73 75 72 65 2c 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 61 20 63 72 |sure, where a cr| 00000d30 79 73 74 61 6c 20 62 72 69 64 67 65 0d 61 70 70 |ystal bridge.app| 00000d40 65 61 72 73 29 3b 20 73 65 63 6f 6e 64 6c 79 20 |ears); secondly | 00000d50 74 68 65 72 65 20 61 72 65 20 70 6c 61 63 65 73 |there are places| 00000d60 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 79 6f 75 20 6e 65 65 64 20 | where you need | 00000d70 74 6f 20 77 61 76 65 20 69 74 20 74 77 69 63 65 |to wave it twice| 00000d80 20 0d 62 65 66 6f 72 65 20 61 6e 79 74 68 69 6e | .before anythin| 00000d90 67 20 68 61 70 70 65 6e 73 2e 20 54 68 69 73 20 |g happens. 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