Winterscum!

ScummVM have announced beta testing for their incoproration of the Wintermute engine! Go and play!!

The Blackwell Amulet

Uhfgood's been busy reviewing again. He's covered commercial AGS game The Blackwell Legacy and also the Wintermute game Five magical Amulets.

Psychonauts: The Adventure Game

Some of you may recall AGS Award winning game Murder in a Wheel, created by Renzo "Eshaktaar" Thönen. Well, he left the path of light that is AGS and went to the dark side that is Wintermute. Once there, he produced a 2.5D adventure called Mental Repairs Inc. By all accounts, it seems to be pretty good!

Wintermute goes open-source

Mnemonic, the guy behind Wintermute (the OTHER Adventure engine!) has announced that its is open-source from now on and he's working on a new engine codenamed WME2!

Knock Knock, Who's there? Doctor...

Doctor Who fans may enjoy Strange Change a whovian parody written in Wintermute by Fireside 7 games.

Do Squinkies dream of electric insects?

Sometime AGS forum member, adventure architect and AdventureGamers writer Squinky has just released Des Rêves Élastiques Avec Mille Insectes Nommés Georges, whose name looks much more sophisticated in French. It's not done in AGS, but we'll forgive her.

Games pages

While googling to try and find non-AGS release to blog about, I realise that its quite hard. Perhaps one of the unsung advantages of AGS is that it has a proper games database that by-and-large reflects finished games that one can download and play with direct links (mostly) and you can list chronologically, to see what's new.

Wintermute's site has a list of games that are not in chronological order, may or may not be finished (how up to date is it? hard to tell) and you have to trawl through a site first to actually get to the download. Lassie has some direct links, but is also cluttered with unfinished projects and is not available in chronological order. SLUDGE and all other engines don't seem to have games released at all in 2007, let alone 2008... so its very hard to tell what cool stuff has come out from other engines recently. Devotees of other engines, please put me right if I've missed such a resource somewhere: I'd love to have access to it.

However, if you can call "escape the room" adventures adventures, then the lists at Shut In and Escape Games 24 are pretty good.