Upgrade Time #14: Dealing with complexity
5This is the fourteenth part of a small series of videos where I'll show how we can take an old game and improve it significantly!
In this episode I try to make sense of what looks like very complicated code logic...
Links to the pages shown in the video:
- https://www.oric.org/software/encounter-1165.html (Oric.org page)
- http://osdk.org/index.php?page=documentation&subpage=bas2tap (OSDK page about Bas2Tap)
- http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1803 (Forum page about this game)
- http://miniserve.defence-force.org/viewvc/projet1/users/dbug/UpgradeTime/Encounter (files and scripts)
About Encounter:
"Encounter" (also known as "Encounter Adventure") is an Oric game released in 1983 by Severn Software.
This is a classical text adventure where you enter text commands and the computer answers by describing what happens, where you are, items you can find around.