Remember the good old days, when adventure games challenged you with great puzzles and evocative descriptions without resorting to any graphics at all? We at ADVENTIONS really miss that emphasis on gameplay rather than glitz, and we're commited to writing new games that are even better than the early text games we liked so much.
We believe the best pictures are the ones you create in your own mind. And we know you'll be creating some pretty amazing pictures when you play our games.
And because our games' graphics and sound capabilities are determined by *your* hardware rather than your machine's hardware, our adventures will run on more machines than almost any other commercial games. At the time of this writing, we support PC's and clones; Macintoshes; the Atari ST, TT, and Falcon; Sun 3's and Sparcstations, DEC MIPS-based workstations runnng Ultrix, NeXT computers, Silicon Graphics workstations running Irix, 386+ PC's running Linux, and more. Amiga versions are in the works, as are versions for other Unix environments.
UNNKULIAN UNVENTURE SERIES
The Unnkulian Unventures are known world-wide for their excellent prose, witty irreverence, and top-notch full sentence command interface. Adventure game devotees raised on now-classic 80's interactive fiction praise these games for bringing challenging puzzles, vivid characters, and evocative writing back to the gaming world.
In "Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure" you play the part of Kuulest's slave, and must recover the Orb of Studosity from the evil Unnkulians. Kuulest, the old geezebag, has died and left you with nothing to go on but a cryptic message about saving the planet.
You'll encounter amazing Acme products, the infamous Guardian, those witty creatures known as Drolls, a giant beaver, and even the Dread Unnkulian Warrior. <Gasp!>
In "Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme" your adventure continues as you try to create some good press for yourself — wouldn't want to fade into anonymous obscurity, now would you? Along the way, you'll find the answers to these compelling questions, and more:
o What happened to the Unnkulians?
o Why are Acme products so bad?
o What is this cheez stuff, really?
Plus, you'll get to explore Dawg Rock, a Duhdist Retreat, Acme's clandestine prototypes laboratory, and even pay a visit to Acme HQ.
In "Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant," you'll play the role of a down-and-out Acme salesman, forced to work out of the Golden Dragon Inn, dangerously near Dread Unnkulia. Will you accumulate enough loot in this frightful backwater berg to turn your fortunes in your favor?
And in "Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda," will you, the Valley King's most trusted warrior, rescue his Lady Amanda from the gruesome clutches of the evil Unnkulians?
Along the way to victory (or, <shudder>, defeat!), you will:
o Find out about the ancient days of the Valley,
o Meet the King's faithful (but not so bright) Valley Patrol,
o Explore *beautiful* Lake Draounheer,
o Discover the ancient burial ground of your ancestors,
o Become frustrated with the pesky Stoll and his Stoll Bridge,
and, of course,
o Meet that wondrously wacky Wowsa Willy!
Further adventures in the ongoing Unnkulian saga are in the works, and with every new game you learn more about this mystifying (and hillarious) land and its inhabitants — benign and malevolent.
Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure (v3.0)
by D. A. Leary
$10 (Shareware)
Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme (v3.0)
by David Baggett
$10 (Shareware)
Unnkulia 1/2: The Salesman Triumphant (v1.0)
by D. A. Leary
Freeware
Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda (v1.0)
by D. A. Leary
Free playable demo available
$25 (Direct from ADVENTIONS, or through High Energy Software)
Available NOW for MS-DOS and Macinstosh
Available soon for Atari ST and Unix systems
Unnkulian Unventure III
(Work in progress)
Unnkulian Unventure IV
(Work in progress)
UNNKULIAN UNIVERSE UNVENTURE SERIES
A new chapter in the history of Unnkulia and the Valley unfolds in this exciting series. Find out what life is like on planet Tode (home to Unnkulia and the Valley) and the rest of the Unnkulian Universe 500 years after "Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure."
Written by a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, "The Legend Lives!" is a science fiction epic of unprecedented depth that explores what can happen when networks and software get too powerful to control. As hacker Gavin Kelly, you'll be at your wits' end tracking down and battling a terrifyingly powerful virus unleashed on AkNet, the known galaxy's information and service backbone. All the while, you'll have to thwart its creator's attempts to locate and terminate *you*.
While sticking to the often humorous style of the Unnkulian Unventures, "The Legend Lives!" nevertheless explores many serious themes about technology and its effects on society. "Legend" is not just a challenging and fun computer game; it is one computer science researcher's view of a future nearly destroyed by an entirely synthetic and subtanceless entity — a software construct.
The Legend Lives!
by David Baggett
$25 (Direct from ADVENTIONS, or through High Energy Software)
Available Fall 1993
OTHER ADVENTURES
"The Horror of Rylvania" is true gothic horror in an interactive fiction setting. A radical departure from the light-hearted Unnkulian series, "Horror" is not for the faint-at-heart.
What you expected would be a fun outing in scenic Rylvania turns into a gruesome nightmare, with *you* playing the starring role. Find out what it's like to be alternately the source and challenger of evil in the tiny Eastern European province. Test your very moral fiber as you decide to damn yourself and save others — or vice versa. "The Horror of Rylvania" will grip you like no interactive fiction ever has before.
The Horror of Rylvania
by D. A. Leary
(Now in beta-testing)
"Colossal Cave Revisted" is a remake of the first major adventure game ever written: Colossal Cave, otherwise known as "Adventure." The original Adventure was written in FORTRAN by Willie Crowther and Don Woods, and had only a simple two word command parser. Its descriptions were so vivid, however, that it captivated a generation of computer enthusiasts and quickly became part of the "hacker lore."
ADVENTIONS' implementation of this classic features the same excellent full sentence parser our other games use, and comes with complete source code. For those new to interactive fiction, "Colossal Cave Revisited" is a must-have.
Colossal Cave Revisited
by Willie Crowther and Don Woods
TADS version written by David Baggett
Freeware
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