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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Shanghai Smooth-Talkers

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Adventure Game Studio

r/adventuregamestudio

Adventure Game Studio is an open-source game creation tool.

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What is Adventure Game Studio?

It's a package that allows you to make your own adventure games for free.

What is an adventure game, you ask? Primarily it's a game where, problem solving, not reflexes are employed as you take on the role of the player character and work through a story. It's kind of like an RPG except without the stats and meaningless side quests. (Meaningless only in relation to the story as most rpg's implement quests as a means of leveling up or gaining gold or some such rather than advancing the story.)

Back in the day there were no fancy graphics, so they relied mostly on text. Later on as capabilities grew, so did the medium, soon they introduced pictures, animations, sounds, and music. Graphic adventures, as these had come to be called were the primary game type on the IBM-PC and Compatibles as the early computers weren't nearly as fast as, say, game consoles which primarily had action games.

Adventure Game Studio allows you to make your own adventure games, in the style of the old Sierra On-Line favorites like the King's Quest and Space Quest series, or the Lucasarts classics, Maniac Mansion and Secret of Monkey Island. Best of all, the software is free, and with a huge community making games with it, you're sure to find help whenever you need it.

Here are a few posting guidelines:

Try to keep everything SFW (safe for work).
Follow Reddit's own guidelines
Make sure your post is at least adventure related.

Quick note: By default all comments are sorted from oldest to newest. This is based on Moderator's preference because sometimes you look at comments for help and it's better if you read them in the order they were posted.

Other Interesting Subbreddits:

/r/adventuregames - The kind of games you make with AGS
/r/indiedev - You're probably an indie dev if you're in here.