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 Adventure game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges.
The adventure genre was quite popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and many considered it to be among the most technically advanced genres.
Adventure games based on the Nancy Drew books are published by Her Interactive and comprise a series of over twelve titles published since 2000.
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 Adventure Construction Set - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a program used to construct Ultima-type games, written by graphic adventure game pioneer Stuart Smith and published in 1985 by Electronic Arts.
As technology continued to improve, ACS was followed over the years by more powerful construction kits, culminating in the current world of the shooter game and their mods.
Shortly after Adventure Construction Set's release, announcements were included in the packaging for players to submit their adventures for a contest to be judged by Electronic Arts and their playtesters.
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 Pinball Construction Set - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was released for the Apple II and Atari 800 in 1983 and was later ported to other platforms, such as the Commodore 64 and PC.
In PCS, users constructed their own virtual pinball arcade machine, by dropping controls onto a table.
Pinball Construction Set was ported to the numerous home computers of the era, including the Commodore 64 and as a PC booter.
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Adventure Game Creators ======================= This file is an attempt to create a list of all systems that have been used to create adventure games, both those that are available for anyone to use and those that are used internally by different software houses.
Adventure databases were given a password so you could re-edit them at a later time.
The Adventure International adventures were written with an adventure creator with text compression and a sophisticated command interpreter running on a BBC micro and a graphics tool running on an Apricot FI.
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 TDDC29 Föreläsning 4
Editor/Construction Set: Denotes the addition of an editor bundled with the game so as to facilitate tweaking game variables, drawing new playfields/maps, drawing new graphics, etc. Built-in editors greatly extend the life of games because they extend playability infinitely.
Construction sets are an exciting category, and I wish there were more of them.
Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set released by Electronic Arts in 1987 was the first commercial attempt at this.
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 Adventure Construction Set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a program used to Ultima -type games written by Stuart Smith and published in 1984 (or 1985) by Electronic Arts.
The program concept was inspired by the Pinball Construction Set (PCS) that had come out a years earlier; provide a graphical editor for construction of maps placement of creatures etc let the designer use those to create standalone game that can be shared with The resulting game was a top-down view to Ultima -type games.
This cute grooming set contains a baby nail clipper with a handle so you can grab it better, curved scissors, also specially designed for your baby's soft and diminute nails, a soft hair brush and a small comb suited for a baby's delicate hair, a set of n...
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 Amazon Rainforest Jungle Tours - Testimonials
First of all, Adventure Life was great in helping me think about the trip and stringing together options for travel.
These times were set to coincide with the most activity of the birds and animals.
I think though, that if you go to the rainforest with the typical American "accomplish this set of tasks, get through as many critters and plants on my checklist as possible" approach, you will literally miss the forest for the trees.
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 Adventure Construction Set download @ Game Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As its name implies, Adventure Construction Set is a program that allows you to create your own "adventure." The result is really an RPG, due to heavy emphasis on monsters and statistics.
In addition to a myriad of design choices, the program offers a "create random adventure" feature that is perfect for everyone with limited patience.
Once an adventure is created, you can create a "stand-alone" executable to give out to your friends.
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 GameSpy.com - Reviews: RuneSword II (PC)
Adventures come and go, but your character persists (barring death, of course).
He or she visits episodes like a television sitcom "guest star," dropping in to hack, slash, thieve, or conjure, and then moving on to the next episode with a swagger and a "my work here is done." In those late-night AD&D games the module was just the occasion; your character was the real centerpiece.
It's a combat system driven by a set of intuitive, common sense tenets (with a few notable exceptions, such as the fact that backstabbing is apparently a ranged attack).
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 GameSpy.com - Articles
The other downside of this was that your characters couldn't go off into new adventures with their magic stuff intact, because the new adventure wouldn't support their special magic items.
In programming terms, construction sets of the past were not object-oriented.
RuneSword allows you a great deal of control or generating adventures automatically, using pre-set components, or randomly, or a combination of the two by using the "Tome Wizard." You can even have parts of the adventure generated randomly on the fly when characters arrive.
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 XYZZYnews Issue #7 Article: "Adventure Game Interfaces"
Adventure games have gone through many changes since 1977, but is this progress enough to enable all games to be enjoyed by people with vastly different tastes?
Gamers everywhere agree that user-friendliness is the key to a satisfying computer adventure, but not all players are in agreement on how the term is defined.
ICOM's adventures ("Deja Vu," "Uninvited," "Shadowgate") were initially released solely for the Macintosh platform, but several years back found their way to PCs, and even the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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 Ecstatica - Adventure Classic Gaming - ACG - Adventure Games, Interactive Fiction Games - Reviews, Previews, ...
You are a solitary traveler seeking shelter in the village of Tirich, a small community set in Northern Europe in the tenth century.
Aside from the somewhat exaggerated rendering of the female upper body (the breasts), all the creatures are remarkably accurate in both their static and animated displays.
The use of ellipsoids makes for the construction of colorful characters that are not only lifelike but are also correct in their anatomy, complete with movable joints and accentuated body parts such as the breasts or the buttocks.
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 Curmudgeon Gamer - Grass Mowing Memory
The set of included graphics, from which to start, was itself a tremendous gift.
After tweaking various parameters to determine the size and difficulty of the adventure, the system announced a final time until it was done and could be left alone until it finished.
I'd set up the electric fan so that it blew across the system, especially the fl plastic brick power supply which tended to overheat on hot days, and head out to mow the grass.
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 gamebase64.com - The Gamebase Collection
One tiny detail of vital interest to loading minions, which the manual does mention in passing, is that there is the need for a few disk changes whilst setting up your blank disk for the adventure.
Gateways of various descriptions lead into the middle of a lake with no possible means of a character returning from one; in fact the whole affair is definitely Pythonesque.
The amount of customisation that may be achieved with the adventure pack is enormous and still easy to achieve.
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 GameSpy:
Pinball Construction Set was the brainchild of Bill Budge, otherwise known as the god of Apple II graphics design.
When Budge set out to develop a tool to build virtual pinball tables, he really pulled out all the stops, as is evident from PCS's innovative interfaces and built-in editors.
Obviously Pinball Construction Set was way ahead of its time, and that more than anything earns it a place of prominence in the GameSpy Hall of Fame.
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 Comments for: Mod My Game Please - ja.zz
Something where the average computer user can throw down something playable in an hour or so and be happy with what they have done.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s there were several such sets.
Adventure Construction Set, Racing Construction Set, Pinball Construction set, Bards Tale CS, abd Adventures Unlimited.
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 Any good console Pinball games out there? - AtariAge Forums
From: Atlanta, GA AFAIK Pinball Construction Set was made by EA and released only on C-64.
AFAIK Pinball Construction Set was made by EA and released only on C-64.
Pinball Construction Set was awesome, but has dated visuals these days.
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 The Bard's Tale Compendium - The Bard's Tale Construction Set - Files
The Bard's Tale Construction Set, released by Interplay in 1991, allows PC (MS-DOS) and Amiga fans to create their own adventures using the classic game engine from the Bard's Tale series.
It also comes with a sample adventure set in "Isil Thania".
Your band of adventurers has travelled from afar to witness the annual Star Light Festival in which an eerie light comes down from a star for one night only making the night into day.
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 Bridge Construction Set - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com
In Bridge Construction Set you design and build bridges, and then stress test them to see your creations hold up under pressure.
The robust physics deployed in Bridge Construction Set let you build a wide variety of bridges that can span the river.
The 3D graphics allow you to view your bridge from any angle, including a first person train view--its as if you are strapped to the front of the train when your bridge is first tested (if this happened in real life, we might have engineers checking all their bridges in a simulator).
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 Welcome to the Adventure Network!
ACCT Association for Challenge Course Technology is an international professional group of challenge course vendors and practitioners who set safety construction and operations standards for the industry.
The Adventure Network is an accredited vendor member in good standing with the ACCT.
The Adventure Network works in a cooperative relationship with Youth Leadership Institute.
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 Tower of Myraglen
Alas, Myraglen does not fill the void that a non-existant IIgs version of Adventure Construction Set left (damnit, they even made an Amiga version!) as it doesn't contain game editing functions.
Although I haven't played much of Tower of Myraglen, to say it's like Adventure Construction Set is praise.
It was a fun, simple way of adventuring, realised by not having to map seemingly endless mazes and corridors.
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 Gamasutra - Features - "GDC 2003: Neverwinter Nights Client/Server Postmortem: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And ...
Like Adventure Construction Set, this was a classic case of an idea that was ahead of its time.
While many of these mods were of professional quality, the numbers that were being created didn't justify the effort that creating a full RPG construction tool would entail.
For example, since we needed the pathfinding information to be integrated into the tiles, we had to deal with the fact that not only are all of combinations of tiles too numerous to test, you also have to worry about the users placing objects over key pathfinding locations.
www.gamasutra.com /gdc2003/features/20030306/brockington_01.htm   (3744 words)

  
 The Adventure Network — Adventure Guide Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Adventure Guide Services offers a series of adventure and other recreational trips to the general public.
While many trips offer thrills and excitement, the focus is on safety, fun and recreation.
Call to set up privately scheduled trips for groups or individuals.
www.adventure-network.net /ags.html   (68 words)

  
 Plan : Plan for James W. Hofmann :. GarageGames
The original was Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set, the clone was Chris Hopkins' Adventure Creation Kit.
I never got to use ACS on a real 8-bit, but I've taken a look at it again through emulation and while the responsiveness of it was pretty poor, the essentials for making a lightweight, early-Ultima-esque role-playing game with puzzles and combat were all there.
It's since been superseded by several other fantasy "construction sets," including the Bard's Tale Construction Set, The Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures (both in the early 90's), Morrowind, and of course the UNBELIEVABLY module-heavy Neverwinter Nights.
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 Neverwinter Nights: Independent Game Festival Finalist: Brian Watson
Brian: Runes of Blood is an epic adventure in a classic D&D sense in which a fledgling hero is pitted against an evil King dabbling in forbidden magic and torture, and who imprisons the hero at the beginning of the story.
The adventure takes a new character to 12th level and higher, and features 30+ hours of playing time.
I hoped Runes was accepted as a finalist because it is a substantial adventure with a good amount of choices and surprises waiting for the player, and also because of the small amount of completely original custom content that was created for the module.
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 WoYaa!: ENTERTAINMENT/GAMES/ADVENTURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Adventure Construction Set for DOS by Electronic Arts.
Set after the event of Secret of Mana, you play a young man who escapes from his captors, only to find a huge world ahead of him.
Runaway is a point-and-click adventure game which takes place in New York in the year 2000.
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