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The Serpent's Star

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Developer(s)
  
Ultrasoft

Publisher
  
Brøderbund Software

Initial release date
  
1985

Mode
  
Single-player video game

Genre(s)
  
Text Adventure with graphics

Platforms
  
Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family

Similar
  
Brøderbund Software games, Interactive fiction games

The Serpent's Star is an interactive fiction computer game with graphics. The adventure game is the sequel to the adventure The Mask of the Sun. It was developed by Ultrasoft in 1983 and published by Brøderbund in 1985.

Contents

Gameplay and Plot

The single-player adventure is controlled via typed keyboard commands. Words and simple sentences are entered in a text parser.

The plot takes place in Tibet. The player named Mac Steele is an archaeologist, who tries to find a valuable diamond called "The Serpent's Star". He needs 13 scrolls, which provide advice to the diamonds hideout in the town of Kara-Koram. Therefore, Mac Steele has to travel through Tibet, to solve a lot of puzzles and to meet other non-player characters, e.g. Buddhist monks.

Development and Reception

The adventure has partly animated 2d graphics and contains some music. It was implemented for C 64, Apple II and Atari 8-bit family. The game is the sequel to the adventure The Mask of the Sun. It was developed by Ultrasoft (1983), published by Brøderbund (1985) and written by Scott Shumway.

Softline stated that "if you liked Mask of the Sun, you'll probably like Serpent's Star. Most of us did".Antic called The Serpent's Star "a good, challenging game". A German reviewer praised the thrilling, atmospheric storyline, the complexity of the riddles and the nice graphics.

References

The Serpent's Star Wikipedia