I’m excited to announce the release of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland – An Interactive Storybook. The free “game” features a point-and-click style interface with which you can interact (look at, touch, and talk to) every item in a given scene. I built the game around my own Alice In Wonderland inspired artwork & designed it using a great piece of software called Adventure Game Studio.
AGS was created to assist in designing retro point-and-click adventure games in the style of the old LucasArts and Sierra games (King’s Quest, Full Throttle, Sam & Max, Woodruff and the Schnibble, Maniac Mansion, all those great Indiana Jones games… and lots of my other ancient favs). I absolutely love the game designer & am already looking foward to my next project with it, which will ideally incorporate more traditional game elements than this simple storybook did.
In any case, the interactive storybook is now available for free worldwide and can be downloaded from the links below. The program is meant to run on Windows, but there have been ports of the AGS system for both Macintosh and Linux. I’ll have links and download & installation instructions for both of these operating systems shortly…
Lewis Carroll’s
Alice In Wonderland
an interactive storybook
featuring artwork by Kenneth Rougeau
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(127mb ZIP file)
Download from:
downloads.cnet.com
(no waiting, no pop-ups)
or you can get it from these other locations:
Mirror #1
Mirror #2
or
Mirror #3
The game is meant to run in fullscreen mode, but can be changed to windowed mode by using the supplied configuration utility (winsetup.exe). Windows users can also use the configuration utility to control a few other options, as well as to choose a preferred language (Mac & Linux users, I’ll have information soon). At this time, I’ve translated the game (badly, using Google) into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese (for my friends at The Lewis Carroll Society Of Brazil). If you’d like to see the program translated into any additional languages, please let me know & I’ll be happy to see what I can do.
Please keep in mind that this is my first software release (currently v0.9b) and that there may still be a few bugs in the system. If you’d like to help make this software better, please email me the details of any bugs or other problems you encounter, any spelling errors or typo’s that you discover, or generally anything else you see that might need to be fixed. You can reach me by emailing synchronicity313@hotmail.com
I hope you enjoy my first program & that it gives you &/or your kids something fun to do for an hour or two. I’m already making notes for the next version, which will ideally include the full text of Alice In Wonderland and incorporate my Through The Looking Glass series of artwork as well. I’m hoping to have more dialog in v1.0, more interactions, more “polished” voices, sounds and music, and more game-like elements and activities… (I went out of my way to keep it simple this time, as this was my first experience with using this game designer – that said, I think it’s a pretty solid little program!)
If you’d like to see more of my artwork, please drop by and visit my ArtFire store:
http://krougeau.artfire.com
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Tags: adventure game systems, ags, alice in wonderland, children, interactive storybook, kenneth rougeau, lewis carroll, original artwork, point and click games, software, Video Games, windows games
