SPAG
                  www.sparkynet.com/spag/

                       Article by Sue

With only one issue of SynTax to go, I'm planning on telling you 
about some useful sites on the net that you can use once 
SynTax is no more. 

If you're interested in text adventures SPAG, the Society for the 
Promotion of Adventure Games, is a great site to visit. It also 
covers games that have some graphics but it is primarily for text 
games. It mostly consists of game reviews, indexing them by 
title, author or reviewer. Roughly every quarter a newsletter is 
emailed to subscribers and back issues can be read on the site. 

These contained the latest reviews at that time with scores and 
'picks of the month'. The current issue is number 36, March 16th 
2004. It has six reviews - Amnesia, Bad Machine, Hamlet, 
Insight, Shadowgate and To Hell in a Hamper. There are also 
letters to the editor, news snippets and a spoilers section. The 
scores and picks section have vanished.

Other interesting sections include the Breathers Wall. On this 
you can post a 150 word description of a room to set its 
atmosphere. There are several links to other sites and a New 
Releases Shelf where you can read a list of the games released 
in the last 3 to 6 months.











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