BENEATH A STEEL SKY SCUMMVM FOR FREE

And when it comes to talking to the grandfather of the adventure game about his genre's future, passions run high. So why now choose to bring it to the iPhone? And why charge players for the privilege? By combining a mobile telephone, a map and a diary, we solved these puzzles and more at a meeting with the game's creator and MD of Revolution Software, Charles Cecil.

BENEATH A STEEL SKY SCUMMVM FOR FREE

Nine years after its original release in 1994, British developer Revolution Software released the game's source code as freeware, to be offered for free to all users of ScummVM, the popular adventure game emulator. While less iconic than some of the LucasArts big-hitters, it is nevertheless the most widely played adventure game of all time. And as a slew of LucasArts and Sierra classics make their way onto the Steam download service, just as Monkey Island introduces a new generation of console gamers to insult sword-fighting, the genre is enjoying, if not a resurrection, then certainly something of a resurgence.īeneath A Steel Sky (BASS) is the latest venerable adventure game to undergo a nip and a tuck in preparation for re-release. From Broken Sword 4 to Grim Fandango to Zack & Wiki, new releases in the genre may be sparse but they are undeniably steady. Long pronounced dead, the adventure game never really departed.

If we had a new point-and-click adventure game for every time someone said: 'That was definitely the last point-and-click adventure game,' then we'd pretty much be where we are today.

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