> If you were to play a game in the style of AGL games (and thus quite text dominant), which would you prefer?
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> 1) Having certain scenes and characters depicted with graphics to provide a visual connection and feel for the game.
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> 2) Omitting images so that the player may create his or her own visual imagery of the universe they are playing within.

SOAT will have quite a few images, but they won't be scene and item illustrations. They'll be maps and various diagrams of puzzles in the game, serving the same purpose as the torus diagram in POAT (which, apparently, didn't help people too much -- the ones in SOAT will be generally much clearer). If I were an artist, I'd probably sketch a few of the scenes for the game, but I'm not, so you won't have to worry about it. I considered finding free photographic images to match my perceptions of certain outdoor locales, but I decided against that too. Everything I'm doing is computer-generated graphics.

--gremlinn