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(re: re: Shareware 3d Game Engine)
I agree with you on AGS – lots of good stuff is made with it, including (so far) all of Tierra’s games. You might also want to check out http://www.agsforums.com, where you can see a bunch of the games made for it with a bit of digging.
However, from the subject of the original message, you seem to be looking for an engine for pure 3d games, and AGS is currently capable of running old-style graphics. You can, of course, pre-render to get the illusion of 3d, but it’s not the same.
Here’s a few places you might check out, though I don’t know how well they work or how simple they are – search engines are just spiffy!
3dGameStudio:
http://www.conitec.net/a4info.htm Genesis3d:
http://www.genesis3d.com/download.php Crystal Space 3d:
http://crystal.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php And of course, you can always use the kits that come with certain games, if you own ’em. Morrowind, Unreal Tournament, I think Half-life has one, Dungeon Siege (Not exactly what I would use), etc.
And of course, if you’re going to make a 3d game – you’ll want a 3d designing program.
Maya:
http://www.alias.com3d Studio Max:
http://www.discreet.com/ You can really only get trials or buy ’em, and they’re way expensive to buy… but there’s always free programs hidden around the web. I’m sure you can find those on your own. 😉
(re: Biography)
This is her son, i logged into her account rather then creating my own account..
Thank you for the info
i found more then enough info, it was simply that my teacher made us have: 4 website resources, 5 periodicles, and one book…which is why we requested the bio, hopefully, seeing as YOU posted this, she will allow me to use it.Thanks,
Jeff(re: Funniest Leisure Suit Larry Moments)
I remember the day I played Leisure Larry 7. The jokes were funny, but only worth a chuckle or two. Totally unphased by the humor, I (Larry) asked Peggy about Captain Thygh, then took a swig of soda. “Captain <****>-sucker, ya mean?!” I don’t quite remember what happened next, but the next day, I had to replace my keyboard and clean up quite a liquid mess. I’m still not quite sure what was so funny about that, but it still makes me laugh. ^_^
(re: RE: You fell off KENNY BOY!! YOU FELL OFF!!!)
For Tony –
There is absolutely no reason for you to insult Ken like you have been, nor to lose your respect for him. It seems to me that he has always done what he thought was best for everyone – gamers and employees alike – and while mistakes were made, negative hindsight is both useless and hypocritical, as -everyone- makes mistakes.
I have strong doubts that Ken ever wanted to sell Sierra, and I feel that he did so because he felt it was the only thing left for him to do at the time. It is hardly Ken’s fault that Forbes basically betrayed him and Sierra. Ken is not the one to be blaming here.
He is still a person to be respected. Think about what your gaming life would’ve been without him. Sierra was one of the biggest impacts on Adventure gaming. Heck, we probably wouldn’t even have Half-life today if Sierra hadn’t existed to be bought out in the first place.
So, instead of focusing only on what went wrong, as our species’ dear politicians have an exceedingly disgusting tendency to do – you should think about what went right. A lot of good things game from Ken, Roberta, Lori and Corey, Al, Josh, and all of the rest. For us imperfect humans, they did a pretty darn good job with what they had.
Adios,
Kyle(re: re: KQ4 Rare Cover (supposedly the first cover of the game))
Yes the one of Lolotte.
Hmm. Well If anyone can find it for me that would be ever so greatly appreciated!
(re: re: Let’s make it more comfortable.)
To Ken:
Sorry for delay with reply. I was on a little vacation.As you wish. I’m not persist, just offer you.
But you are the boss.To King Rygar:
No, it’s not bad but uncomfortable for me to read the massage tree.(Sorry for my bad English.)
(re: Biography) Are there any books about you and/or by you so my son can do a biography?
The best (and worst) reference is a book called Hackers, by Steven Levy. But, that said, it focuses primarily on life at Sierra when the average age of our engineers was about 18, and I was around 21. Imagine the movie Animal House, and you have some sense of why it wouldn’t be good to give your son this book. You’ll be pleased to know that in the 30 years since Hackers I’ve matured, and am much less fun to be around.
I wrote one book on programming the Apple II – called Apple II Graphics. It doesn’t have too much biographical information in it, but is great if you are curious about how animation was done during prehistoric times.
There have been several books which have a page or two devoted to Sierra, or Roberta and myself. Doug Carlston of Broderbund wrote one. Also, the book that is out now about the founders of Id has several pages about me. My guess is that there are at least dozens of books that have a few pages devoted to Sierra’s history.
My suggestion: have your son read through this board, and type my name in on google. This will provide MORE than enough material.
-Ken W
PS Here’s my bio, just to make it simpler for him:
Born: 10/30/1954 in Evansville Indiana Graduated High School a year early, and straight into college at 16! After being a super-star in highschool, I did poorly in college. I was too young to be in college, and was spending too much time with my girlfriend (Roberta). I majored in Physics, and was carrying a C average. Roberta and I married on Nov 4th, 1972. I had been 18 for five days. During my third year of college, Roberta decided it was time to start a family, and that I needed a real job asap. Roberta had been supporting us while I went to school. I also worked various part-time jobs to help pay the bills. I was forced to drop out of college to go to programming school. My favorite college course was a computer programming course. This was 1973, and mainframe computers were just becoming popular. Our college had one, and it was love at first site. I attended a nine month programming trade school, Control Data Institute, in Los Angeles, and graduated top of my class. It was obvious I had a knack for programming. From about 1973, when I finished CDI to 1979 when I started Sierra, I worked for about anyone who was doing anything with computers in Los Angeles. I had a series of full-time programming jobs, and rose quickly through the ranks – but, the more interesting story is the night-time work I did. In those days, software engineers were in extreme demand. I contracted for everyone; Warner Brothers, Groman Mortuaries (don’t ask), McDonnell Douglas, Bekins, Sterling Computers, even Fredericks of Hollywood! My last full-time job was for a company doing compiler development. Roberta’s and my goal was to get out of Los Angeles, almost from when we first met. Sierra was started primarily because we “wanted to live in the woods”. Our goal in life was a quiet log cabin at Yosemite to raise our kids. Immediately after starting Sierra we moved to Yosemite, raised our family, and the company grew. We started with just us, and finished as a public company with 1,000 employees. I was Sierra’s Chairman and CEO throughout the 18 year period from 1979 to 1996. Although I was technically a bureaucrat, I delegated the paper shuffling to the greatest extent possible, and was VERY involved in building product. When the company was sold in 1996, we were the leader in consumer software, and had distribution in virtually every country in the world. One of Sierra’s greatest achievements was The Sierra Network (later renamed the Imagination Network). This was my pet project. We had 10,000 people linked playing games years before the internet was born! After Sierra was sold, I stayed on with the acquiring company for a couple of years to build one of the first internet-shopping systems. It was very successful (
Link: http://www.netmarket.com(http://www.netmarket.com)
) After retiring in 1998, I became quickly bored, and started a dot-com called Talkspot, to do entertainment broadcasting on the web. Our programming was awesome, and we were growing like weeds, but our business model didn’t make sense, and we couldn’t sell ads. Talkspot was transformed to a company which did paid broadcasting for companies trying to reach large audiences, and renamed WorldStream. We were doing such fun things as broadcasting trade shows for phone companies. It wasn’t the right business for me. I retired again, and the board brought in a new CEO. The internet crash happened about a year later, and took WorldStream with it. Currently, I’m mostly just travelling, although I am working on a website generator – which is the code behind this website. I don’t get much time to code, so not too much is happening with this project, and I doubt much will ever happen with it. It’s a fun hobby…. Most of my days are spent playing golf and tinkering with my computer. Roberta and I are serious about boating, and are taking our boat across the Atlantic this summer. I’m starting to put a lot of effort into preparing for that. Lastly: we live mostly in Mexico (Cabo). We have a home in Seattle, which we spend too little time at, and a boat slip in France (near Monaco) which we’re thinking of selling. I speak french, and love france, but the recent political environement has dampened my enthusiasm for living there.(re: re: New Layout – Today Only) Oops — in trying to post a message I realized that the new layout had problems. I just switched back to the boring black layout.
I’ll get the other layout fixed (mid-next week) and put it back…
Sorry…
-Ken W(re: New Layout – Today Only)
Cool layout! The menus are great! maybe you could keep the way they look (after they open)+take from that last layout (1/1/2004) the stripes+ we’re getting somewhere..
-Eyal
(re: New Layout – Today Only)
Looks good to me. Maybe someone around here knows about web graphics and can delete or replace the flowers with something. I think you should leave it like this for now, it’s very easy on the eyes.
Did you change the colors of the message board text? Everything is black text now. Took me a few seconds to find the “Reply to this message” because it blended in.
I just found this place yesterday. Its going to be exciting to see it grow.
(re: Cartridge Based (KQ5))
Brad, you must have everything! You really must start sending me scans! Heh, I guess that’ll happen the day I start sending you scans 🙂 Yeah, of course I’m interested in the KQ1 SMS too. I did mention that I got a ROM for the KQ1 SMS, right? And I started doing screenshots of that, which I’ll continue doing. I don’t know what happened to the guy who was doing KQ5 NES screenshots, haven’t heard an update from him. Alright, I’ll try to keep my KQ5 NES sealed 🙂
(re: re: Cartridge Based (KQ5)) Brandon,
I have a KQ5 NES in my collection. I’ll dig it out.. I have the box, and I am pretty sure I have the instructions. Let’s keep yours sealed for future Sierra buffs. =)
-Brad
EDIT: Brandon, just checked – I do have KQ5 NES with box / cartridge / slipcover / and silver instruction booklet – mint condition. If you have any other sealed items, let me know about them and I will see if I have any of them open already in the Sierra Vault, so you can leave yours sealed =) I also have the KQ1 SMS release too, if you are interested in that – I know there was a discussion about it.(re: re: King’s Quest 9) I was just on the KQ9 website. You are right — I had previously thought it was being done by Tierra.
The game looks interesting. It looks like they’ve been doing this long enough that if Sierra were going to try to shut them down, they would have already done so.
I’m looking forward to seeing the game.
-Ken W(re: Cartridge Based (KQ5))
Ooh, I’m so excited. I got a sealed copy of KQ5 for NES. I’m so excited I don’t know whether to open it or to leave it sealed! Normally I’m someone who opens sealed packages, allowing for scanning of the package contents, but then makes sure to protect all the contents. But this one just seems so much rarer that I’m almost starting to subscribe to the true collector’s philosophy of not opening it!
(re: King’s Quest 9)
This has already been discussed… so I just moved your post into the existing discussion, and now you can see that Ken made some comments on it previously (though at the time, he was mixed up thinking that Tierra was KQ9 – that may have been due to the original post though).
(re: A very special thank you, which you`d be suprised to hear, Ken!)
Reading this made my day too! Im am 19 male from Boston massachusetts. I havent really played any video games since the industry “killed” the adventure genre.
What really made me smile is picturing someone on the other side of the world playing QFG4.
(re: Police Quest Collection ver 2)
If you want to buy the manuals for the collection version i´ve seen them several times at a great online bookstore called alibris.com, i´ve seen both manuals that came with collection (US version), the 4 Most Wanted and the SWAT manual.
(re: Blue Force)
now they make decision based simulations for company employees. Nice company traning, being from an ex-sierra based company.
(Kings Quest 9)
I realize you all know about Tierra and its remakes but do you know about Kings Quest 9. It looks amazing. Many people actually flew/drove to New York city to attend the voice auditions. Looks pretty professional. Its a completly new plot, what do you (Ken) and Roberta think about this?
The KQ9 website: http://www.kq9.org/
A PDF magize article with screenshots:
http://www.justadventure.com/TheInventory/Inv7.zip (re: re: re: A very special thank you, which you`d be suprised to hear, Ken!) This story reflects how really Sierra, inspired by Ken, had been a company with intrests and intentions more then just doing best-sellers games; every game was a world of itself, the customer support was way beyond something you can find today, welcoming and helpful, including utilizing the postal mail to send bug-fixes and everything.. absolutly wonderfuly..
“We are deeply saddened by all the problems in the middle east, and keep hoping things will calm down during our lifetimes – which is unlikely. One of our favorite vacation destinations is Dubai, but I wouldn’t go there now. Roberta has already said that we are going to Iraq as soon as its safe to go”
I really wouldn’t say it’s unlikely in this lifetime.. it always looks worst when looking from afar (to demonstrate, when were the last bad news you heard from Israel?), the hi-tech industry advanced is well developed (for example, all the big detailed images NASA recieves from Spirit vehicle sitting in “Colubmia Memorial site” on Mars, is thanks to compression algorithems developed by Israeli company) and life goes on pretty normal.
I join the rest inviting you to visit Israel (if you like Dubai, I am certain that you will love the city of Eilat!) there are many hot-spots like the Dead-Sea, Galilee region, Hamat Gader …
-Eyal
(‘soundscape’)
First of all thanks for your time and answers.
With this term soundscape I’m meaning whole aural part of game (fx, music and ambience sounds). I’m pretty sure that you can’t find that word from any dictionary (at least not in this meaning), it’s just something that I made up.
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(re: re: re: Blue Force)
Greetings,
I found the game credits I attached the link below.
Also they have now changed from Tsunami Media to Visual Purple.
(re: Manhunter section?) Alright, I removed the Manhunter Museum since it wasn’t getting any attention and moved this post into the Manhunter Chat, where there is more activity (I may do some further weeding of this post as well). Anything Manhunter Museum related can go into the “All Other Games Museum.”
Hey Banjo, any update on your idea for a Manhunter website? I borrowed your image to use it for this chat area, hope you don’t mind!(re: KQ4 Rare Cover (supposedly the first cover of the game)) Moved this into the chat area.
We’ve had this discussion before. No one seems to have a copy of this box cover other than the very small versions that have been shown in catalogues. Ken even thought he remembered who painted it, someone found that guy’s website, and I emailed him, but I never got a response.
