Taskmaker
Taskmaker is a game for the Macintosh developed by Storm Impact in 1989 and re-released in 1993. In it, you take the role of a young hero who must serve the TaskMaker, a powerful man who commands over a large kingdom.
You adventure through various realms, encountering ferocious monsters, in-jokes, and an amazing depth of features (including ATMs, recycling depots, public drunkenness, teleporters, "pass walls") and an enormous game world, particularly for the time. Its most obvious inspiration is the Ultima series, particularly Ultima III and IV, but far surpasses those games in terms of the interactivity the player can engage in with the world.
It features an extremely simple RPG system: characters are created with nothing more than a name, and the player rarely has to look at sheets of statistics to figure out what has to be done next.
Later, a sequel, Tomb of the TaskMaker, was released, also for the Macintosh.
You adventure through various realms, encountering ferocious monsters, in-jokes, and an amazing depth of features (including ATMs, recycling depots, public drunkenness, teleporters, "pass walls") and an enormous game world, particularly for the time. Its most obvious inspiration is the Ultima series, particularly Ultima III and IV, but far surpasses those games in terms of the interactivity the player can engage in with the world.
It features an extremely simple RPG system: characters are created with nothing more than a name, and the player rarely has to look at sheets of statistics to figure out what has to be done next.
Later, a sequel, Tomb of the TaskMaker, was released, also for the Macintosh.
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