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I gave Al Lowe a little prod (his words, not mine!), and he’s taken the time to do something he planned to do eventually but hadn’t gotten around to – he’s posted a number of COMPLETE design documents on his website! I originally asked Al to give them to me for this site, but of course since Al has got such a great, established site already, it only makes sense that he keeps his original material on his own site.
Just goto allowe.com and then from the Games menu, click on Game Designs. You’ll find there downloadable PDFs for Larry 5, 6, 7, and Casino, Freddy Pharkas and Torin’s Passage.
Meanwhile I’m coordinating further with Al to produce a definitive collection of special material – I can’t say when it’ll be available, but I just wanted to let you know that I’m holding true to my word to work hard in this project I’ve taken on, to make as much Sierra design material available to all the fans out there.
So be sure to drop Al an email to thank him for making the design documents freely available on his website! -
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Wow! Awesome stuff!!!
This is fantastic. Not only from an historical point of view is it interesting to see this, but it gives you a unique insight into the working process of a Sierra game designer. I guess each designer had their own way of doing it though, so I’d love to see someone else following up on this. For me personally, the golden treasure at the end of the rainbow would be an actual King’s Quest design document! 🙂
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hmm. i tried downloading them and acrobat reader wouldn’t read them – said it didn’t recognize the file format, even though the files were showing up as .pdf.
i have acrobat 4.0 — anyone know if i need to download 5.0 to read these? has anyone else been able to read them? i had the same problem with Freddy Pharkus and Torin’s Passage. couldn’t view them from within my browser either.
-emily
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(re: Al Lowe Design Documents) I’d really like to see some design documents from the older, parser-based games. LSL 1-3 or anything from the eighties or early nienties would be AWESOME!
Yeah Simon, me too. Al told me the problem is, other documents he has are in *really* obsolete formats. But I will be working with him to try and figure that out.
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