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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. Awesome by Lane.exe · · Score: 4, Funny

    But does it contain grog recipes?

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    IAALS.
  2. 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".

  3. 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.

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

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