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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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From Exemplary Game Magic Systems to Code Recipes 61
Once the set of objects, attributes, and states has been dened, they can
then be expressed as a language. With these verbs, nouns, and adjectives in
mind, players can input a variety of simple two and three word sentences,
which function as spells (Table3.3).
3.12 ULTIMA VIII
While the Ultima Underworld games move spellcasting to a primarily
rune-based, linguistic system, Ultima VIII: Pagan oers a strikingly
nuanced and rich magic system which might actually be classied as
multiple magic systems, including sorcery, tempestry, theurgy, necro-
mancy, and thaumaturgy. As game desig
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ISBN: 9781466567870