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Adventure Construction Set (1984)

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(Stuart Smith's) Adventure Construction Set

Developer: Stuart Smith / Jerry Boutelle
Release Year: 1987
Genre: Editor / RPG
Platform: PC
Edition: US

wikipedia.org: Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a program written by Stuart Smith that is used to construct tile-based graphical adventure games. ACS was originally published by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1984 on the Commodore 64, and was later ported to the Apple II, Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. It was one of EA's biggest hits of 1985, earning an SPA "Gold Disk" award. The program concept was inspired by the 1983 release Pinball Construction Set, and was produced by Don Daglow in parallel with the development of Racing Destruction Set. It provided a graphical editor for the construction of maps, placement of creatures and items, and a simple menu-based scripting to control game logic. A constructed game was stored on its own disk which could be copied and shared with friends, however for some ports (such as Amiga) the ACS software was still needed to play user-constructed games. Included with the system was a complete predesigned game called Rivers of Light, which was based on The Epic of Gilgamesh. It featured art by Smith and Connie Goldman and music by Dave Warhol (Goldman and Warhol also provided art and music respectively for Racing Destruction Set). The Amiga version of ACS featured art by Greg Johnson and Avril Harrison, and an additional pre-made adventure called "Galactic Agent" by Ken St Andre which was exclusive to that platform. ACS was designed to make tile-based graphical adventure games similar to Smith's earlier games Return of Heracles and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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