Blob Quest



BLOB QUEST INSTRUCTIONS



All design, coding and music by Ritchie



TECHY INFO



This game was originally designed to work with your BASIC speccy tape machine

(or rather the adventure utility used to make it was)



This means that certain parts of the game only work if you've got an emulator

that can mimic tape saving and loading files off disc (I've seen an ST and

an Amiga emulator that can do this; but jpp definitely cannot - at least not

yet)



Most noticeably when you complete part one, you'll be asked to save some

information to tape. This info is loaded in when you start part two, to 

ensure all the objects and status flags you have at the end of part one are

carried over. Obviously if you emulator doesn't support tape loading then you

can't run part two period



If enough people complain I might do another snapshot of part two without

a saved game needed to be loading in, with just the right objects to complete

the game



THE PLOT



Blob lives in a small town, which is owned by the not incredibly nice Baron

Von Slog, who lives in a rather nice castle miles away from all the so called

riff-raff, presumably referring to Blob



Well life in Blob's town has just taken a turn for the worse, since the mean

old Baron has decided he wants to make some money out of his poor old

tenants. And so he introduced the Poll Tax



Needless to say, nobody was pleased about this. And so they decided to send

some mug off to Castle Slog and get rid of the evil Baron once and for all



And so, one morning, a crowd of people knocked on Blob's front door and told

him to get on with it and not come back until Baron Von Slog had been

thwarted



Quite unsurprisingly, Blob was unimpressed. However since several of the

party at the front door were carrying implements harmful to sensitive areas

of the body, he didn't want to argue



And so off he set....



THE GAME



The game is yer basic bog standard text adventure. Well there is a nice 128K

soundtrack to compensate for the fact that I can't draw



Basically you type in a series of commands to make up a sentence, which Blob

will then act upon. However, the sentence doesn't have to be full English, so

OPEN DOOR will probably work just as well as OPEN THE GREEN DOOR



Typing HELP will give you a list of the most commonly used phrases, such as

NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST (movement), LOOK (describes the room), GET and DROP

(getting and dropping objects) and EXAMINE (useful command that one)



Special commands include LOAD and SAVE to load and save a game to tape, and

QUIT to end your adventure

