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From: hellers@ix.netcom.com (Stan Heller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: FABLE:Electronic Note in a Bottle
Date: 4 Sep 1995 16:09:07 GMT
I was quite surprised yesterday to see that one of the recent
offerings in the Interactive Fiction Archive was written by
me and dated 1985. The piece was called "Fable" and after an inquiry
to Volker Blasius I discovered that not only has this been bouncing
around the Net for years, it was even panned in a review.
Just for the record, "Fable" was a sketch and never intended for full
public release. I was helping Mark Welch beta test an adventure
game authoring system. I guess he needed a few concrete examples
to demo and he used my stuff. It was not a complete game, never
intended to be and I am a bit embarrassed to discover it on the
NET in this form.
To give you all the proper historical context, that sketch was written
on an IBM PCjr (!!!)
Now that I know it is out there, I suspect I will have to dust off
the old files and actually write the full game. I think I will use
a different game authoring system, however.
As I told Volker, I'm not angry about this- just surprised and a
bit amused. To anyone who took "Fable" as a finished work ( or even
cared) this is a disclaimer. I did not think the work was finished and
I never would have published it ot the Net in its present form.
=stan