> What inspired you to start these adventures off???....they're very well designed....
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> Was reading the posts from two years ago thinking to myself damn i had some cool names for places....shame to miss out on that!!!
> Seems to be coming along though....how long on average does it take to make a game like this?
> (pls excuse my ignorance...)

I had the ideas involving portals/shield plates a long time ago, possibly for a book, but I never did anything with it. Then when I learned people could write their own AGL games, I decided to use it for POAT. I don't think it took long to plan the important stuff out -- probably most of it was done in an evening, but of course I left out the details like room descriptions and conversations until I was actually writing it. POAT took about 6 weeks to write. OAT took only 12 days to write, because I rushed through it (probably it shows), working nearly every spare moment.