No-Action Jackson - Graphic Adventuring Up Geekdom 32
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.
Awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Um.. no thanks. (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Um.. no thanks. (Score:2, Funny)
Rob
Re:Um.. no thanks. (Score:3, Insightful)
Funnest. Trojan. Ever. (Score:2)
Lack of innovation (Score:4, Interesting)
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)
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Re:Lack of innovation (Score:2)
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).
Re:Lack of innovation (Score:3, Insightful)
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)
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)
Re:Looks cool but... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Looks cool but... (Score:3, Interesting)
As Khalek mentioned it 'should' work and shouldn't require the original
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
5) Start the game with:
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)
Re:Looks cool but... (Score:1)
Re:No-fun Jackson is more like it. (Score:2, Informative)
Brings back memories (Score:2)
Have my rope blanket but nothing to get the window unstuck.
Oh well, ran without probs under WinXP
Cheers VikingBrad
How to unstick the window (Score:2)
Re:Bandwidth Limit Exceeded (Score:2, Informative)
it's about time... (Score:1)
Mirror anyone? (Score:2)
Remco {AT} Palli [DOT] NL
Thanks
Mirror (Score:1)
*mirror* (Score:4, Informative)
What? (Score:1)
Liberty in our Lifetime [freestateproject.org].