Regicide v8 Hc

Regicide is a darkly comic 1997 HyperCard adventure by Toronto-based Ridiculum Software in which the player wreaks havoc upon King George, King Henry, Queen Liz, and a deity called the Programmanar. It was built for the Ursula Franklin HyperCard Challenge and is shareware, with a tongue-in-cheek registration fee of one pair of underwear.

Gameplay

Players outfit a regicidal hero by buying weapons, armour, and magic from in-game vendors, then test the loadout in the mines for practice before stepping into the dreaded Arena to face the royal targets. Choices and combat play out through HyperCard stack navigation rather than real-time action.

HyperCard delivery

The 'v8 Hc' suffix marks this as the eighth HyperCard build of the stack. It runs in HyperCard 2.3 or HyperCard Player 2.3 on a Classic Mac, which keeps the install footprint small and lets the authors lean on HyperTalk for branching dialogue, item shops, and the Arena's encounter logic.

Authors and origin

Credited to Adrian Gudas, Nick Davidson, and Ivan Lange under the Ridiculum Software banner. Updates and contact information were originally hosted at interlog.com/~gudas/regicide.html, a since-vanished personal page typical of late-1990s Canadian shareware authors.

System requirements

Targets Mac OS 7.0 through 7.6 and Mac OS 9 on 68k hardware. The full stack is roughly 2.16 MB on disk and requires HyperCard 2.3 or the freely redistributable HyperCard Player 2.3 to launch.