- I have always been very focused on graphics in games, especially when I was younger, so I never played a lot of text adventures on the Amiga. I have a vague memory of seeing the Mindshadow box somewhere in those days, but I never played it.
- I have steel, shell, and used a vine to crawl down to a cave. What now?
- Oh, you have to dig in the cave to get a map.
- I've intepreted the map as: 'stand in front of the hut, and move NNEN, EESS, E.'
- And to go back: W, NNWW, SWSS.
- I find a rock in the cave, climb up the vine, and then I fell to my death, because I was overencumbered? Game over, start again. That seems overly harsh.
- You can drown in quick sand! That's the punishment for misreading the map.
- Yes, I got some straw, used a rock on the steel and lit a fire ... inside a straw hut. I'm dead.
- Dammit, I was being too clever. I wanted to burn the hut or the old ship to make a great big fire, but all I needed was a little fire in the location where you start the game. Why there? When I look at the ocean, I see a ship from that location.
- The game only has 3 parts, and I've completed the first.
- This tweet from 2013 by Brian Fargo, CEO of Interplay Productions, mentions Ayman Adham as programmer on Mindshadow:
Another bit of trivia: I hired the eventual founder of Blizzard, Ayman Adham to program for me on Mindshadow.
2015-09-29
2018-11-12