Write Your Own Fantasy Games
by Les Howarth, Jenny Tyler · first published 1984
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Type in the DUNGEON OF DOOM adventure game as an aide memoire to your own thrilling endeavours in a fantasy world where the only limit is your imagination.
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A period, multiplatform alternative: Usborne's Write Your Own Fantasy Games by Les Howarth and Cheryl Evans from 1984 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTel93SThEYkJkZHc . (Generously provided by Usborne https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books )
on “C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)” ↗The "Write Your Own Fantasy Games" features illustrations by a Chris Riddell. Wonder if this is the same Chris Riddell who does cartoons for the Guardian, and was UK Children's Laureate from 2015-17?
on “Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s” ↗That first "Write your own Fantasy Games" is an early Roguelike tutorial.
on “Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s” ↗Possibly - that Chris Riddell was born in 1962, and the publication date on Amazon for Write Your Own Fantasy Games (Usborne Computers & Electronics) is 26 October 1984, so he'd be 22 at the time. I was a huge fan of The Edge Chronicles as a kid.
on “Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s” ↗