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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:06:59 +0000
From: Peter Killworth <P.Killworth@soc.soton.ac.uk>
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Am I being stupid? I was stuck outside the silver door right at the
beginning of metamorphosis.
I picked up the runthrough and discovered there are exits from that
region. How is the player
supposed to know this? There's no reference in the room description.
Generically, the computer is supposed to be your eyes and hands. Not
telling the player stuff
that heshe could see in that location is hardly sensible, and it lost
this player from that
game henceforth. I just don't have time to go round trying eight compass
points and up and down
in each location "just in case".
Comments, anyone?
Peter Killworth
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