AdventureWriter

Information

Genre

Adventure - Construction Kit

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Keyboard

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Yeandle, Graeme

Graphic Artist(s)

[n/a]

Sound

[n/a]

Cover Artist(s)

[unknown]

Year

1985

Publisher

Sofitec

Developer

Gilsoft

Country

France

License

Commercial

Medium

Disk

Rarity

9

Serial

?

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.4/10 · Votes: 14 · Downloads: 1,796 · Hits: 8,128

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Comments (10)

• Muffy St. Bernard — 10 Oct 2014

  Hawthorn, it's here: http://mocagh.org/miscgame/advwriter-manual.pdf It's for the Apple II but it looks identical to the one I remember for the Atari, right down to that wacky font.

• Hawthorn — 27 Sept 2014

  Could anyone post the docs to this program? Or tell me where to get them? I'd love to try to resurrect this game and write an adventure for it.

• Muffy St. Bernard — 12 Oct 2007

  Well John, you were responsible for a LOT of wasted time during my childhood! And I can't thank y'all enough.

• John — 12 Oct 2007

  Wow I cannot believe I came across this site! Back in 1983 I was one of the US developers of the AdventureWriter system for CodeWriter Corp. The owner of our company had a relationship with the folks in Europe who did the Quill system and we converted/translated it over to the Atari, Commodore 64, Apple, and early 8086 IBM machines. What a blast from the past. Oh and by the way... color text was a sacrifice we had to make for the Atari conversion Muffy lol.

• eppy2000 — 2 Oct 2007

  I really enjoyed using this program; it gave me a better appreciation of how time consuming it can be for the folks at Infocom! I always loved mapping the game out and writing the room descriptions and smart-ass responses. But I disliked parts that required "programming," albeit it was minimal. Half the time, I couldn't get the logic routines right and made the game too winnable (or vice versa!). Writing out the sound routine wasn't hard since I was used to doing that in BASIC all the time.

• Pengwin — 23 Jul 2007

  An excellent package. I have an original copy, thanks to the guys at Atarimania, and it allows me to compose an adventure on my A8, and then enter the data exactly the same way into The Quill to port the games to the Spectrum. The documentation is better than The Quill's, and the packaging of a higher quality (in my opinion). 10/10 to Gilsoft and Codewriter Corp for this gem.

• Muffy St. Bernard — 30 Apr 2007

  The best! Though the sample adventure was lame (complete with inverse-character nouns) you could create some quite sophisticated games, provided you didn't mind the two-word parser. A great collection of "conditions" and "reactions" gave you control over the game world; if you were smart and had a high tedium-threshold you could even create rudimentary creature AI. Plus you could compile your adventures and share them with people who didn't own AdventureWriter. Sadly only the Commodore users got colour text. I still have the dog-eared manual, a remnant of happy days spent writing the Next Big Adventure Game.

• FastRobPlus — 20 Jan 2007

  As a previous commentor mentions, this utility was called The Quill in Europe. The name was changed for the US release.

• Mr. T. — 15 Jan 2006

  I am one of the developers for Codewriter Corp and did scome cleanup work on Adventurewriter for the IBM PC version. Codewriter is the publisher of the software. It was bought from Gilsoft, and then we (Codewriter) spiced it up a bit, wrote the documentation, etc.

• John E. — 5 Apr 2004

  I wonder if anyone ever realised how close this was to 'The Quill' adventure writing system that was created for the Spectrum. All the commands were the same, and the only difference I noticed is that we got one extra (PLACE obj# loc# if I remember correctly). We could have had so many more adventures for our Atari because the Spectrum has hundreds that were written with 'The Quill' and to convert them would just be a matter of entering the same commands into 'Adventure Writer' as you did 'The Quill'!