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LOST ! July 1994
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GENERAL INFORMATIONS:
LOST ! is a simple 3D Maze I made to learn how to use some of the Mac features.
So please, don't expect a wondeful game. However some friends of mine liked it,
and for this reason I decided to realase it (however I'm too shy to realase the
sources :)). Since it is my first program and it is very silly I can't distribuite
it as shareware, but if you really enjoy it please send 5-10 $ to the RED CROSS
to help the people of Rwanda, it would make me very happy.
Except the start message all messages and all the images of the game are in the
resources of the program so you can change them with ResEdit. For example you
can change the image of the princess who is prisoner in the maze with a prince,
or you may change the scrolls into keys. All i ask to you is to send to me the
changes and every comment about the game that you think can be used to improve it.
Email your comments to: marco@maya.dei.unipd.it
HOW TO PLAY:
As I wrote, LOST ! is a 3D maze. The target of the game is to find the prison where
a beautiful princess is kept prisoner. You should try to save her ! To move into
the maze isn't easy because there are some gates which stop you. It is possible to
remove the gates opening some scrolls. They are showed in a window under the main
one. To open a scroll is very easy, you just have to find it in the maze. It is ever
possible to resolve the maze (it doesn't exist an impossible one). The map of the
dungeon is random generated everytime the game starts so you can play every time in
a different mazes, but you can ever save the game to continue it later. Since the
labirint is VERY big I suggest you to draw a map of it so you can go back and
never get LOST in the dungeon (!). To move inside the dungeon use the mouse, the
pointer shows a different direction in funtion of his position, you just have to
click and you take that direction. To pick up a scroll you have to move close to it
and pick up it with the mouse (it is easyer to do than to explain).
HARDWARE REQUIRED:
Since the program was an exercise to learn how to program the mac i used a lot of
graphic functions to learn how to use them. Unfortunately in this way the game
became very slow on an old Mac (and even in my LCIII it is pretty slow). If I'll
have time I'll make it faster but now I really can't to that. For example, with
ResEdit you can change the dimensions of the main window and the maze will still
fill it without to loose resolution (easy to do, I know, but I'm learning !, however
it means that the player view is drawn at each step !).
All this is to tell you to don't get angry with me if you find the program too slow
(Please be patient !!).
The game should work with all the recent video-configuration of Macs, but it works
better (=faster) in the 256 color mode.
APOLOGIZES:
Please forgive me for my bad English in this document and in all the messages in the
game, I'll appreciate every corretion to it (I want to IMPROVE IT !!). And please
forgive me for all the times this program will irritate you for its bugs (I hope
there aren't bugs but ... you know ...Murphy !).
DEDICATIONS:
This program (as all i do) is dedicated to Renee a REAL princess !!!
ADDRESS:
If you need to contact me this is my full address:
Marco Pontil
Via Col da Ren 83
32100 Belluno
ITALY
E-Mail: marco@maya.dei.unipd.it
ENJOY !!!!!!!!