If you have a craving to play a free adventure game, you can download any game from this great website, Adventure Game Studio.
Here is the link: Adventure Game Studio Game List Hundreds of games are waiting to be downloaded.
I have come upon this website via Google. I have been amazed to see the overwhelming number of games.
Happy Adventuring!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
What should go in an adventure game?
To create an adventure game, the following ingredients are required:
1) More than one character
2) Inventory items
3) Dialogue
3) More than one room or location. (It can be argued that an entire adventure game can take place in one room if it has a good story. Room escape games is another category entirely.)
4) One or more puzzles, if needed
5) Last, but not least: A GOOD STORY
Happy Adventuring!
1) More than one character
2) Inventory items
3) Dialogue
3) More than one room or location. (It can be argued that an entire adventure game can take place in one room if it has a good story. Room escape games is another category entirely.)
4) One or more puzzles, if needed
5) Last, but not least: A GOOD STORY
Happy Adventuring!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Favorite Adventure Game of All
It is "The Longest Journey" by Funcom.
The game is 13 chapters long. It has a excellent story, mature content and spellbinding graphics.
Buy it on EBay or in any store (Target, Best Buy, etc).
You won't regret it.
Happy Adventuring!
The game is 13 chapters long. It has a excellent story, mature content and spellbinding graphics.
Buy it on EBay or in any store (Target, Best Buy, etc).
You won't regret it.
Happy Adventuring!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Sound puzzles
I detest sound puzzles in adventure games. When I come upon a sound puzzle, I search for a saved game slot on the Internet so I will be able to skip the puzzle.
I can think of two games with sound puzzles:
1. Ghost in the Sheet. A bone flute puzzle. You have to play five different flute sounds in order. If you are wrong, you have to start over.
2. AGON 3: Pirates of Madagascar. A monkey in tree puzzle. You have to locate the monkey in the jungle by listening to it's chittering.
The reason for my loathing of sound puzzles is that I am profoundly deaf.
End of rant.
Happy Adventuring!
I can think of two games with sound puzzles:
1. Ghost in the Sheet. A bone flute puzzle. You have to play five different flute sounds in order. If you are wrong, you have to start over.
2. AGON 3: Pirates of Madagascar. A monkey in tree puzzle. You have to locate the monkey in the jungle by listening to it's chittering.
The reason for my loathing of sound puzzles is that I am profoundly deaf.
End of rant.
Happy Adventuring!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Subtitles in Adventure Games 2 (Gabriel Knight 2)
One such game with no subtitles is Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within.
I was disappointed with the game after I uploaded the game to my computer from the 3.5 disks when I saw that there was no subtitles. That was in 1995. I sold the game to a local pawnshop. I played the first and third games in the Gabriel Knight series (The Sins of the Fathers, Blood of the Sacred - Blood of the Damned) with subtitles. I felt a gnawing emptiness since that time.
Fast forward to 2007: I happened upon a adventure game forum announcement about a subtitles patch for the Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within game. I quickly downloaded that. I searched on EBay to snap up the game. I downloaded the patch. I was very happy when the game opened with the subtitles on display.
I was able to put Gabriel Knight 2 on the completed adventures game list.
You can download the Gabriel Knight 2 subtitles patch: http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/GabrielKnightSeriesUpdates.html.
Happy Adventuring!
I was disappointed with the game after I uploaded the game to my computer from the 3.5 disks when I saw that there was no subtitles. That was in 1995. I sold the game to a local pawnshop. I played the first and third games in the Gabriel Knight series (The Sins of the Fathers, Blood of the Sacred - Blood of the Damned) with subtitles. I felt a gnawing emptiness since that time.
Fast forward to 2007: I happened upon a adventure game forum announcement about a subtitles patch for the Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within game. I quickly downloaded that. I searched on EBay to snap up the game. I downloaded the patch. I was very happy when the game opened with the subtitles on display.
I was able to put Gabriel Knight 2 on the completed adventures game list.
You can download the Gabriel Knight 2 subtitles patch: http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/GabrielKnightSeriesUpdates.html.
Happy Adventuring!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Subtitles in Adventure Games
I purchased Barrow Hill and installed the game on my desktop computer. When I looked at the options screen, the subtitles option was absent. I assumed that it could have been built in the game and started the game. To my dismay, the game was not subtitled at all. I uninstalled the game. I sold the game on EBay the next day.
To my delight, several developers put out demos of the adventure games. That way, I can check if the game has subtitles. Otherwise, I take the risk of buying the game and then look at the manual or options screen for the subtitles option. If there is no subtitles option, I sell the game the next day.
So I beseech all adventure game developers to put subtitles in the adventure games. Subtitles can help with the voices of the characters if the voices are hard to understand.
If you, game developers, put the subtitles in the games, you will make all of us (adventure gamers) very ecstatic.
Happy Adventuring!
To my delight, several developers put out demos of the adventure games. That way, I can check if the game has subtitles. Otherwise, I take the risk of buying the game and then look at the manual or options screen for the subtitles option. If there is no subtitles option, I sell the game the next day.
So I beseech all adventure game developers to put subtitles in the adventure games. Subtitles can help with the voices of the characters if the voices are hard to understand.
If you, game developers, put the subtitles in the games, you will make all of us (adventure gamers) very ecstatic.
Happy Adventuring!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Walkthroughs...
Today, we are lucky to be able to find a walkthrough to any adventure game on the Internet.
Before there was an Internet, we had to call a toll number to get a hint or mail in a money order/check to get a hintbook.
After I became an AOL user in the late '90s, I found hints to adventure games on Universal Hint System website (http://www.uhs-hints.com/).
As the years pass by, I have found more adventure game walkthrough websites.
They are:
GameBoomers Walkthroughs (http://www.gameboomers.com/walkthroughs.html)
GamesOver Walkthroughs (http://www.gamesover.com/oplossingen.htm)
Just Adventure+ Walkthroughs (http://justadventure.com/Walkthroughs.shtm)
The Spoiler Centre (http://www.the-spoiler.com/)
Or you can simply Google up an adventure game walkthrough!
Happy Adventuring!
Before there was an Internet, we had to call a toll number to get a hint or mail in a money order/check to get a hintbook.
After I became an AOL user in the late '90s, I found hints to adventure games on Universal Hint System website (http://www.uhs-hints.com/).
As the years pass by, I have found more adventure game walkthrough websites.
They are:
GameBoomers Walkthroughs (http://www.gameboomers.com/walkthroughs.html)
GamesOver Walkthroughs (http://www.gamesover.com/oplossingen.htm)
Just Adventure+ Walkthroughs (http://justadventure.com/Walkthroughs.shtm)
The Spoiler Centre (http://www.the-spoiler.com/)
Or you can simply Google up an adventure game walkthrough!
Happy Adventuring!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hello
I have decided to start this Avid Adventure Gamer blog to put down my thoughts, rants, raves, and comments on past, present and future adventure games.
My first adventure game was Manhunter New York by Sierra way back in 1984. I had come upon a college dorm resident playing this game in his room. He showed how the game was played. I was hooked. I went to Egghead Software to purchase the game and finished it within a week. Later that month, I noticed that a couple was playing another computer game. It was King Quest III: To Heir Is Human. I bought, played and loved the game.
Ever since that time, I have played over three hundred adventure games.
Happy adventuring!
My first adventure game was Manhunter New York by Sierra way back in 1984. I had come upon a college dorm resident playing this game in his room. He showed how the game was played. I was hooked. I went to Egghead Software to purchase the game and finished it within a week. Later that month, I noticed that a couple was playing another computer game. It was King Quest III: To Heir Is Human. I bought, played and loved the game.
Ever since that time, I have played over three hundred adventure games.
Happy adventuring!
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