Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures

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Forgotten Realms:
Unlimited Adventures
Single-player

Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures, also known as Unlimited Adventures, or by the acronyms FRUA or UA, is a

IBM PC and Macintosh
.

Gameplay

Unlimited Adventures is a construction kit for computer

TSR, Inc. required the former to stop using the Gold Box engine, so the company released its development tools.[4][3] Games created by users can be shared with other players who also own Unlimited Adventures. As of 2022, the program still has an active community of users.[5][non-primary source needed
]

The original game allowed the user to create dungeon modules, some editing and renaming of monsters and characters, and to import pictures and monster sprites. However, some art, such as walls, combat backdrops, and title screens, could not be changed in the unmodified game.

Those limitations have been overcome by community-made mods. The availability of these mods has led to the creation of comprehensive "worldhacks", designed to allow the creation of science fiction, superhero, Western and Roman Empire adventures, among others. A program called "UASHELL" applies and manages these hacks and enables the player to apply them.

The fanmade game design program Dungeon Craft (originally called UA Forever) is a standalone program that partially emulates FRUA's engine, but with a greater ease of user modification.

Compilations

Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures is included in the compilation "The Forgotten Realm Archives - Collection Two".[6]

Reception

Screenshot of Dungeon Craft, a FRUA clone

SSI sold 32,364 copies of Unlimited Adventures.[4] Computer Gaming World in 1993 called it "the best adventure-construction kit available" despite the "sorely lacking" Gold Box engine.[7] According to GameSpy in 2004, although "the game's graphics were poor [...] and using the tools could be a little complicated, Unlimited Adventures was an excellent tool for budding RPG designers".[8]

References

  1. Cambridge Evening News
    . March 9, 1993. p. 21. Retrieved December 30, 2023. You can create your own fantasy adventure in the Unlimited Adventures construction kit...The game is coming soon from US Gold on PC and Apple Mac.
  2. Gamasutra. Archived from the original
    on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0786458950
  4. ^ a b Maher, Jimmy (2017-03-31). "Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold". The Digital Antiquarian.
  5. ^ "Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures Community". Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  6. ^ "Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two". Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  7. ^ Craft, Rudy (September 1993). "Create Your Own Fictions With SSI's Unlimited Adventures". Computer Gaming World. p. 54. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  8. ^ Rausch, Allen (2004-08-17). "A History of D&D Video Games - Part III". Game Spy. Retrieved November 17, 2012.

External links

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