atw: OT: Word Warcraft ready for Christmas
- From: "Steve Hudson" <adslyy5g@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Word PC List'" <WORD-PC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:48:07 +1100
[Apologies for being a day early with a Friday post on a Thursday]
Introducing the must-have Christmas present for technical writers everywhere
- the only game every to target the technical writing audience: Word
Warcraft from Blister.
Take control of a run away documentation department, collect resources and
build essential infrastructure to overcome your enemy. Buildings include:
* Head Office - every centre of ops needs a HO. Your HO is where you send
all your gathered resources to. The HO produces Minions, your basic worker
unit. The HO can be upgraded to include Quality Assurance, which allows you
to build technical writers and the highly dangerous Quality Control Freaks
as well.
* Server farm - increases the rate of production of all other buildings and
has several vital technology upgrades for increasing the attack and defence
capability of your units, including Zombie Programming to upgrade your
programmers into lethal long-range attack units.
* Branches - the more staff you have, the more branches you need to build to
control them. The further from a branch a staff member is, the higher their
daily expense account.
* Sweatshop - increases the daily profits and has several upgrades through
to skunk works, which enable the creation of SMEs and Programmers, who are
able to dodge attacks of all kinds with the Teflon Armour upgrade.
* Printing press: Produces Subversive literature which is slowly able to
convert enemy units to your side. Increases the effectiveness of technical
writers attacking buildings. Produces documents that are your main weapon of
attack, dependant on your team.
AND MORE!!!
Choose from several teams:
Wordpad: Tutorial mode only. Limited building capabilities, but builds
really fast. Attacks with RTF documents.
Word: Create the evil empire. Produces quickly, has limited document upgrade
capability so relies on weight of numbers in all battles. Attacks using the
Corrupt Document.
Flamemaker: Has completely different units than the other teams, has the
most powerful documents, but has limited unit types, upgrades and branch
count. Attacks using the Graphical Document.
WordPerfect: Similar to Word, but has better upgrades, more powerful
documents but is only allowed a limited number of branches and thus staff.
Attacks using the Structured Document and has special stealth capabilities -
it can mimic Word troops so long as there are no technical writers nearby
and the WordPerfect Structure Documents do not use their special Stabilise
List attack (converts the Word team's Corrupt Documents into Structure
Documents belonging to the WordPerfect team).
Supports multiplayer, internet, custom maps, single player and campaign
modes. Campaign mode is based on the heady days of the 70-90s. Play the
first 15 years as Flamemaker, racing to dominance with its full range of
features available from the start. Crush the fledgling Evil Empire still
struggling without its full feature set or massive weight of numbers. Then
play the next 15 years as the Evil Empire, now starting to slowly develop
competing technologies.
Watch as your troops annihilate the previously undefeatable Flamemaker
empire as it fails to match upgrades and technologies. Tremble with power as
you build thousands of branches across the map, forcing fleeing enemy agents
into smaller and smaller regions. Hear the scream of tortured grammar. Feel
the documents shredding under your fingertips (with the Rumble-Pack Keyboard
TM INC expansion).
Cheap at half the price! Don't buy just one, buy a copy for all your friends
as well. Buy 50 and get one free! Does not include batteries.
Steve Hudson - Blister Entertainment
Please note: Factual content in this email has been filtered out. Use only
as directed and see your doctor if pain persists.
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