Utopian Worlds(TM) -- An Overview March 5, 1995 Omega Technologies recently announced the release of Utopian Worlds - a software product for the creation of state-of-the-art, graphical adventure games. With it, you can easily draft complex adventures with a few mouse clicks. But don't worry, this is not a simplistic, limited adventure system, either, because it has the ability to conform to any type of adventure game. Read on, and you will see that it will soon become the standard for adventure gaming without limits. About ----- Adventure games created with the Utopian Worlds system can be any type of game. They can be futuristic games or classic medieval games. They can be hack-and-slash games or a thinking man's game. The entire premise of Utopian Worlds is its ability to conform. Also, adventures created with Utopian Worlds are royalty-free, meaning that you can distribute them however you wish: for fun or profit. Utopian Worlds enables the creation of adventure games with in-depth, quality storylines. You can create a variety of people who converse, puzzles and hostile monsters and then use them in your adventures. You can create entire villages, countries and worlds with stunning graphic detail. You can customize houses, churches and taverns, populating them with exciting, vivacious people. You can use full motion video, sound bites and music in your adventures. In a robust point-and-click environment, you can assemble these parts to create whole civilizations and worlds that adapt to your imagination. This is adventure gaming without limits! Old style adventure games require you to follow a given path. They provide the world and you merely experience it. But, imagine creating the world and then letting your friends and colleagues experience it! And when you're done with one adventure, you can create more and more unlike old style adventure games that are done once you've finished the game. Unlike some adventure creation systems, Utopian Worlds is user friendly! That's right, you can immediately sit down with the Utopian Worlds package and begin to create your very first world. There are no ugly text screens and no arcane codes. Since Utopian Worlds is a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) application, you'll know how to use it immediately. But if you need it, complete online help is always just a keystroke away. How it Works - Features ------------ Utopian Worlds is based on a wide variety of components. Each adventure you create is an assemblage of components and you will see that there is a component to suit nearly every adventure creator's need. Each component is also reusable, so you can create general purpose components and then use them in future adventures that you create. Better yet, you can create component libraries and distribute them over the Internet! Most components provide you with opportunities to insert multimedia and scripting wherever possible, giving you complete freedom over what happens during the course of your adventure. Here's just a sampling of component types: MAP: The Map component defines the landscape of the adventure. You can define links on each map to other maps you have created. In this manner, you can create multiple houses on one map (a village) and then define a separate map for each house. ENTITY: the Entity component defines a living person or monster. Entities are powerful components because they can carry on conversations with the user! These aren't one or two line 'clues,' either. The user actually directs the flow of conversation. If this doesn't suit you, it's easy to simulate one or two line sayings. It's up to you! Of course, there are types defining items for any purpose - fighting, bargaining or unlocking doors. There are types defining item recipes where one item plus another yields yet another item. There are types for time-based events, giving your adventures a realistic feel. You can define a certain action to happen only after the user has done a specific action or after a predefined time period. User friendly adventures don't have to be static anymore! Utopian Worlds is also an info expert. It can process and display many different data types, allowing you the freedom to use whatever type of information is appropriate to your adventure. Utopian Worlds also gives you the freedom to choose when you want to display information. You can display when the user steps somewhere specific or when the user asks for it. Tie the informational display to a time-based event, and you can display information after a specified time! That's power! When the user reads a book, up pops a sophisticated hypertext file! Or even a movie! You can include hypertext files, because Utopian Worlds supports Windows Help files. Want fonts and styles in your text? Utopian Worlds can handle Windows Write format. Be on the cutting edge and include a video clip. Utopian Worlds is flexible. "What about story?!", you ask. And you should. The key to any good adventure game is its storyline. With a constricting system, you could be out in the cold. You may be stuck with just displaying graphics, or have no chance whatsoever to define a decent storyline! Not so with Utopian Worlds. Utopian Worlds provides you with power to foster and create story. You can do this by displaying ancient tomes of wisdom (in Windows Write format), decaying scrolls (hypertext, of course) or the voice of the gods (Wave audio). Best of all, Utopian Worlds lets you annotate nearly every component with your words. For many, words are the most powerful way to create story; they are even better than pictures. That is why books often have more impact than feature length movies. You can describe items with intricate detail instead of just one or two words. Describe grass not as "grass" but as "lush grass sparkling with pearls of dew." On the technical side of things, Utopian Worlds gives you power to create. Utopian Worlds provides you with an unlimited framework for your adventure games and an escape hatch, the script language. Now you have the power to create worlds with your imagination... and a copy of Utopian Worlds. Utopian Worlds - Adventure Gaming... without limits! Copyright(c) 1994 James Payne ----- The Offer: For a limited time, Utopian Worlds is available directly over the Internet! Of course, there is an irresistable deal to accompany it. Utopian Worlds normally retails for $59.99, but this introductory offer reduces that to $49.99! This is a small price to pay for an infinite array of adventure possibilities and years of constant playing. Experience the world of adventure gaming - without limits! But wait, there's more! If you order now, you can have _three_ free copies of the Utopian Worlds adventure player module. You can give them to your friends so they can play your adventures! If you have more than three friends, it is easy to purchase extra adventure player modules for just $9.95 each. Ordering: If you like what you've read and you want to sink your teeth into the new world of adventure gaming, then order today! Be sure to attach a description of what you are ordering (Utopian Worlds, adventure player modules, etc.) 1. By Electronic Mail: simply write e-mail to uworlds@aol.com containing your name, mailing address and Visa/Mastercard number and expiration date. You will not be billed until your order is shipped. 2. By FAX: fax your name, mailing address and Visa/Mastercard number and expiration date to (508)-435-2617. Again, you will not be billed until your order is shipped. 3. By US Mail: this is the only way to order by check or money order. Mail your name, mailing address and a check, money order or your Visa/Mastercard number and expiration date to: Omega Technologies Utopian Worlds Offer N1 5 Daniel Road Hopkinton, MA 01748-2434 In all cases, your order will be promptly shipped, but please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery. Remember to add a $4.95 shipping and handling charge and a sales tax of 5% in Massachusetts. Thanks! Thank you for your interest in Utopian Worlds and also thank you for your order. We know that you'll love being part of the new world of adventure gaming, and that world is an unlimited one. Enjoy! Questions? Comments? Please contact us at uworlds@aol.com! We'd love to hear from you! 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