Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games

Steam store page with demo

For the unfamiliar, this is an interactive fiction competition. The premise is that people submit 'seeds' (assets, writing prompts, or game ideas) and creators pick ones they like to make a game off of. The best game wins, good seeds can get stickers. (Both of these are just virtual pats on the back, no real money or stickers involved.) The nature of this event is that most of the seeds will remain unused, but I think having a bunch of them to look through is part of the appeal. And of course they can be resubmitted or removed if you want to use the idea for your own project.

News: Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – Reforged is set to launch on Nintendo Switch on November 7, 2024.

New adventure game "The Phantom Fellows" has released on GOG and Steam, with a 10% discount until 4th Oct.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26686523

Can you solve the mystery of the Beast of Gozdary?

In a universe where bagels meet bars, the BAGEL engine has been perfectly toasted, and the ScummVM team is now ready to serve a slice of The Space Bar nostalgia. No, it’s not the key on your keyboard. Rather, it’s a detective story set on a distant planet. Important data has been stolen, and the perpetrator is a shape-shifter laying low in a spaceport dive bar until he can flee off-planet. You play a hard-boiled detective who has the skill to psychically visit bar patrons’ memories to gather clues and narrow down suspects.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15577662

Happy 40th anniversary to the first game in the King's Quest series, one of the first graphical adventure games, and where Sierra really made their name.

I found this cool old website for The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and T7G3: The Collector. The author is "Bones the Caretaker". The section of the website for The Collector says "Copyright site-design and written content by Paul van der Meer 2003".

HN Discussion

Source: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20240407/

Oh MMy — a new ScummVM release!

https://networkscience.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/game-dependency-graph-the-secret-of-monkey-island/

Just figured I’d share. Regardless of if you’re a big monkey island fan or not (and you should be, in my biased opinion) you’ve almost definitely played games made by people inspired by it. Good video!

Lets Do the Time Warp Again, Or Burger Chow Awaits!

now officially available on the iOS app store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scummvm/id6446184412

For the unfamiliar, IFComp is the biggest event in the IF community, with usually 50+ entrants each year. The link is to all the games—which are, of course, free. Consider becoming a judge or donating to the prize pool!

The 10 year anniversary of the channel was marked by a stream of a full motion video game with quite possibly the horniest main character ever. And it's not a fun kind of horny, it's an angry kind of horny. Well, let's enjoy(?) this '90s sexual psychodrama full of '90s ideas about sex and power.

brilliant intro cinematic

@adventuregames Test posting from Mastodon. Please ignore this. I'm new to this and vulnerable, like a faun in the woods... but tough, like a faun with a machine gun!

My band Error 47 sat down with two legends — Graeme Devine and George Sanger — and chatted for an hour about the music of these iconic CD-ROM games. Lots of cool nuggets in here, including how Trilobyte took a massive chance in supporting General MIDI, and how we might not have gotten Nine Inch Nails' beloved Quake soundtrack if it hadn't been for Graeme's programming wizardry.

Broken Sword Parzival’s Stone will be the first new entry for the iconic point-and-click adventure games in a decade, and it’ll be preceded by the arrival of a 4K reinvention of the beloved first game in the series. Alongside the new Broken Sword Parzival’s Stone, Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars Reforged is set to arrive in early 2024, and developer Revolution Software says it’s aimed to be a perfect introduction for newcomers and a nostalgia trip for long-time fans alike.

https://www.scummvm.org/demos/

GOBLiiiNS5 - The Invasion of the Morglotons Point'nClick adventure game in 2d. French and english version. 16 great levels full of puzzles, characters and humor.

This legendary article used to be on Gamespot

ScummVM dev Sluicebox just blew the doors to the Sierra kingdom wide open. He wrote a decompiler that annotates the decompiled scripts flawlessly so there's no more guesswork as to "uh, I wonder what 'global34' does."

I was nudged towards looking into Matrix, the fedi-alternative to Discord, to see if I should set up a chat space for adventure game fans... and it turns out I didn't have to. One already exists!

Has anyone read this? It exclusively covers text games, but goes a lot into the development of graphics in parallel, including when Infocom was a major competitor in the adventure gaming marketing.

Mine is hands down the green alien fart cloud in The Pandora Directive. For three simple reasons:

What's that one adventure game you can just boot up and have a great chill time with? Mine would probably be Day of the Tentacle. It's such a wonderful, colorful world to inhabit, and all the characters are lively and oozing with personality (no Sludge-o-Matic pun intended). I could spend hours just walking around talking to characters and not even think about solving any puzzles.

One of the things that have always endeared me to adventure games above all other types of fiction (books, movies, etc.) is that they give the player the opportunity to shape the story and unfold it at their own pace. While some games are content to have a linear story (and no slight against that — some absolute classics have only one straight solution), I am truly fascinated by the games that play up the "interactive" part of the medium.

I mean, obviously I'm biased, but Space Quest III just had one of the most amazing kick-ass soundtracks. Composed by Bob Siebenberg, the drummer from Supertramp!

Loom may not exactly be obscure by any standard, but I don't see it being mentioned nearly as much as, say, Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island. But it was a truly revolutionary way of reimagining the adventure game genre, and in a very early age of point-and-click. No inventory, single mouse click interaction, using spells to interact with the environment...

Here, I'll start. When I was 8 years old, my parents went to a dinner party and plonked me down in front of the host's computer so I'd stay out of their way. The game they booted up to keep me occupied was *Space Quest II*. Little did they know what impact that would have on me...