Adventureland XL: A living legend needs us!
Dear community,
when thinking of the adventure game industry, one name invariably comes to mind: Scott Adams, co-founder of Adventure International, author of such memorable titles as Pirate Adventure, Strange Odyssey and The Golden Voyage. Before there was Infocom, there was Scott Adams. Here's the good news: He's still around, and he's still making games.
His most recent release, produced by his new company Clopas LLC, is a Conversational Adventure™ game named Escape The Gloomer. The action takes place in the Redwall universe, and the Alexa version, currently only available in the US, is fully accessible for blind players.
Right now, the Clopas team is working on a remake of the classic Adventureland, which was the first commercial adventure game authored by Scott. Don't be fooled by the word "remake" however: While the locations and objects of Adventureland are serving as inspiration, the experience will be vastly different from, and technologically far superior to, the venerable original from the late seventies. No prior knowledge of the genre is required, yet oldschool adventurers will find enough nuggets of lore to rekindle their fondest memories.
In addition, Clopas is currently in the process of making their game engine blind-accessible on mobile and pc platforms, so we can fully enjoy the games even without Alexa. Having played the pc version in its current semi-accessible state, I can assure you it meets the expectations I'm setting here.
This is where we as a community come in, because without our support it's not going to happen. By supporting the project on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Clopas we can become the change we'd like to see, and help remedy the lack of good games we've been complaining about. Let's make sure this works out!
Finally, I'd like to stress I am writing this purely out of respect and admiration for Scott and his work. I am receiving no personal benefit whatsoever except the piece of mind that comes with supporting one of the greatest loves of my life: Interactive fiction.
May adventures never cease,
Eternal Gamer aka Endarion
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