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		It does so in such a beautiful way, always keeping the game open and making the player the center of the game-world, so that it is the player who writes the story; it is he who synchronizes the unbelievable chain of events.
		It is one of the few games where the puzzles and riddles actually enhance the atmosphere and enrich the dramatic content of the narative than threaten it.
		Curses is not a game to be solved in a couple of hours.
	efault.net /npat/docs_and_postings/curses-review/curses-review.txt (962 words)

	Curses (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curses is an interactive fiction computer game created by Graham Nelson in 1993.
		The player takes the part of a young English aristocrat, who in the course of searching the attic for an old tourist map of Paris steps into a surreal adventure to uncover a curse that has been placed on the family.
		In-game hints provided by a demon who gives consistently misleading answers ("No, Hell itself is a marvellous place, and it has an excellent health club too.").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curses_(computer_game) (349 words)

	Palm Games: Interactive fiction
		If you're a personal computing veteran, you may remember a type of computer game called "interactive fiction." These were written stories in which you interacted with, and changed, the story by telling the main character what to do.
		The game installation process is slightly involved; you need to know how to put the files in the appropriate directory on your memory card.
		For some of the games, there are also text files giving hints on how to solve the puzzles.
	www.palmsource.com /interests/games_if (1460 words)

	Magic: The Gathering
		Now the game has been delayed and rebuilt to emerge as a game with the potential to be the next mega-hit.
		Microprose’s Magic: The Gathering the computer game is based upon a trading card game of the same name which is the property of Wizards of the Coast (www.wizards.com).
		This is a game that many take as serious as chess, there are innumerable tournaments and a multiplayer game would allow players from all over the world to compete with people more near their skill level.
	www.thecomputershow.com /computershow/previews/magicthegathering.htm (1126 words)

	Introduction to UI programming with curses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Curses knows the capabilities of each terminal emulator, and will use those capabilities transperantly to further reduce flicker by using high-level operations implemented by the terminal to commit the changes where possible.
		One of the features curses provides is to notify the terminal emulator to provide characters from directly to the application (reading standard input only via curses, hopefully), so that it can do full-screen applications which respond immediately to key presses.
		So, to give a curses program an ability to multiplex without using threading, it is enough to replace getchar with simple call to select against the 0 file descriptor and whatever other connections or files that need to be read from or written too.
	www.iglu.org.il /old-zope-articles/966442575.html (1458 words)

	Review: Curses
		It's one of those games which'll be remembered by future generations as one of the defining games of its era.
		The game can be taken as a humorous slice-of-life type of text adventure for much of the early going - the perceived "curses" and dream sequences could be all taken as part of the humor rather than as serious concerns that the player must analyze carefully.
		The game is designed in such a way that is pleasing but yet quite indicative of the time in which it was made.
	www.joltcountry.com /trottingkrips/curses.html (2135 words)

	The Sims Bustin' Out for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 The Sims Bustin' Out Review
		The second game in the series for the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, The Sims Bustin' Out, successfully expands on the previous game, not only by letting you make a more highly customized computerized person (or "sim"), but also by letting your sims "bust out" of their own homes and freely visit their neighbors.
		The new game's bust out mode is at once more cohesive and more varied than that of the previous game, and it certainly gets tougher as you progress.
		Bustin' Out presents the workday in the same way the PC games did: That is, your sims are required to work at certain hours of the day, during which they simply disappear from the game for several hours, only to return home later, more tired and more hungry than they were before they left.
	www.gamespot.com /ps2/strategy/thesimsbustinout/review.html (1252 words)

	Crimes Against Mimesis
		In "Curses," the various modes of time/space/reality travel separate the scenes, while the theme of the Meldrew family holds them together to some extent; and in "Jigsaw," the framing device is quite literally the frame (and pieces) of the magical jigsaw puzzle.
		Game designers would rather spend time coding a variety of locations than implementing every second-string solution to a problem like the banana one, where the most likely solution is indeed the chimp's way.
		Even today, few IF games have managed to present a protagonist whose actions are completely defined by his or her own character, rather than by the objects-and-puzzles intrigues of the game.
	www.geocities.com /aetus_kane/writing/cam.html (8184 words)

	Curses (programming library) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications.
		Sometimes it is incorrectly stated that curses was used by the vi editor.
		In fact the code in curses that optimizes moving the cursor from one place on the screen to another was borrowed from vi, which predated curses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curses_(programming_library) (321 words)

	Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Software/Games/Board
		The goal of the game is to let KhunPhan, the large game token escape by position it to the lower middle position.
		Kvirus is a board game for the KDE Environment and a clone of Ataxxlet originally written in Java.
		Robot Race is a race game in which each player attempts to be the first to touch a series of flags by maneuvering a robot across a dynamic race course.
	www.linuxlinks.com /Software/Games/Board/index.shtml (1949 words)

	Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Magic: The Gathering
		One of the best computer translation of a non-computer games ever made, MicroProse's Magic: The Gathering not only deserves a Hall of Fame status for its faithful rendition of Wizard of the Coast's blockbuster trading card game of the same name, but also for the numerous innovations that are only possible as a computer game.
		This computer game version, in contrast to the horrendous BattleMage game from Acclaim which is based on the same license, truly brings all the fun and subtleties of the card game to life via an elegant point-and-click interface and excellent graphics that does justice to the cards' original intricate artwork.
		The game also introduces a new concept of gems: which are difficult to obtain, but can be used as currency to trade for powerful, permanent artifacts that enhance your wizard's power (for instance, magical boots that lets him walk quicker than normal).
	www.the-underdogs.info /game.php?gameid=1550 (828 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - Game of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One game that may not have come to mind is a good old game called Rogue: The Adventure Game.
		Scrolls that enchant armor, remove curses, and the all-important identity scroll which tells you that a red potion causes confusion, or that a pearl ring is a ring of searching.
		If you find that text adventure games are your kind of thing, you may also want to read up on NetHack, the king of all Rogue-like games, which was inducted into the GameSpy Hall of Fame some time ago.
	www.classicgaming.com /rotw/rogue.shtml (710 words)

	Amazon.com: Scratches: Computer & Video Games: Windows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the end of the game there was a MINOR amount on one skeleton and elsewhere a tiny bit on a table.
		For the reviewers on several sites who have said this game is boring, there seems to be a common theme among them--they are game aficionados who know all the game authors, their subtle references to other games within the game, etc., etc. I'm not that type of gamer.
		I love games which let me go where I want to go, which blend in the puzzles with the story and don't bend my brain so much that I think I'm back in math class, and which are not obnoxiously hard yet are not obnoxiously easy.
	www.amazon.com /Got-Game-00045-Scratches/dp/B000E1A4XS (1970 words)

	Debian -- pente
		Pente is the English name for the Asian game ni-nuki, which itself is a version of the game go-moku.
		The game is a variant of the well known five in a row.
		You can play against the computer or another human, and there is also support for playing over a network.
	packages.debian.org /unstable/games/pente.html (157 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bambino? Billygoat? Wicked witch? What the hex! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Curse of Cain, who, according to Genesis, killed his brother Abel (the first recorded murder as well) and was told by God that he was "cursed from the earth." He was the first fugitive.
		The Curse of Shakespeare's Macbeth, whose opening-night party Aug. 7, 1606, was canceled after the boy actor playing Lady Macbeth died backstage.
		The Curse of Superman, which dates to the suicide in 1959 of George Reeves, star of the TV show.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-10-15-curses_x.htm (411 words)

	comp.sources.unix::games/board/cchess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Description: corrispondence chess CCHESS version 1.00 Corrispondence chess is a program which moderates chess games between two players on the same system.
		It sends mail to the other player telling him it is his turn to move.
		NONFEATURES: - Does not play over uucp-type nets, and would be difficult to adapt to that job, because the game transcripts are kept in a local file.
	www.isc.org /sources/games/board/cchess.php (289 words)

	Computer Programming @ Suite101.com: C+, Windows, HTML, video games, defining data types, object oriented and console ...
		This topic is devoted to choosing and using the best computer programming languages, covering the basics and helping those looking for computer programming jobs.
		We'll review manuals and books, discuss C+, Windows, HTML, video game programming, explore strings and loops, handling memory issues, SQL server training, defining data types, object oriented programming, variables, console or command line programming, compilers, javascript, free downloads and tools and create a glossary of programming languages.
		Learning curses programming need not be overly complex as long as the basics are understood.
	computerprogramming.suite101.com (645 words)

	Related Game Sites for Curses
		Game Trading Zone ; a site specializing in trading computer games; useful if you want to trade one of your games for Curses.
		There are 6 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.
		There are no game credits on file for this release of the game.
	www.mobygames.com /game/linux/curses/links (213 words)

	Javascript Game Scripts with Example Source Code
		Thing is, you can only move one disk at a time and you must follow size order (a bigger disk can't go on a smaller disk).
		The computer will think of a random number between 0 and 49.
		An interesting little JavaScript game where you try to leave only one peg by jumping one over another and removing the 'jumped' peg.
	www.jsmadeeasy.com /javascripts/Games/list_test.asp (1120 words)

	Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft
		Fan-created content for the sequel to that game, Sims 2, contained modifications that persisted and were inadvertently transferred from player to player creating string of virus-like effects.
		Last week, the game's developer Blizzard Entertainment rushed out a patch that limited the ability to infect others to only within the specific adventuring area known as a dungeon, a move which contained the disease to at most 20 characters.
		The online roleplaying game equivalent to terrorists, griefers would teleport their characters to inhabited areas or used their pets as plague carriers to spread the disease to the general population of a server, according to postings on various community sites.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/11330 (1011 words)

	Game Masters - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
		I could also see the role of a GM being an almost entirely separate game in itself, perhaps with a progression scheme in place as mentioned earlier, such that players can give the GM experience points back if they liked their adventure.
		The game is far from completion, though if you have ever seen any of my other posts, I do currently have a level editor in progress that will form the core of my game.
		There could be a list of the best GMs in the game for bragging purposes, but enabling a better GM to do more stuff or hand out better items would probably hurt the game.
	www.gamedev.net /community/forums/viewreply.asp?ID=1480929 (2596 words)

	Call of Duty 2 Trailer - GameArena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Every dev should have their QA guys do the trailer shots, they're usually the ones with the skills from playing the game 8 hours a day.
		Awsome graphics...but i hate the fact that they didn't put ragdoll physics into the game, scripted deaths are just old and crap now.
		Consoles are only good as the age old hardware in them, and although the new xbox may be cutting edge now, it will be old hat in a couple of years with PC technology far surpassing it.
	www.gamearena.com.au /pc/news/read/3262017 (793 words)

	Non-Review: The Messenger (Louvre: The Final Curse)
		The game concerns a woman who receives a message from her father: go to the Louvre and steal four artifacts, or else.
		It must take a deep and thorough knowledge of the balances of game design -- the give-and-take of surprise, logic, and revelation -- to construct a clue which is such a perfect let-down.
		The game will not start up unless disk 1 is in the drive.
	www.eblong.com /zarf/gamerev/messenger.html (1552 words)

	"ALIENS VS. PREDATOR"/ a game review from Christian Spotlight
		As the Alien, you are defending your Temple, and the young of your hive from invading humans.
		However in the campaign of this game, the Predator is seeking to rescue a fellow hunter who was captured (we found out later, for hideous experiments done on him by the military).
		If you see this game, be sure to buy the GOLD EDITION, which fixes many of the problems of the initial release, adding a mid-level save feature, extra maps, and a strategy guide (it's a tough game).
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/games/2000/aliensvspredator.html (1196 words)

	GamersInfo.net - PC - Oasis
		As you progress, the game adds a bit more strategy to the mix: do you focus your troops in the first city to be attacked, or do you sacrifice a few cities, and give the barbarians a combat bonus, in order to focus your troops on a city with a higher combat bonus?
		The game is really fun at the Normal level; it's challenging, but you feel that you can master the level with a smart strategy.
		It was around graduation in college when I realized that a career in the game industry might be a good fit for me. After working in a boring corporate job for a bit and thoroughly hating it, I started looking for work in the industry.
	www.gamersinfo.net /index.php?art/id:953 (1868 words)

	Review: Star Trek: Hidden Evil for PC on Gamepro.com.
		The bulk of the game is a classic adventure in the format pioneered by Sierra's various Quest games.
		Some of the puzzles, the meat and drink of an adventure game, are interesting and require thought and attention to the details of the environment.
		In one sequence, Sovok reprograms a flying robot drone to help him; it's a good idea, but finding and accessing the reprogramming station was a random "look under every rock" discovery rather than a logical conclusion to a string of clues.
	www.gamepro.com /computer/pc/games/reviews/4893.shtml (536 words)

	A Brief History of "Rogue"
		The classic computer game "Rogue" was developed over a a period of a few years by a number of people.
		The main home computers at this time were the Atari 400/800, the Commodore 64, and the Apple II (No Macintosh, and hardly any IBM PC's at the time).
		Most of the existing adventure-type games had "canned" adventures -- they were exactly the same every time you played, and of course the programmers had to invent all of the puzzles, and therefore would always know how to beat the game.
	www.wichman.org /roguehistory.html (1285 words)

	Technology: Game reviews
		If the world of video games moves too fast for you, consider taking things down a notch with Mindscape's latest version of Chessmaster.
		Chessmaster 2 is without a doubt the best chess game you can buy for a game system.
		In fact this game, besides being a thoroughly enjoyable romp through 13 futuristic levels, has some serious attitude that will endear Tiny to both kids and adults.
	www.sptimes.com /News/110199/Technology/Game_reviews.shtml (338 words)

	TIME \| CNN: Our Interactive World \| Entertainment \| Where Does Fantasy End?
		But what makes the game so addictive is its complex feudal environment, which hooks players after they invest days or weeks building up the strength of their online characters.
		The game has also caught on with the loan-sharking gangsters active in the Korean entertainment industry.
		Authorities say three types of crime are common in the game: hacking into others' accounts to steal weapons, stealing users' online identification and fraud connected to the sale of virtual arms.
	www.time.com /time/interactive/entertainment/gangs_np.html (1841 words)

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