{"id":927,"date":"2018-11-02T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T20:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/blog\/?page_id=927"},"modified":"2024-02-20T20:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:14:29","slug":"the-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prior Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game&#8217;s full title is:<\/p>\r\n<h1>&#8220;<em>Realms of Antiquity: The Shattered Crown<\/em>&#8220;<\/h1>\r\n<p>The design has been inspired by some particular games:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em>Ultima<\/em>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>(in particular <em>Ultima IV <\/em>and<em> Ultima V<\/em>)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><em>Tunnels of Doom<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li><em>Legends <\/em>(and by extension <em>Phantasie<\/em>)<\/li>\r\n<li><em>Avernum<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Features:<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A party of up to four characters\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Characters can be created at the start<\/li>\r\n<li>Characters can be found in game as well<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Four primary attributes\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Used to determine secondary attributes and other factors<\/li>\r\n<li>Mostly static, can be raised in game with certain items<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Two secondary attributes\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Health (your basic hit point)<\/li>\r\n<li>Stamina (energy for combat, spells, etc)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Nine character classes\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Classic fighter, wizard and rogue from Tunnels of Doom<\/li>\r\n<li>Hero class available for players who start with a party of one<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Eight schools of magic\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>60 different spells<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>250+ different items<\/li>\r\n<li>Characters can level up to 16 in game\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Experience gained from both questing and monster slaying<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Scrolling maps\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Line-of-sight blocking<\/li>\r\n<li>Elevation<\/li>\r\n<li>Light<\/li>\r\n<li>Wrapping and edged maps<\/li>\r\n<li>Slanted maps<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>High-color graphics\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>For the TI, this is &#8220;bitmap mode&#8221; which permits 2 colors for every row of 8 pixels in a character<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Equipment\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Players can equip a variety of items\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Melee weapons<\/li>\r\n<li>Ranged weapons\/ammo<\/li>\r\n<li>Off-hand items like shields and &#8220;foci&#8221;, rogues can use weapons in the offhand<\/li>\r\n<li>Armor<\/li>\r\n<li>Spellbook<\/li>\r\n<li>Trinkets<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Inventory\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Each character has a backpack capable of 10 item capacity<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Tactical Combat\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Turn-based<\/li>\r\n<li>Battlemaps generated randomly for every combat<\/li>\r\n<li>Melee\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Thrown weapons<\/li>\r\n<li>Reach weapons<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Ranged\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Several different forms of weapon types and ammunition<\/li>\r\n<li>Wands are &#8220;infinite&#8221; use<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Spells\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Can be targeted in multiple ways\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>On single units<\/li>\r\n<li>On locations<\/li>\r\n<li>On multiple units<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Summoned creatures<\/li>\r\n<li>225+ monsters\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Multiple monster types per battle possible<\/li>\r\n<li>Some are &#8220;bosses&#8221;, double-sized<\/li>\r\n<li>Monsters can have ranged attack and &#8220;special attacks&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Treasure\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Only intelligent monsters have coins and items<\/li>\r\n<li>Items are in chests which must be checked for traps<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Requirements:<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A Windows PC (for the provided Classic99 implementation)<\/li>\r\n<li>A modern PC running a A TI-99\/4a emulator capable of SAMS support:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Classic99<\/li>\r\n<li>MAME<\/li>\r\n<li>PC99<\/li>\r\n<li>JS99er<\/li>\r\n<li>V9T9 (? Need to verify SAMS support)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>A TI-99\/4a home computer with the following:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>One of the three:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Extended BASIC, Editor\/Assembler, or TI Writer cartridge<\/li>\r\n<li>FinalGROM99 to support a custom cartridge ROM image<\/li>\r\n<li>Or use a provided cartridge<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>SAMS memory system with at least 256KB of RAM<\/li>\r\n<li>Disk system capable of at least 180K of space per disk\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>TIPI compatible<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Color monitor\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>You STILL have a monochrome?! It&#8217;s the 21st century&#8230;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game&#8217;s full title is: &#8220;Realms of Antiquity: The Shattered Crown&#8220; The design has been inspired by some particular games: Ultima (in particular Ultima IV and Ultima V) Tunnels of Doom Legends (and by extension Phantasie) Avernum Features: A party &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/the-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgaeMJ-eX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}