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xiphiasIt'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
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