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Architecture: 68k
The Madness of Roland
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| Author: | Greg Roach |
| Publisher: | Hyperbole Studios |
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Download Madness_of_Roland.cdr_.sit
(270.50 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
Billed as "The world's first interactive multimedia novel", Madness of Roland brilliantly fulfills the latter half of its claim (i.e. "multimedia novel") while dismally failing the first (i.e. "interactive").
External Download
For Mac OS 7 - Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 7 - Mac OS 9
As celebrated designer Chris Crawford notes in his critical-but-insightful review of the game, [designer Greg] Roach has created an art film whose commercial value arises from the novelty of the medium he has chosen. He has not created an interactive novel, or an interactive anything. Despite the obvious artistry of his creation, it does not show us anything about how to make interactive art.
Based on the legend of the Paladin Roland, a knight in the service of Charlemagne, the tale of Madness of Roland is told from multiple points of view which you can select at will. Each character tells their own, often contradictory, version of the story. Roland uses text, digital color paintings, animation, QuickTime video, professional "radio theatre" narration, hypertextual links and a complete original soundtrack to transport you to the world of Charlemagne's France.
Description source: "Home Of The Underdogs/Madness Of Roland", which includes a download for Windows.
Read more at Answers.com, Free-game-downloads.mosw.com/, and Eli's Software Encyclopedia
and Hyperbole.com/roland
Architecture: 68k
System requirements:68020 processor (68040 recommended), 5MB RAM, 1 MB hard disk space, 12" monitor, double speed CD-ROM drive.
Includes three Install options: 9" b/w, 12" color, 13" color.
Comments
This still seems to be for sale by the publishers. See http://www.hyperbole.com/full/cs/order.html
i dont know even know what interactive art is, much less how to make it, but this multimedia game doesnt sound like a "novel" idea. (pun intended...lmao!) the title is the catchiest part of it all. i dont know, but somehow i thought a game called "madness of" followed by an obscure name like roland would be alot more of an kick-ass action game and less of a sucky-soundin rpg game(those are corny to me, but maybe thats just me though)
As a multimedia novel, this works rather well. The videos and text that accompany most chapters (click on the sun and the moon to get them) certainly create an atmosphere for each chapter. I also like the multiple points of view in each chapter. It's very tedious to click on all of the underlined text in each chapter, though if you aren't familiar with some of the terms they're helpfully defined by the pop-up windows. At other times the underlined text-popup window just adds in other text that could have been incorporated into the main chapter by a more skillful writer. I found this very interesting, though, and I've bookmarked it. Even though they say it's onging, does anyone know if they've really been updating it?
A free online fiction in which Users may lose themselves whilst I prepare my laser for the disassembling of their molecules. Excellent. End of line.
Guys, where is the link? I not found.
thk's a lot.
The first .cdr image I created wasn't readable by Mini vMac, but this one has been re-created using Toast by 'Data disk/Mac only/HFS Standard option' and is readable by Mini vMac.
This version runs in Mini vMac Mac Plus emulation, in 2 colors, too.
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