King’s Quest 1: This is the intro scene to King’s Quest. If you walk directly south, you can die in less than ten seconds of playtime.
Probably a record.
Most King’s Quest players didn’t get too far, often just falling in the moat and dying. This pair of visitors managed to explore a good portion of the world (before falling in a river and dying.)
A new Space Quest Game - sort of
Another day, another Kickstarter campaign! Help fund the Two Guys SpaceVenture project from the creators of Space Quest. Watch the video below & then head on over here if you feel like chipping in.
Check out this band of miscreants!
“Lego Sierra Allstars” by Irishmile, featuring: Sonny Bonds, King Graham, Roger Wilco, Leisure Suit Larry & Gabriel Knight.
‘Grow up young lady,’
that’s what they all say.
‘It’s time to settle down;
put childish things away.
Aren’t you happy, thrilled, delighted?
You’re going to be a bride!’
Yes! I’m so excited
I want to run and hide!
I want to go to a land beyond dreams
where everything’s new
not really what it seems.
Enchantment, adventure,
are waiting for me.
I want that magic land.
A land beyond dreams.
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King’s Quest VII (via saintvalentino) Life GPOY. |
According to my dad and my memory, whenever I played any King’s Quest game without my dad or bother around I would just go to any area with nice music and listen to it the whole time.
Right in the nostalgia!
Precious <3
Submission: Did you know that Daventry is actually Finland?
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Neat! But I’ll need more evidence before I accept this theory~
More importantly, what on earth is that otter/seal/bear-like creature? It gives me chills.
The barest update on Telltale’s new King’s Quest game
Siliconera asked Telltale’s CEO Dan Connor about the status of their upcoming KQ game. Are you ready for this?!?
Can you tell us anything about King’s Quest? You guys got the license and you’re doing something with it, but we haven’t heard too much about it.
Yeah, you know, King’s Quest kind of came in with all of the other licenses at the same time. We’d already had the Universal stuff for a while and we were working on that, and then we signed King’s Quest around the same time as Walking Dead and Fables, and we’ve gone into production on both of those, and King’s Quest is one that we’ve been trying to figure out how to staff and get into production.
Do you have a vision for it?
That’s kind left for Dave Grossman and his group. We’ve certainly talked to a lot of people about it, but we really don’t have anything else to say about it right now.
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Well. And there you have it!
Holy crap my textbook for my Introduction to Computer Games class name drops King’s Quest V, in the chapter on game audio of all places.
“The introduction of the Adlib and SoundBlaster sound cards in 1989 was highly significant. Between this and the later adoption of the Roland MT-32 sound module…, PCs finally sounded like viable gaming machines…. Around the same time, we saw the introduction of faster 386 processors and VGA graphics cards-but you can’t have real gaming without real audio! Between the CPU, audio, and video innovations that opened up the platform for seriously talented developers at studios such as LucasArts, Origin, and Sierra to jump in and get to work. Soon, the PC catapulted to the front to the pack for computer gaming with titles such as Wing Commander, The Secret of Monkey Island I and II, Space Quest IV, King’s Quest V-all of which took special advantage of VGA graphics cards, 386 processors, and a slew of aftermarket sound boards. These innovations in turn led to Windows 95 and DirectX, which helped standardize game development and sealed the PC’s place at the top of the heap for over a decade. It’s only now that the latest round of consoles, with their high definition 1080p and 5.1-channel surround sound capabilities, can really threaten or (in some cases) surpass PC gaming.”
Are you fucking kidding me?
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“Roberta liked to just sit down with a huge piece of paper and map out a world - locations, where you pick up what, very basic characters. I’m much more of a detailed story/plotline kind of designer. But it was terrific to see her technique and I do still try to ‘back away’ to that high-level view and do that once in a while during my design process.
“[Roberta was] able to enforce her vision [while developing a game]. She’d write up pages and pages of very detailed comments and notes on each game build and, damn it, what she said went. [laughs] And she was - almost - always right. That gave me a lot of confidence once I had my own game to ask for what I know is the right thing for the game.”
— Jane Jenson (x)
