Point-and-click Passion
Hey, Dim here again. I wanna show you all the main reason I ended up doing this kind of work.
This game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is the beginning of it all. It wasn’t the first game I played but the it was probably the first that I really felt connected to. Anyway, You’ve all seen people raving about it before. Its a classic LucasArts adventure game, a genre that has sadly become very rare these days. The genre itself, along with Capcom’s Phoenix Wright, caused Tom and I to create our own homage game, “Detective Grimoire”. We’re planning on, one day, producing a sequel to that game but right now all plans are still just ideas, and thats the way I like it. I did draw up a couple of backgrounds for a possible Grimoire 2, though. I won’t show them all but here’s one…Its only small because I don’t want to give away too much of it.
This was one of the styles I developed, a filter heavy, detailed style that seemed to work sometimes and other times look horrible. I really wanted to produce something a little more stylised, in the way that Monkey Island 3 does it. But you know, original.
Anyway, I love playing games like these and my favourite Flash incarnation of the genre is Holy-Howard’s “Legacy of Pliskin”. The games have a wonderful charm to them and the voicework really delivers the sort of atmosphere that makes these games great. If you’ve got a minute, go play them! (particularly part 2). The graphics aren’t amazing but theres definately a certain amount of care that has gone into it. It looks like a Flash game but it feels as cool as an old fashioned PC game.
If you’re a fellow Adventure game fan and you’re a little sad to see that Lucasarts seems to have given up with the genre, don’t worry! There are a fair few Point-and-clicks on the way. The most exciting of all has to be “A Vampyre Story” By Autumn Moon Entertainment. Its all hand-drawn - very little 3D. It seems to be a completely old fashioned point-and-click adventure! You’ve probably never heard of Autumn Moon Entertainment but don’t worry - Its headed by Bill Tiller, an ex-Lucasarts genius who was behind games like “The Dig.”
-Dim
The characters in the Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis game were fantastic. Sophia was a very memorable character for me, specifically in the moment where you had to switch to Sophia to persuade Costa to give up more information… since Costa would only divulge information to a female character. Small hooks like this really define memorable gameplay.
Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max hit the Road are my two favorite though.
When I first heard that they were making a 4th Indy movie I secretly hoped it’d be Fate of Atlantis. Has no-one told Lucas and Spielberg that its actually the coolest Indiana Jones story?
Day of the tentacle and sam max were really awesome. I got all those games in like this 6-in-1 package when i was a kid, had lots of fun with it
“Maniac Mansion” or whatever that was called totally freaked me out though….