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The Sword Dream Home Page

[Image]This is the home page for Sword Dream 3D, the best role playing game for the Macintosh and Mac OS compatible computers. Sword Dream is shareware: you can download a copy for free, try it, and pay only if you like it. The current version is v2.1, and is available in your choice of English, French or Italian, and you can download it from this site - just scroll to the Index and make a choice.

What's new?

In our spare time, we are working on Dream 2.2. The new version will also sport the new, enhanced user interface for users of Mac OS 8. Unluckily, our spare time is exceedingly few, and we can't promise any release date.

The address of the project leader for Sword Dream recently changed. You'll find it here. Please note that the addresses listed in the game and the documentation are now obsolete.

This page was last revised on September 17, 1998. This WWW site is updated irregularly - every time a new scenario appears or a new release is ready. We suggest that you employ an Internet service, such as the free PageWatch, to be notified of changes.

Index

  1. Welcome
  2. What is Sword Dream?
  3. Spec sheet
  4. Download the Sword Dream software
  5. Available languages
  6. Download the freely-available scenarios
  7. ScenarioMaker and development of a scenario
  8. How to contact the authors
  9. Technical notes for scenario developers
  10. Frequently Asked Questions

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Welcome, adventurer!

Welcome!Welcome, adventurer!

We hope you'll pass many enjoyable hours with the Dream gaming system. In here, you'll explore dark ruins and deep forests; save beautiful princesses and endangered realms; amass vast amounts of gold and jewellery; kill hideous monsters.

More than anything else, you'll impersonate a powerful character, and decide how he or she will move and react in the fantasy world of the Dream. (You can choose to move more than one character, up to a maximum of eight. More that one character may be required to solve difficult situations which call for a group effort).

What is Dream?

Dream is an open-ended role playing game for the Macintosh computer.

There's no fixed end to the game (well, you can get killed if you try hard, but we discourage you from doing so). Your objective isn't fixed: you may try to get rich, or powerful, or famous. (Just a suggestion: try all of them!)

A unique characteristic of the Dream gaming system is its openness. You aren't limited to a single adventure, as is common with similar games: the character(s) you'll create can grow in power and wealth playing different adventures, created by different people around the world. Anybody with a minimum of imagination and technical experience can create gaming adventures for use with the Dream gaming system. No programming experience is required, and there are no fees whatsoever to be paid.

Sword Dream 3D spec sheet - facts and figures

Here's a very short fact sheet.

  • 3D, real time subjective gameplay (you can see a preview)
  • Macintosh interface: to see a character's stats you double click on his icon, and a window appears. To exchange an object between characters, you drag and drop the item's icon. To learn spells, you drag them to the character.
  • Auto-mapping
  • Full-featured soundtrack (requires QuickTime v2.0 - the QuickTime Musical Instruments are strongly suggested, and version 2.5 or greater of the Quicktime extension gives the best results).
  • Supports the Speech Synthesis software (aka PlainTalk) from Apple: persons met in the game speak (the text is also shown in a window).
  • Supports AppleScript: most moves can be scripted.
  • Supports PlainTalk speech recognition.
  • Sound and speech are asynchronous, and the game continues while they are played.
  • Adventures (game scenarios) are totally independent from the application code and can be interlocked. Six scenarios are currently available and more are planned.
  • Up to 8 characters per group. There are six character classes (fighter, ranger, paladin, rogue, wizard and cleric), each with special abilities and/or spells.
  • Runs at native speed on PowerPC Macintosh compatible computers;
  • Runs on multiple screen systems; supports and takes advantage of such configurations and big screens;
  • 32-bit compatible;
  • Supports all screen depths. (256 color screen, or better, is strongly suggested).
  • System requirements: Apple Macintosh with 68040 or better; 13" screen (Dream takes advantage of larger monitors); QuickTime; System 7.0 or later; 4 MB of RAM for the application.