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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you say the same thing about books as well? That's how I look at adventure games: They are interactive books.

  3. Plug, plug, plug - Loki! by McMac · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey, they're missing Project Loki - check it out at:

    www.sorsegods.co.uk

    We've been working on it (very part time) for bloody ages and we're finally coming to the point where the engine is working well and the graphics are coming together too!

    Hooray for us.