[Coco] new CoCo games

[Jim Cox]

Roger:

I can tell you that there is interest here in Bellevue, 
WA. (just South of Redmond :)

What are the chance of porting it to Windows/DOS?

-Jim

On Sat, 13 May 2006 20:07:10 -0500
  Roger Taylor <webmaster at coco3.com> wrote:
> 
> Has anybody been working on a new CoCo game lately?  Do 
>you have any old unfinished projects that you might want 
>to revive?  I think we could use some new games on the 
>scene.
> 
> Last year I started the graphics for a game I really 
>wanted to complete, nicknamed "Microsloth Mission".  It 
>would be a graphics/text adventure where you had to 
>infiltrate the Microsloth headquarters and find "Bill 
>Kates" or some other mission like recover a secret CoCo 
>floppy disk, etc.
> 
> Because I was a huge fan of the Interbank Incident game, 
>I wanted this game to act similar with a mouse-driven 
>environment where you pick up your inventory and drop it 
>on the screen or vice-versa... grab it from the screen 
>and it goes into your inventory area.  Also would be 
>buttons for Up, Down, Left, Right, Talk, a Hand, etc.
> 
> I finished some of the graphics which are the campus 
>entrance, the lobby/reception desk, the hallway, elevator 
>entrance, an office, etc. and the human figures that 
>would occupy the building, which are about 5 famales, 5 
>males, and Billy Boy himself complete with glasses.  None 
>of the code has been written and hardly any of the game's 
>interactive objects have been drawn that will be placed 
>around the headquarters, other than the people and a few 
>objects.
> 
> If I attempt to finish this game it could take a few 
>months to complete.  Is there any interest in such a 
>game?
> 
> 
> 
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