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To add to the entertainment stew, Adams believes we are on the verge of a 'post post-literate' era anyway - thanks to the Internet. 'The only reason we need to call new media interactive at all is to differentiate it from print, which isn't!' He suggests that before print all story- telling - on stage or round the camp fire - was interactive in the sense the audience shouted questions and suggestions to the story- teller. Now, they think it's going to do the same thing.'Īdams's belief is that the interaction involved in new media is returning people to ancient forms of entertainment. Then, they believed the coming of print heralded the end of story-telling. Douglas Adamss Starship Titanic by Jones Terry from. 'Those who bemoan the death of print culture are the 20th century equivalents of those who feared its arrival all those centuries ago. So it follows that Adams has little time for the doom-mongers who condemn new media for heralding the decline of the printed page. And that is where the game comes into its own. Of course, the comedy invested in these characters only comes to light when the player interacts with them. There is the dreaded liftbot who drones on about the war, the Maitre D bot who is charm itself until contradicted, and even a talking bomb who becomes furious when he loses count. All except one (a parrot, in fact) are robots who display that familiar Adamsian mixture of bureaucratic incompetence and British rudeness. The Starship Titanic is filled with appalling characters like that. The attendant's response to his pleas was a withering 'Oh yeah, and whose budget will that come out of?'

On arrival at the airport he found it had not. He is an old man now, and the creation of the Starship Titanic is the pinnacle achievement of his twenty-year career. But less provincial onlookers would recognize it as the design of Leovinus, the galaxy's most renowned architect.

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He was sent standard tickets but was told an upgrade had been arranged. An earthling would see it as a mixture of the Chrysler Building, the tomb of Tutankhamen, and Venice. Adams found inspiration for this key element of the game when he was asked to fly to Australia for a promotional event and agreed, provided he could go first class (not as avaricious as it sounds - Adams is 6ft 4ins tall and so does not exactly fit into an economy-class seat).

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Related works: A Tie – Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic ( 1997), by Terry Jones – was published based on the game, with a rather more developed plot.Player motivation is provided by 'one of the most powerful forces known to man' - the desire for a free upgrade. While Starship Titanic has many excellent parts – including impressive art deco visuals and numerous moments of genuine hilarity – the whole is, perhaps, less than their sum. The plot, however, is remarkably predictable, many of the puzzles seem arbitrary, and technical limitations mean that the frequent conversations are often frustrating.

Such flourishes bring to mind Adams's written work, and the game contains many isolated sequences which are as amusing as anything in his novels. As soon as this has been done, the eponymous Starship crashes into their house, and the player is shanghaied by the ship's Robot crew to perform emergency repairs on their sabotaged artificial intelligences (see AI). The game begins with a markedly metafictional moment the player finds themselves in their suburban home, where they must locate a copy of Starship Titanic and load it into their computer. Starship Titanic, however, also draws heavily on the tradition of text Adventure design exemplified by such works as Planetfall ( 1982) and Adams' own The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1984), both in its tone of sometimes painful obscurity and in its use of a text parser (see Adventures) to enable conversation between the player and computer controlled characters.

As in those games, the player must move from one predefined node in space to another, and their ability to interact with the physical environment is strictly limited. Starship Titanic is a graphical Adventure which uses a first person view similar to that of Obsidian ( 1996) or The Journeyman Project ( 1993). Designed by Douglas Adams, Adam Shaikh, Emma Westecott.