robotspacer’s adventure corner

Current Schedule

Lamplight City

Continues Saturday, May 4 at 7 PM EDT

Consulting Detective Network on twitch.tv/silver_streak

I’m excited to join Silver for the launch of his new series, the Consulting Detective Network. Lamplight City is a 2018 point-and-click adventure game from Grundislav Games, developer of A Golden Wake and the upcoming Rosewater, among others. It’s described as a “steampunk-ish detective adventure” and we’ll be tasked with helping a private investigator “find justice for his clients and track down his partner’s killer before his entire world comes apart”. This stream will be over on Silver’s channel at Silver_Streak.

World Builder

Continues Friday, May 3 at 9 PM EDT

Now that we’ve completed Enchanted Scepters, let’s make our own adventure game in the engine that was used to create it: World Builder! World Builder was also created by William C. Appleton, and published by Silicon Beach Software in 1986. In 1995, Appleton released it as freeware. It can be downloaded from Applefritter or The Ray’s Maze Page, though you’ll need an older Mac to run it. The World Builder manual is available from the Museum of Computer Adventure Game History, and the freeware download includes additional documentation by Ray Dunakin.

There are a number games available that were created with World Builder, including several by Ray Dunakin and Louise Hope. Both developers also have modern versions available that you can play on a recent Mac or in a web browser.

For our World Builder game, I’ll start from scratch and take suggestion from everyone in Twitch chat. You can help decide the rooms, characters, and objects I use to create the world. We’ll use the game’s scripting language to create puzzles. When we’re finished, I’ll play through it on stream, and publish it here—though of course you’ll need a compatible Mac system to play it yourself.

Catch up on our World Builder streams

Catch up on my Enchanted Scepters playthrough

Maupiti Island

Continues Tuesday, April 30 at 9 PM EDT

Maupiti Island is a point-and-click detective mystery game, and a sequel to Mortville Manor. It was originally released for Amiga in 1990, then for DOS and Atari ST in 1991. I’ll be playing the DOS version for DOSember. Much like Murder Club, Maupiti Island is known for being among the most difficult adventure games ever made. It features beautiful VGA graphics, and uses a unique text-to-speech system to voice character dialogue.