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Make Your Own Point And Click Adventures

Posted by simoniker on from the scumm-of-the-earth dept.

Thanks to Jakob for pointing to a Boomtown.net article discussing independent developers keeping point and click adventures alive on the PC. The article is headed "..most of us remember with fondness the Monkey Island era of point and clicks, but now fans of the genre are making their own", and has links to a number of fan/indie-developed games such as Pleurghburg: Dark Ages or the in-development Project Joe, plus free adventure game engines such as Adventure Game Studio and AGAST.

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  1. Who does the art? by dwvanstone · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I find the idea of generating a text adventure (using TADS or Inform) to be very appealing. I love adventures, text or graphical, and I could come up with many clever puzzles or story lines.

    However, I could never come up with the art needed for the graphical adventure.

    I think it's a rare person who has the talents of putting together a good story, good puzzles, and good artwork in order to use these tools.

  2. Re:Of course this game genre is near extinction. by Dave_21-6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't believe these games are necessarily dying out just because there are multiplayer games out there. They are dying out because they are a bit expensive to produce versus the number of units it will likely sell. The big publishers are not satisfied with 100k units sold for a title anymore, so who knows when we'll see another King's Quest series.

    In terms of why would anyone want to play this kind of game, I view these games as a story or a world to be discovered. I also don't necessarily want to play with human players or grind out another level on a more-dynamic game like Everquest. Sometimes I just want to sit down with a good book, and this is a pretty close equivalent.

    And while it would be interesting if these types of games were replayable in some significant way, I am more than happy to plunk down $30 for 30 hours worth of entertainment from a title. If one of these games gives me that much for my money, I'm pretty pleased.