MSXdev'18 #8 - Any Treasure Day | MSX Resource Center

Any Treasure Day is the 8th entry for MSXdev’18. It is a text adventure, like C.C.R. Anexo 1 El Algoritmo, the 4th entry before. This game was made a while ago, and now it is released as an engine test compatible with the Graphical Adventure Creator. The author recommends not to play this adventure using C-BIOS at this point.

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While exploring the countryside, you find a sign.
It says: “Any Treasure Day! Bring any treasures here! You will be rewarded with Fame, Money, Food! Anything!”

Are you able to find treasure here?

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Relevant link: MSXdev - Any Treasure Day

Comments (8)

By santiontanon

Paragon (1805)

29-10-2018, 06:49

Wow 8 entries already! nice!!!!

Downloading right now!

By Timmy

Master (200)

29-10-2018, 11:58

Oh wow, I didn't expected this to be on here this quickly!

Anyway, it's a really small text adventure, in screen 0, because I wanted to see a screen 0 game.

By hamlet

Scribe (4106)

29-10-2018, 20:15

"You are in a comfortable tunnel like a hall." I like text adventures! Thanks!

By Uninteresting

Champion (352)

29-10-2021, 17:14

The game that ìnspired me to make Uninteresting Adventures (Jäästä+Step). A bit short, and I kind of wish it had multiple endings? But there was no trouble with guessing the correct words in Any Treasure Day.

By Uninteresting

Champion (352)

29-10-2021, 17:14

By Timmy

Master (200)

30-10-2021, 19:29

Uninteresting wrote:

I'm not sure what the question is? Are you suggesting I should make another?

The game is supposed to be short, because it was for MSXDev. Also, I haven't seen any text adventure games on the MSX so I don't believe it's a good idea to start with a hard game, or a large one, or one where you have to figure out which verbs to use.

But if you have any request, then I would like to hear it.

By Uninteresting

Champion (352)

30-10-2021, 20:42

No, no. I meant I think the plot had an opportunity to have multiple different treasures to find for different endings. Or were there?

The game and the contest is done now, anyway, so I don't think there's much point in going back to adding content to it now. So, this is not a request.

As for text adventures on MSX -- I remember some MSX Basic books having text adventures in them, and it appears that at least Zork is available on MSX. As for the length -- it is indeed better to keep it short when there's no save option (that I knew of?).

I agree on the hard and large games, and you very successfully avoided the danger of the player getting stuck due to moon logic. Well done!

(I think it's a shame that playing the ZX Spectrum text adventures on ZX Spectrum Vega would require me to use that very cumbersome soft keyboard... so I don't play them.)

By Timmy

Master (200)

05-11-2021, 13:54

There's only one ending. It's a reversal to all those early adventure games where you had to put 20+ treasure items back to the starting room.

There is no save option because I don't know how to add save options, and I always play these games on emulators, so I save my games using save states.

And I nowadays play text adventures using an emulator with all my hacking/decoding tools. Some of the earlier adventure games (on the Spectrum) are literally impossible to finish otherwise.

PS. ATD is also special because it has a functional GAC interpreter (except for the graphical part). That means it's also capable to play other ZX GAC games if you know how to replace the game data.

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