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h2. Quest For Sorcery
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h2. History

Quest For Sorcery was one of the earliest 

History

Quest For Sorcery was one of the earliest add-ons

for

The

Major

BBS

.

It

was

written

sometime

in

the

first

half

of

1987

and

possibly

very

late

1986.

It

came

after

Fazuul

and

Quest

For

Magic

,

but

was

likely

before

Quest

of

the

Alchemists

.

Scott

Brinker

was

not

satisfied

with

the

results,

so

he

quickly

began

work

on

Quest

For

Sorcery

II

.

We

know

that

the

game

was

built

on

the

same

source

code

platform

as

Fazuul

,

Quest

For

Magic

,

and

Quest

of

the

Alchemists

.

We

don't,

unfortunately,

know

much

more

than

that.

When

Scott

Brinker

was

asked

about

these

games

he

said

"As

I

recall

Quest

for

Sorcery

didn't

stay

around

long.

I

wasn't

very

happy

with

the

game,

which

was

sort

of

a

sequel

to

Quest

For

Magic,

but...

I

don't

know,

it

just

never

really

gelled.

Shortly

after

it

came

out,

I

wrote

Quest

for

Sorcery

II."

We

desperately

need

a

copy

of

this

game,

and

hopefully

some

sysop

from

1987-8

era

has

a

copy

in

a

box

of

floppies

somewhere.

Game Information

Sadly,

not

much

is

known

about

the

plot

and

story

line

of

this

game.

Gameplay

Gameplay within Quest For Sorcery is fairly typical of text "adventure"

games

(now

more

commonly

called

interactive

fiction

games)

like

Zork,

Colossal

Cave,

etc;

and

MUD

games,

like

Dungeon,

Rogue,

etc.

Players

issue

simple

verb-noun

command

pairs,

such

as

"north",

"get

object",

"mix

object1

object2",

etc.

Players

can

interact

with

other

players

in

the

game,

as

well.