Designer's Den

Designer's Den is a column published in the Eamon Adventurer's Log that gives guidance, tips, and examples for building custom Eamon adventures and coding various special features.

Columns

Issue	Author	Subjects
March 1984	John Nelson	Getting started designing a dungeon Steps for building and testing it
May 1984	John Nelson	Overview of Eamon An introduction to variable names and tables
August 1984	John Nelson	Local magic Secret passages Moving monsters or artifacts in and out of rooms
October 1984	John Nelson	Making an openable, lockable gate to block a passage
January 1985	Bob Davis	Dead bodies Creating custom magic effects
March 1985	John Nelson	Guidelines for adventures distributed by the club Eamon system limitations Artifact and monster fields
May 1985	Jeff Harris and John Nelson	Imagining pets and more realistic armor An example of how to code a pet for an adventurer
August 1985	Bob Davis	Adding new commands
October 1985	John Nelson	Gates in version 6.0 adventures Armor, buried treasure, and other 6.0 functions A save game routine that works with a full disk Some previously undocumented 6.0 features
January 1987	John Nelson	Processing for creating a new dungeon
October 1987	Pat Hurst	Special effects in Buccaneer!
1988	John Nelson	Introduction to PC-based design Enhancements in the PC Dungeon Edit program
April 1989	John Nelson	Introduction to PC-based design Enhancements in the PC Dungeon Edit program