Bard's Tale Construction Set
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| Developer(s) | Interplay Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Release date(s) | 1991 |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
| Mode(s) | Editor |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, DOS |
The Bard's Tale Construction Set is computer software that allows the user to create simple dungeon crawl video games using The Bard's Tale game engine. It was created by Interplay Productions in 1991 and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was released for the Amiga and IBM-PC/MS-DOS.
Since you did not need to own The Bard's Tale Construction Set in order to play games which were created with it, you could easily (and legally) distribute your own created games among your friends.
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[edit] Sample scenario
Included with the software was a sample scenario which you could play and learn from, entitled Star Light Festival.
Set in the small rundown village of Isil Thania, your band of adventurers has travelled from afar to witness the annual Star Light Festival in which an eerie light comes down from a star for one night only making the night into day.
While awaiting the Festival at the Rainbow Bar, a small twisted man leads you into the sewers (which feature the same maps found in the original Bard's Tale game), and from there you engage upon a quest that takes you from one location in the city to the next, eventually to find the secret truths behind the Star Cult and the town of Isil Thania.
[edit] Created games
The following games are known to have been created using The Bard's Tale Construction Set:
- The Bard's Lore: The Warrior and The Dragon, by John H. Wigforss (PC, 1998)
- Nutilan, by Dennis Payne (PC, 2000)
(It should be noted that since the software pre-dated the modern Internet, the vast majority of games created with it never found widespread distribution on-line, and have faded into obscurity.)
[edit] Trivia
Feargus Urquhart served as a play tester for The Bard's Tale Construction Set, and went on to found the game companies Black Isle Studios and Obsidian Entertainment.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Bard's Tale Compendium
- The Bard's Tale Construction Set at MobyGames
- Bt Builder - an attempt to create an open source implementation of The Bard's Tale Construction Set.
