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Hi guys, Thought it might be fun to start an 'introduce yourself' thread for members. I know I love getting to know other Space Quest fans from around the world. Might be a nice place for new members to come as well to perhaps get to know others. Could sticky it if the thread takes off? Anyway, might as well kick things off. I'm a 25 year old male history teacher from a rural town in Australia and absolutely love video games, music, film, history and just geeky things in general. Basically I live out in the middle of nowhere in a mining town because our government here encourages new teachers to work rurally for a few years to gain permanent employment. Not so gre…

Good afternoon!!! I stumbled across this website via the Space Quest Wiki (shoutout to Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, the legendary Two Guys from Andromeda!). To my surprise, recent updates here revealed a Kickstarter for SpaceVenture—how exciting is that?! But here’s the real kicker: in the last 5 days, a cryptocurrency called Buckazoids launched, and it’s taken off like a rocket! Inspired by the iconic Space Quest currency, its design echoes the Bitcoin logo, sparking massive interest. The token’s market cap is holding steady at around $4 million, with $4.4 million in trading volume in just the past 24 hours. Over 16,000 people now hold Buc…

1996-1997 really was a great time for adventure games... Just after the FMV debacle and just before the mandatory 3D apocalypse...

So I know that basically no one ever visits this forum anymore, but I do and this made me smile 🙂 I saw this photo of the art team vacuuming the TNG set, and thought that I had to share. -E “rather clean the bridge than the holodeck”

I've got a Youtube Channel... I started it 8 years ago... and started slow... but the pandemic has brought me back to it. I grew up on Sierra games (you will see thumbnails with me in it, so you can see my greybeard! lol) And I've been replaying the games (some of them I've replayed plenty of times)... But on top of playing it, also doing commentary, as separate videos. So if you wanna see the video game play without me babbling, there's that option. I've knocked out King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Laura Bow, Phantasmagoria, etc. Still got plenty of games to go. Also took a break from Sierra and did all three Legend of Kyrandia…

I like to think about what other places in space look like so create these amazing galactic cities

My heavens, it's been a long time since I was here! Is there anyone still frequenting the forums these days? Aftera long hiatus, I happen to have stumbled upon the videos of the Space Quest Historian during my YouTube travels. So I got thinking of the good old times... And I'll be busting out the Space Quest series for another run soon! What's everyone else been up to? Brian

If you're ever bored and finding yourself with a lot of time on your hands... I introduce to you a project I started back in 2004 with a friend... It's 64 Episodes of Machinima. http://neverendingnights.com/ If you're wondering what Machinima is, we talk about it here: http://neverendingnights.com/about (along with some of the things we've accomplished!) One of the great things was having Al Lowe (who I think everyone recognizes?) and Greg Johnson (maybe not recognized by people - but you should know about the two funkiest aliens besides the Two Guys - being none other than Toejam and Earl) - Greg was one of the writers (and the voice of Earl, among ot…

Hello ! I'd like to present an old-school adventure game: Asylopole (inspired by classics such as Monkey Island, Space Quest, Blade runner, Sanitarium,...). On this project, I've been doing almost everything (story, writing dialogs, art, music,...). You can support the project on Kickstarter now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/282648360/asylopole-sci-fi-adventure-game Overview: Asylopole is a satirical old-school adventure game set in a dystopian future. You play the role of Adam Murdock, a psychiatrist working in a gigantic asylum. Get inside your patients’ heads to find out what’s gone wrong. Experience totally new universes and fight your patients’…

Hello Galactic adventurers! Today we would like show you something different. We are a small indie gamedev studio from Warsaw. For a past few months we have been working on Lemuria: Lost in Space - a space game with unique combination of point ‘n click adventure, survival and RPG. One of it’s gameplay features is hacking system that will challenge your maths and geographical skills (no time for Wikipedia because you are constantly running out of resources). http://imgur.com/cG3FvMp We will not give you a list full of links as we have no intention at all to SPAM. We are simply looking for people that may be interested in a small space indie game like this. If you want…

Looks to be some type of Star Wars costume event, but I was excited to see such a large advertisement for "Space Quest."

I figured there must be some degree of crossover between Space Quest and Star Control fans besides myself. If you've been completely out of the loop, Stardock acquired the rights to the Star Control games (but not all of the creative property) some time ago, and hit the streets with some new media last week related to their upcoming prequel "Origins." https://www.starcontrol.com/media If you played much Star Control 2 in the '90s, that brief teaser video might make you giddy. This is the most excited I've been about an upcoming game in a long time (frankly since some of my hopes for SpaceVenture began to wane) and I've become a "Founder" (basically a pre-order…

I'm officially announcing my upcoming game Cascade Quest, hopefully ready late this year! Details are here: http://www.icefallgames.com/CascadeQuest/ The early Space Quest series was probably my biggest inspiration in terms of humor and gameplay for this game. I'm using SCI Companion to develop it, and it runs inside the Unity engine. Please check it out, and follow @icefallgames on twitter for more information and screenshots!

Hey, guys! Just wanted to share with you the news that a game I've been composing music for for the past while, Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements by Himalaya Studios (aka AGD Interactive), makers of Al Emmo and the KQ and QFG2 remakes, is now a project up live on Kickstarter! Mage's Initiation is a classic-style RPG/Adventure game with hi-res graphics. Also, Daniel Stacey wrote and designed it. There are tons of rewards and stretch goals with loads of content and swag. I was surprised at the amount of physical rewards, actually! Take a gander. There's lots of sample content to gawk at as well as some preview tracks from the game. Please check it out and spread the …

Greetings! As you may have seen elsewhere on social media, several members of the Space Quest/adventure gaming fan community participated in the recent Adventure Jam event and created an original point-and-click adventure in just two short weeks. The end result is Late Last Nite, an adventure in excess -- available for download now! I'd provide some details on the plot, but I hate to spoil the surprises. Let's just say that things get weird. As for the familiar faces who worked on the project, there's Akril, Datadog, drdrslashvohaul, Frede, Resulka, Troels, and me. We invite you to play the game and let us know what you think! Oh, and if you feel inclined, …

Visit the SCI Companion for download links and more info: SCI Companion 3 I've spent much of the last year working on version 3 of SCI Companion, which now provides full support for creating and modding VGA Sierra games. It even includes a decompiler to reconstruct source code from old games! blurb from my website: ----------------------------- SCI Companion is a completely free IDE (integrated development environment) that lets you create games that run on Sierra’s SCI engine. SCI Companion 3 is now available, which offers support for SCI1.1+, which includes VGA graphics and digital audio. Create 16-color EGA graphical adventures with a text parse…

It’s finally here! This review/retrospective tackles why we loved Sierra games against the backdrop of King’s Quest 2015. It tries to provide tangible game design reasons about what made classic Sierra games special, with a particular focus on the special relationship between storytelling and puzzles. And of course a look at how KQ2015 measures up. Even if you don’t ultimately agree with my opinions, it should be a fun, nostalgic romp through Sierra games as it also tries to celebrate Sierra games and their creators. It contains clips from almost all the Sierra games (yes, lot's of Space Quest), interview excerpts from most of the original designers (yes, Mark Cro…

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let people know about a game that we’ve been working on for the last couple of years. I made a post quite a while ago about it but the project has changed significantly since then. It was a little slow to get off the ground but we’re finally at a point where production is really ramping up. We’re aiming for a December 31st release date for Chapter 1. Heavily inspired by Sierra & Lucasarts games of old, Exogenesis: Cryospore will be true science-fiction, exploring both the universe and the human condition. The first Chapter will see us introduced to Kayla, a 22-year-old biogenetics student who is on vacation visiting her …

I'm getting close to releasing my "review" I mentioned in the other thread. The word "review" probably doesn't quite do it justice because it is so unorthodox. So I made 3 teasers/trailers to try to help convey what this thing is. Even though King's Quest is in the title, there is quite a lot of Space Quest in it (as well as other Sierra games). I'm fairly confident classic Sierra fans will enjoy it. TEASERS for: Why We Loved Sierra Games: King's Quest MMXV: An Opinionated Review by a crotchety Sierra fan who remembers 1984 YouTube PlayList for all 3 teasers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ch6c8sFbA&list=PLPAVYgFfeddJEgkma-88EpzCdWSH03hFt&…

Hi all, I’m a dormant Sierra fan…I used to hang out at Quest Studios maybe 15 years ago. I’m planning to resurface briefly due to the new King’s Quest. I’m working on an unorthodox video review of King’s Quest 2015 from the perspective of a Sierra fan who remembers 1984. It’s actually turned into a stroll down memory lane of Sierra games and a tear down of how Sierra games actually worked, particularly the relationship between story and puzzles. So there are a lot of clips from many Sierra games. I expect(hope) Sierra fans will find it interesting, and unlike anything that has been done before. After about 3 months on this, I’m nearing completion and maybe it’…

Has anyone here been following it? It think it's pretty interesting view on how he designs adventure games. Even if the game would end sucking hard, at least the process of how he will get there will be very interesting to see, if he keeps up the pace he's been posting stuff of the progress of things. http://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/

Just curious if people are playing other games besides waiting for more Space Quest-y goodness. I myself recently (last month...) finished being disappointed with Mass Effect 3 and have been lapsing into SSB Brawl matches. Is there anything else interesting out there?

Which do you prefer? Why?

I just caught wind of this. Gamespot - Defunct Publisher Reveals New Website At the moment, nothing else has been announced. More will be revealed at Gamescom 2014.

I think I forgot to mention it here, but Frede and I are doing a little podcast on the side where we bitch and rant about adventure games in general. It's a phenomenally low-effort kind of affair, so you may have to get used to the audio quality. It is quite literally produced by me calling up Fred, recording the call on my phone (using the Record My Call app) and then throwing the whole thing online without any editing. It does, however, boast a pretty kick-ass chiptune intro theme by MusicallyInspired. Check it out: http://backseatdesigners.podbean.com RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackSeatDesigners It's on Stitcher, too: http://www.stitch…