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Herausgeber: JayDax
Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
Sprache: Englisch

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In 1982 'Castle of Riddles', an adventure game for the BBC model B computer, was published. This retro game was text only but challenging.

The new version of this game has been greatly expanded with more puzzles, graphics and sound but still retains the appeal of the original version and is even more challenging.

You're probably going to get stuck so here are all the answers including fifty ways to die,

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Leseprobe

The Complete Guide

Castle of Riddles Revisited

By John Chapman

Hexham

John Chapman has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

Except in the case of historical fact, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

ISBN-13: 9781005554897

EBook edition

Thank you for downloading this ebook. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you found this book helpful, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favourite authorized retailer.

It’s not available in PDF format. If you are reading it in that format it is an illegal copy. PDF makes for an unsatisfactory reading experience on a small screen.

Thank you for your support.

This book may use a mixture of US and UK English. The author is English but has spent time in the US and is now totally confused about the proper spelling of English words.

Contents

About this guide

‘Tell me more’ section

20 Quick hints

General route

Fifty Ways to Die

50 Problems, Hints and Answers

Problems

Hints

Answers

Maps of the game

The Forest map:

From the castle entrance to the courtyard (Original game).

From the castle entrance to the courtyard (New game).

The west passage

The north passage

The east passage

The castle dungeon:

The giant’s palace:

Detailed walkthrough hints

The forest – detailed walkthrough

From the castle entrance to the courtyard

The Safe Room

The West Passage

The North Passageway

The East Passage

Using the dynamite on the west passage

Back to the North Passage

Using Dynamite on the East Passage

The Giant’s Palace

Getting the Ring

Treasures collected

In memory of:

Peter Killworth 1946 – 2008

About this guide

Back in 1982 a wonderful personal computer made by Acorn was supported by the BBC. It was distributed to schools throughout the UK as the BBC Model B and was popularly known as ‘the Beeb’. It didn’t take long for the gaming community to make use of it and an adventure game called Castle of Riddles, written by Peter Killworth appeared.

By today’s standard, Castle of Riddles was primitive. It was text only – no room for graphics or sound – but it was FUN and a challenge. 18 years later the version covered by this book is an update. You can access the game FREE and play it on your web browser. Find it at http://jaydax.co.uk/corr and at other locations. I hope you still find it a challenge and if you get stuck – here are all the answers.

In the game, use the side menu. If it’s not visible you can make it appear using the ‘>’ at the top left of your screen. It will tell you:

You can zoom in on most of the images in this guide. Try double clicking or pinch expand.

Also, on the side bar you can find buttons for:

a full inventory,

Saves – you can save 10 locations. These are stored in your browser and will be cleared if you delete cookies.

A restart button.

The score shown on the sidebar allows you to see if you are making progress. If it decreases, then step back a move. You’ll find it increases for each new location you visit, each object you find, and each successful action you make.

This guide provides different levels of help. The further you go through it the more powerful the help.

Want some quick hints?

If you are stuck then the Problems, Hints and Answers section may be all you need.

If you want an outline of the game giving guidance but no details on solving problems, then there’s a general route section.

If you simply wish to be aware of the pitfalls, then the section ‘Fifty ways to die’ may give you some warning.

Prefer a map? There are maps of the forest, the castle entrance, the west corridor, north corridor, east corridor, the castle dungeon, the giant’s palace.

Finally, there are walkthroughs of each section.

John Chapman

‘Tell me more’ section

Did you read the ‘Tell me more’ page? If you did then you might have noticed that your score went up by five points. If you didn’t read it then this is what you would have learnt. I’ve italicised the bits that help you.

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The original 'Castle of Riddles' was a text only adventure game written for the BBC microcomputer in 1982 by Peter Killworth. Played on a 32 Kb computer and written in BBC Basic, it had no room for graphics and limited space for text. The text was cleverly compressed making it unreadable to most people so you couldn’t cheat by looking at the code written in BBC Basic.

This version has been updated to include graphics and sound, extended to add more text, has more things to collect and uses a pointer or touch to input some text. You can access the game free at http://jaydax.co.uk/corr/ and elsewhere.

The original game tested only the first four letters of each word entered and the case you typed in didn’t matter. This version allows that too except for the safe password which is case sensitive. That's very helpful on a small screen device.

You'll probably die often so I advise you to save your position regularly. In the original game it was impossible to complete without being killed at least once. In this version you can complete the game without being killed. A word of warning, the game saves your position using cookies so progress will be lost if you delete them.

If you are killed, use the back icon to go back a step and try something else or reload a saved position.

General advice

It's dangerous to move in the dark, however, many of us work well in the dark and learn from our mistakes. [a subtle hint to tell you sometimes you have to turn the light off] Your light source, if you have one, like a real one, will eventually lose power.

Tunnels and passages bend so heading north into one may not mean you enter the next from the south.

You can use some of the objects you find. Others just get in the way and take up space. You can only carry a limited number of items in your hands but you do have pockets for small items.

Beware of small green dragons. They steal things and you usually can't recover them.

You will usually add one point to your score for every new location you visit. Some locations get you more than one point and others cost you points. You'll also get points for every object you collect and every action you complete. Some objects point scores can be doubled but I'm not going to tell you how to do that. [I will tell you in this book] Some actions will cost you one or more points. You don't get points for wandering lost; that costs you points. You can't win if your score is low.

I'm not guaranteeing that this version (1.1) is mistake and bug free. If you come across one - please let me know on Twitter - you'll find me there as @JChapman1729. Curious about that odd number 1729? It has a special meaning. I also write books including one called 'Immortality Gene'. If you were immortal and only killed by accidents then your life expectancy would be 1729 years. Incidentally that book is FREE - follow me on Twitter and you'll find a link to it.

[Go back] [Just get on with it]

The original game offered a prize of £1,500 and a silver 'Ring of Power' trophy. Released in February 1982 the prize had to be claimed by the end of March 1982. It says a lot for the game's difficulty that it took gamers almost to the deadline before someone claimed the prize. This game is harder and the only prize you'll get is the satisfaction of completing it.

You can find walkthroughs for the original game online and they may give you some help. [There’s a full walkthrough for this game in this book] if you are really stuck then there will be an ebook of cheats available with maps, hints and a walkthrough. [You are reading it.]