I have recorded nearly an entire ADOM game
using Demo Workshop. The game crashed after
I killed Sharad. I don't think I will be
attempting this again, because I dread to
lose more promising characters. So I have
chopped up this screen.rec file into size
managable parts.
Each part is about 1 MB big, but I tried not
to interupt any quest in the middle, so some
chunks are a bit longer than others. Because
they are in .rec format, you need to have
Demo Workshop to veiw them. It's only about
200 K, and it will let you fast forward. All
videos run about 30 minutes per MB.
This game was a try at beating the game in
fewest game-turns, so it plays pretty fast.
I played with the following restrictions:
No saving (not just save-scumming, but no
saving the game at all). No praying. No
smithing. No pick pockets skill. No gremlin
cave visit. No dragon gold doubling. No
piety abuse. No casino gold. Only using the
ID long enough to get TP control.
I did role a number of gray elven wizards,
in order to start out with a spellbook of
teleportation. Also, the entire game was
played in one ~6 hour long session. There
was no pausing, and re-starting of the
recorder, so there are a few (boring) pauses
in the game while I was thinking. I left the
pauses in, because I wanted no manipulation
of the vidoe. I was going to put in menus,
but am far too lazy for that.
I hope that these will be convenient enough
so that people will actually watch one or
two. There should be some tactics in there,
that new players could pick up. I know there
are plenty of mistakes in there, but keep in
mind it was a ~6 hour straight play session
with no breaks. Made worse by the fact that
all of my recent PC's, have been horribly
crushed by the Archmage.
If anyone watches these, and can think of
ANY way to shave off more moves (and still
have a *reasonable* chance of survival)
please let me know! In this game, I gave up
the 'treasure hunter' talent line, in favor
of the bookcasting line. I forget what the
birthmonth was.
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I had a bit of confusion about how to start
out. I finaly decided on the SMC, because I
planned on bookcasting, I needed the blanket.
I proceeded to clear the entire BUGWIL,
and then got TP control from the ID.
Bw_clear.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/6ac1bde1
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With TP control, I wanted to try DF for the
great armor and weapons. Then went toward
Dwarftown.
Df_raid.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/1ed0265b
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Thrundaar opens the Griff quest, and the
reward is many PoEH. I want to get those
as fast as possible, I will need them for
the other quests I will be doing early.
Griff_y.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/f9d68722
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With darkness, the Water Temple is a
breeze. Without it, I nearly died. I guess
I really just underestimated the Snake,
because of how easily he normally dies.
Water_t.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/859dd71d
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Well, actually this file is more than just
the RotHK. I didn't want to split the ToEF
video into two parts, so I crammed the
druid quest, and DF clearing in with this.
Rothk.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/10f72864
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It weighs in at 1.4 MB, so should play for
about 45 minutes. I only watched it through
on fast forward though, so I don't know for
sure. The PC is very low exp. level when
going in, with TO at maybe 16 I think. I
used demons and grues for meat shields. A
lot of my PC's die here, this one was just
lucky.
Toef.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/88007387
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Well, this job isn't the most fun to do.
I try to use teleport, to limit the number
of game turns spent, looking for the down
staircases. When it works, it looks easy,
when it doesn't it's a headache.
Coc_dive.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/0ab9b447
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There is a handy trick in this one, that
lot of players can pick up. When collecting
items in the gift shop, use the in-game
configuration command ':=' to set the
Auto_Pickup feature. You will pick up all
of the items you specify, without having
to press the ',' key each step. This halves
your game turns spent in the gift shop,
and therefore halves the corruption you
recieve. I think it equals ~500 turns if
memory serves, and that's at level ~31 of
the CoC, so that's a lot of corruption.
Casino.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/8c501a41
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Boy, I almost died here. I honestly didn't
expect to get this far, with this PC. It
was the first PC I tried recording in
months. I blew my kitty karma in the ID,
by a stupid out of sight cat. I had fun
killing every cat I came across for the
rest of the game, but paid for it here.
I blinded him just fine, but I forgot to
web the room up first. Therefore he
cheerfully blundered into me in a blind
stupor, and nearly destroyed me. I drank
a PoEH and he stumbled the other way, but
it could have been the end. Lightning
ball finished him off.
Cat_lord.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/55db5ec8
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The Earth Temple is never easy, but with
lightning ball, it wasn't too bad. HP's
got pretty low at one point, but the
Stone Beast was relatively easy.
Earth_t.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/e8502f84
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I made my way to the Mana Temple, and
was about to take on the Archmage. I
remembered though, that I hadn't killed
Sharad yet. I had magic missile, and
invisibility, so I went back. While
blasting him, I think I hit the wrong
key and accidentally turned him
invisible.
I must have vanished him, because I've
never known of him to turn himself
invisible before. At first I didn't
know what happened, I thought maybe he
teleported or something. So I so without
thinking, I recklessly moved into him!
Luckily for me, I was dual wielding
shields at the time. If I had been using
a weapon, he would have known my position,
and killed me.
I finally killed him with magic missiles.
I got a few exp. levels up, and then I
picked up some well deserved treasure.
That's when the game crashed. I'm sure
it's not the fault of ADOM though. The
screen.rec file was about 11 MB big, and
I don't think it was made to handle that.
Sharad.rec
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/45e3d922
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