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No-Action Jackson - Graphic Adventuring Up Geekdom 32

Posted by simoniker from the where's-the-cheetos? dept.
digitaltacoGSI writes "Fans of LucasArts-style adventure games (Monkey Island, Day of Tentacle, etc) would be wise to check out the brand-new, freely downloadable PC graphical adventure entitled No-Action Jackson, from independent developer Britton O'Toole. The story revolves around a young nerd -- Jackson -- who must escape the confines of his house and free his friends from their daily activities in order to make it to their D&D sessions at the local comic book store. It's very funny, very professional, has a great old-school look, and includes some very difficult puzzles." Judging by the positive reactions on AGSForums.com, this is well worth checking out.
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  • Awesome (Score:4, Funny)

    by Lane.exe ( 672783 ) on Tuesday June 08, 2004 @12:05AM (#9362702) Homepage
    But does it contain grog recipes?

  • Um.. no thanks. (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    What's wrong with this picture:

    Download and run this 6MB Windows executable that's hosted on a site without a domain name!

    No thanks, but I'd like my Windows machine without what could very easily be a nasty custom virus disguised as a game.

  • Lack of innovation (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08, 2004 @01:13AM (#9363066)
    Yuck, what a common slashdot subject line. *hits anonymous*

    Seriously, though, "great old-school look" is what all these fan adventures do. I'd like to see one that looks like a Hieronymous Bosch come to life or something. With 1024x768 and 16.7 million colours to work with, there's no reason a 2-d graphic adventure couldn't come to life.

    I'm sure this one's great... but that's what happened to the whole genre. A quick glut of nearly identical games made 3-D seem like the only visual choice. Don't talk Grim Fandango... too little, too late, too "wishing to be real 3-D".

    • Re:Lack of innovation (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Dude, you don't diss Grim Fandango. You... you just don't.

      --
      M
    • Sanitarium [rr.com](a difficult to find game, but a fantastic gem). Old, so 8-bit graphics, but it doesn't use a Lucasarts look.

      Syberia.

      The Myst series (sans that recent MMORPG disaster -- I have no idea why they did that, as they had few concerns about pirating due to size anyway -- and without the antipiracy concerns, MMORPGs lose a lot of their publisher appeal).
    • Any time lack of innovation in adventure games comes up, we have to point out Gabriel Knight 3.

      Beautiful game in it's day. Took the Sierra style adventure game into a fully 3d environment and had an amazing story. However, it's release during the FPS/Action boom doomed it to failure. It came out even before the repopularization of RPG's, let alone adventure games. People saw "Sierra", "Gabriel Knight" and "Adventure" and said "Screw that, give me more FPS'".

      So even though it was one of the best adventure

  • Looks cool but... (Score:4, Informative)

    by Mish ( 50810 ) on Tuesday June 08, 2004 @01:22AM (#9363112)
    Although the game was written in Adventure Game Studio [adventureg...udio.co.uk] (which has a Linux client [warpcore.org]) the Linux client requires the raw .dat file, which the author hasn't supplied.

    The win32 version 'runs' under WINE but the mouse code in win32 AGS doesn't play nice with WINE, to the point of making the game unplayable. :(

    • Re:Looks cool but... (Score:3, Informative)

      by Khalek ( 161020 )
      When I last used the Linux port of the AGS interpreter some time ago it was able to use the information in the exe to play the game without the need for a .dat. I don't see why this behaviour would have changed.

      • Re:Looks cool but... (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Joe Tie. ( 567096 )
        This is the first time I've used AGS, so I'm hoping someone better informed might leap in to point out what I'm doing wrong. I ran the linux config program, then with current.exe from no-action in the same directory I tried ./ags and got "Main game file not found. This may be from a different AGS version, or the file may have got corrupted.".

        • Re:Looks cool but... (Score:3, Interesting)

          by Mish ( 50810 )
          Well, I personally couldn't get it working.

          As Khalek mentioned it 'should' work and shouldn't require the original .dat.

          1) Download and unpack the latest Linux client (2.60) [warpcore.org]
          2) Download and install Allegro 4.1 if its not already installed.
          3) Rename current.exe to ac2game.dat
          4) Run ./ags-setup to set ags up
          5) Start the game with: ./ags
          6) If it complains about a missing liballeg.so.4.1 then you may need to simlink/copy the 4.1 version of liballeg.so to whereever your system keeps its libs.

          The game ha

          • Re:Looks cool but... (Score:3, Informative)

            by Joe Tie. ( 567096 )
            Urgh, somehow I didn't notice this post! I missed the renaming of current.exe to ac2game.dat, and somehow didn't even notice the faq on the client page. I eventually found out by searching the ags board. It's working for me now using 2.60 and the redhat 9 allegro-4.1.11-1.i386.rpm from the client page, converted by alien to a deb and installed on Debian Unstable. It's not hanging x for me when run as a window, but I'm a bit too nervous to try full screen untill I can afford to have x crash around me.
    • I just put a bit of begging in on that topic. I was only able to get through the intro with wine as well, but what I saw really made me want to see the rest. Anyone given this a shot with WineX?
  • Because I'm stuck trying to open the bedroom window.
    Have my rope blanket but nothing to get the window unstuck.
    Oh well, ran without probs under WinXP

    Cheers VikingBrad

  • somebody made a video game about me (even got the name right!)
  • The link has exceeded it's bandwidth, can somebody mirror it or mail it to me ?

    Remco {AT} Palli [DOT] NL

    Thanks
  • There is a mirror available now at http://www.talesofinterest.com/no-action/

  • *mirror* (Score:4, Informative)

    by obscuriosity ( 762729 ) on Tuesday June 08, 2004 @04:30PM (#9369758) Homepage
    Since his site is completely borked. Here's a mirror. [talesofinterest.com] be gentle.
  • What!?

    Liberty in our Lifetime [freestateproject.org].

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