Oldest New Feature Awards
By Mims Wright | on January 22, 2007
In News, Rants, Software Design, User Interface Design | No Comments
OK, OK, I promised myself I wouldn’t knock on Vista until I’ve really given it a fair shot, and I think that’s what I was doing when I went to the Vista features showcase too see what fantastic new innovations are on their way from Redmond. I’m sure it’s no surprise that most of them had already been fantastically innovated by their competitors.
But there are some among these which many of us have been enjoying for so long now that they are as much features of an operating system as a steering wheel is a feature of a car. So without further ado, I present
The Oldest New Feature Awards
Micksna’d!
By Mims Wright | on January 18, 2007
In Flash, News, Serious Stuff, Site-seeing | No Comments
Yay! We’ve been added to the news aggregator, MXNA! Now maybe our readership will climb to double digits and you can tell people you were into us before we got cool.
Point-and-Click Development
By Mims Wright | on January 10, 2007
In Programming, Site-seeing, Software Design, Tutorial | 1 Comment
After visiting a Games for Change salon last night, I spent some time thinking about the possibilities for developing point and click adventure games (a la king’s quest, Monkey Island, etc.). After some googling, I found these resources shared here for your benefit:
- www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ - A new-fangled tool for creating adventure games modeled after SCUMM and SCI
- www.agidev.com/ - Site focused around older AGI based Sierra-style games (KQ1, Leisure Suit Larry 1, Police Quest 1, &c.)
- www.bripro.com/scistudio/index.php - SCI0 creation utility for making middle-era Sierra-style games (KQ4, LSL3, &c.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra’s_Creative_Interpreter - More information on SCI including SCI versions 0 through 3.
- agisci.cjb.net/ - Even more SCI and AGI resources.
- gamefileformats.netfirms.com/ - An archive of video game formats with descriptions and some utilities
- www.scummvm.org/ - A reverse engineered interpreter for SCUMM based games (Monkey Island, Sam & Max, &c.) also runs Westwood Studios AGI.
- scumm.mixnmojo.com/ - A site with resources for SCUMM developers