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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. Lack of innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yuck, what a common slashdot subject line. *hits anonymous*

    Seriously, though, "great old-school look" is what all these fan adventures do. I'd like to see one that looks like a Hieronymous Bosch come to life or something. With 1024x768 and 16.7 million colours to work with, there's no reason a 2-d graphic adventure couldn't come to life.

    I'm sure this one's great... but that's what happened to the whole genre. A quick glut of nearly identical games made 3-D seem like the only visual choice. Don't talk Grim Fandango... too little, too late, too "wishing to be real 3-D".

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

    This is the first time I've used AGS, so I'm hoping someone better informed might leap in to point out what I'm doing wrong. I ran the linux config program, then with current.exe from no-action in the same directory I tried ./ags and got "Main game file not found. This may be from a different AGS version, or the file may have got corrupted.".

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    Everything will be taken away from you.
  3. Re:Looks cool but... by Mish · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, I personally couldn't get it working.

    As Khalek mentioned it 'should' work and shouldn't require the original .dat.

    1) Download and unpack the latest Linux client (2.60)
    2) Download and install Allegro 4.1 if its not already installed.
    3) Rename current.exe to ac2game.dat
    4) Run ./ags-setup to set ags up
    5) Start the game with: ./ags
    6) If it complains about a missing liballeg.so.4.1 then you may need to simlink/copy the 4.1 version of liballeg.so to whereever your system keeps its libs.

    The game hangs X for me when I do this, maybe an older version of Allegro might help.

    If you get it working let the version numbers of the libs and core program you used.