Tales of the Unknown: The Bard's Tale Design Document

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:14 pm

Hi, I saw this Bard's Tale Tales of the Unknown Design Document over at gamebanshee. Apparently the original title was Shadow Snare and it had a dialog mode according to Brian Fargo. Does anyone know anything further about the dialog mode? Perhaps there may be some way to activate it?

Flanimal · Post by **Flanimal** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:55 pm

Fantastic to see original material from the conception of the game. It's how amazing how accurate the design is in comparison to the final product.
The abandoned dialogue feature sounds fascinating. I guess it required too much memory and had to be abandoned. It would have been totally impossible on the tape versions.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:23 am

I can't seem to find this document. Has it been removed?

tpth · Post by **tpth** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:13 am

Still there as far as I can see? You can link directly to the doc itself here:
http://www.gamebanshee.com/games/tales- ... tab=images

Flanimal · Post by **Flanimal** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:05 pm

I wonder if they retained any of the text for the abandoned dialogue feature. It would be really cool if someone made an enhanced version of BT with the dialogue feature implemented as it might have been originally if memory has not been a restriction. I invite anyone to take up this idea!