Okay, I just played a really fun freeware game

[xiphias]

It's a Sierra-style point-and-click adventure. It's freeware -- they just ask that, if you like it, you tell all your friends. So I am.

It was written in AGS, which is a development environment for making Sierra-style point-and-click adventures, and has nearly professional production values. I mean, for 1998 or so. It was apparently a senior project at Yale. I hope it was for a writing class or something, because programming in AGS isn't very challenging from a technical point of view, but WRITING an adventure game IS very challenging. And they did a marvelous job -- plot, puzzles, jokes, voice actors, cartoony graphics, and all.

If you've got a PC, and speakers, and a fast enough net connection that you can reasonably download 117 MB, and enough disk space that you can reasonably store 117 MB, then I highly recommend it. It follows the adventures of a teenaged girl who, instead of being sent to Miss Pernilla's Institute for Unwifely Women (A Facility for Correctional Charm), is accidentally sent to the Amazonian rainforest to foil the plot of the evil Baron von Dusseldorf.

http://www.gregames.net/dusseldorf.zip

Comments

[navrins]

Cool.

I can't seem to find foam. A clue would not be unwelcome.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Close the door in the shop. It's on the counter, behind the door.

Now, GETTING it is another problem. . .

[navrins]

Thank you! Perfect clue.

[navrins]

Hmm. So, later, I'm in a room containing HJP0 and HJP1. When I pick up either one (yes, I arrange to be able to pick up HJP1) or both, my inventory then contains HJP0 and not HJP1, with no explanation. Did you encounter this problem and work past it in some puzzle-related way? It feels like a bug.

Obviously, I'm enjoying the game.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wasn't able to directly pick up HPJ I -- I needed to get HPJ 0 and swap it for HPJ I, using the time-honored "Look, a monkey!" gambit. What does Dr. Parthenogenesis say about your copy?

It may be a bug -- I don't remember it doing anything like that to me.

[navrins]

Ah, okay. I thought of the swap but didn't try it (though I did use the monkey trick for another purpose). I wonder if I can still do it after the state change.

No, I can't. Fortunately, I saved a while back.