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Classic Browser Adventuring Goes Open Source

Posted by simoniker on from the rock-your-kings-quest-some-more dept.

Conrad Sheldon writes "Just a few days after the one year anniversary of its launch, 'adventure gaming engine in a browser' Good Old Adventures has gone open source. This means that you can now create your very own browser-running Sierra On-Line format AGI games, and incorporate them into your web site - it works with the alternative SCI-formatted games as well. With some more work on the open source code by developers, perhaps it will even support SCUMM and other engines some day. The possibilities are virtually endless. Let the adventures begin..." We previously featured this project earlier last year, and it should be noted the source "does not come with the multiplayer libraries, but it is the fully playable... singleplayer version of what is online here."

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  1. This reminds me... by scumbucket · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of the practice of sneaking text based games in
    daemons. I think either classic adventure or mansion was on one of the mindspring DNS servers
    for a while. You could play with nslookup. It went along the lines of:

    nslookup www.blah.com 207.69.188.186 forward

    and you'd get your request back and at the bottom of it would be something like:

    You enter a room and a loud clear voice says "ritnew is a charming word" or whatever your next move was. I'd love to find another one of these.

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  2. No KQ1? by ArcticPuppy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thanks to Kings Quest I was way ahead of my class in english lessons. I remember sitting for hours with a norwegian-english dictionary trying out different combinations of look and get .