STAR JOURNEY        Created by Jason Caballero                August 22, 1996
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Star Journey is a text-based adventure game (Hey, YOU try coming up with a
good-sci-fi type name, OK?!). These kinds of things were very popular back
in the '80s, when computers came with 2-color monitors. You will see a ">"
prompt and some messages; this is the story unfolding, just read it. This
sucker isn't nearly as advanced as those other all-text adventure games, and
lots of people have never played text-based adventure games ("What, no 3D 
rotoscoped texture-mapped SVGA objects?!? Get it out of my  sight!), so you
need to pay attention to a few things:

1. Universal Commands
        All text-based adventure games use the same basic commands for
        navigating the game. These include:
                LOOK (AT, IN)                   
                TAKE {object}
                USE  {object, body part}
                OPEN {object,door, prison, etc.}
                INVENTORY (or I for short!)
                RESTART (for when you mess up)
                QUIT (of course, what do you need this for, eh?)
        *NOTE: All of these commands are used in this game, although there
        are some additional commands which can be used.

2. Case Sensitivity
        Original text-based games recognized something like TAkE guN as
        being: take gun
        But mine is case sensitive (not on purpose) and you should type
        everything with CAPS Lock either on or off--NEVER do something like
        this: Take gun, or TAKE gun, or Take Gun.
        DO this: take gun OR TAKE GUN
        We'll all be happier this way.
        Also, Star Journey doesn't recognize fragments of commands. So, if
        type LOOK AT SADFASD it won't know that you are trying to look at
        something (sorry!).

3. LOOK Everywhere!
        Okay, so this is a small game. If you type slow, it might take a
        whole ten minutes to beat. But, that doesn't mean you can ignore a
        fundamental rule of adventure games (ALL adventure-games, graphically
        challenged or not). Type LOOK wherever you go, and look at any
        objects which seem interesting.


This game was written in Pascal, using Borland Pascal 7.0.

You down-loaded this game from:

http://tqd.advanced.org/2847/homepage.htm

I hope to put out some more, better stuff, so stop by if you like (heck, stop
by anyway--that's a great site).


This game is SHAREWARE! After your 25-second trial period is over, you are
required to send a $0.01 registration fee to:

                                Jason Caballero
                                1800 First St.
                                Middle, Nowhere     01234-5678

                                Thanks for your support!