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No-Action Jackson - Graphic Adventuring Up Geekdom

Posted by simoniker on from the where's-the-cheetos? dept.

digitaltacoGSI writes "Fans of LucasArts-style adventure games (Monkey Island, Day of Tentacle, etc) would be wise to check out the brand-new, freely downloadable PC graphical adventure entitled No-Action Jackson, from independent developer Britton O'Toole. The story revolves around a young nerd -- Jackson -- who must escape the confines of his house and free his friends from their daily activities in order to make it to their D&D sessions at the local comic book store. It's very funny, very professional, has a great old-school look, and includes some very difficult puzzles." Judging by the positive reactions on AGSForums.com, this is well worth checking out.

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  1. Um.. no thanks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's wrong with this picture:

    Download and run this 6MB Windows executable that's hosted on a site without a domain name!

    No thanks, but I'd like my Windows machine without what could very easily be a nasty custom virus disguised as a game.

  2. Looks cool but... by Mish · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although the game was written in Adventure Game Studio (which has a Linux client) the Linux client requires the raw .dat file, which the author hasn't supplied.

    The win32 version 'runs' under WINE but the mouse code in win32 AGS doesn't play nice with WINE, to the point of making the game unplayable. :(

    1. Re:Looks cool but... by Khalek · · Score: 3, Informative

      When I last used the Linux port of the AGS interpreter some time ago it was able to use the information in the exe to play the game without the need for a .dat. I don't see why this behaviour would have changed.

    2. Re:Looks cool but... by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 2, Informative

      Urgh, somehow I didn't notice this post! I missed the renaming of current.exe to ac2game.dat, and somehow didn't even notice the faq on the client page. I eventually found out by searching the ags board. It's working for me now using 2.60 and the redhat 9 allegro-4.1.11-1.i386.rpm from the client page, converted by alien to a deb and installed on Debian Unstable. It's not hanging x for me when run as a window, but I'm a bit too nervous to try full screen untill I can afford to have x crash around me.

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      Everything will be taken away from you.
  3. Re:No-fun Jackson is more like it. by Slyght · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sound issues you speak of are what the old-school LucasArts games were like, which this game is trying to emulate.

  4. Re:Bandwidth Limit Exceeded by applef00 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ask and ye shall receive. http://www.talesofinterest.com/no-action/

  5. *mirror* by obscuriosity · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since his site is completely borked. Here's a mirror. be gentle.