The Adventure Game genre is saved!!!

Gudforby · Wed 01/06/2011 21:30:37

5 year old Sissy has made her own adventure game, Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure, with help from her father of course...

So that's the plan to save the Adventure Game genre from dying! We have to make a lot of AGS love-childs and train them up, and KAZAAAM! A whole new generation of adventure game and AGS-lovers <3

Igor Hardy · Wed 01/06/2011 22:18:02

Sweet, dream-like game that for some reason made me think of SSH's Princess Marian games.

Grim · Wed 01/06/2011 22:24:28

I promise to "train" my son in adventure games as soon as he gets past the "grab a fluffy chicken toy and repeatedly whack it on the floor as hard as you can" stage. I'd love to be able to raise my son to love games and make them with me!

My only fear now is that he might choose football, DIY and dance music instead....

Anian · Wed 01/06/2011 22:28:07

I like this girl, she uses frazes like "friggin'" and "let's get some" and included an evil lemon into the game.

Grim · Wed 01/06/2011 22:38:48

Just played and finished it. Absolutely figgin' lovely!

Gudforby · Wed 01/06/2011 22:53:57

BAM! Magical powes. Awww yeah! I agree. Friggin' lovely! The best part is the crazy childish logic.

Quote from: Grim on Wed 01/06/2011 22:24:28
I promise to "train" my son in adventure games as soon as he gets past the "grab a fluffy chicken toy and repeatedly whack it on the floor as hard as you can" stage. I'd love to be able to raise my son to love games and make them with me!

My only fear now is that he might choose football, DIY and dance music instead....

That's the plan for my daughter as well. but she's only 2 1/2 months, so she hasn't even started to grab fluffy chicken toys yet

Igor Hardy · Wed 01/06/2011 23:08:06

Quote from: Grim on Wed 01/06/2011 22:24:28
I promise to "train" my son in adventure games as soon as he gets past the "grab a fluffy chicken toy and repeatedly whack it on the floor as hard as you can" stage. I'd love to be able to raise my son to love games and make them with me!

My only fear now is that he might choose football, DIY and dance music instead....

You should fear that whatever you try to teach him, he'll choose the exact opposite.

Grim · Wed 01/06/2011 23:24:40

Quote from: Gudforby on Wed 01/06/2011 22:53:57

That's the plan for my daughter as well. but she's only 2 1/2 months, so she hasn't even started to grab fluffy chicken toys yet

Just play some Ben Jordan with her to start her off. I mean, on adventure games, not chickens (unless they're rubber!)

Quote from: Ascovel on Wed 01/06/2011 23:08:06

You should fear that whatever you try to teach him, he'll choose the exact opposite.

I fear that too.... That's why every morning I put on a pair of knee-high socks + stripy shorts and dance to Basshunter holding a hammer and a drill....

I think they call it ruse haha

Gudforby · Wed 01/06/2011 23:29:46

Quote from: Grim on Wed 01/06/2011 23:24:40
I fear that too.... That's why every morning I put on a pair of knee-high socks + stripy shorts and dance to Basshunter holding a hammer and a drill.... I think they call it ruse haha

Haha! Then one day he'll go "to hell with the football and all this manly things! I wanna make retro adventure games!"

Chicky · Wed 01/06/2011 23:31:47

I had to complete it twice because i realised i had the audio muted

Radiant · Thu 02/06/2011 01:04:46

Quote from: Gudforby on Wed 01/06/2011 21:30:37
5 year old Sissy has made her own adventure game, Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure, with help from her father of course...

Awesome! Looks like she singlehandedly revived the adventure gaming genre

Peder 🚀 · Thu 02/06/2011 01:05:19

Love it!

Quote from: Ascovel on Wed 01/06/2011 23:08:06

You should fear that whatever you try to teach him, he'll choose the exact opposite.

Just hand them the tools!
My parents never pushed me into getting into music or anything, but my dad had all the tools needed in the house to make me interested in it myself and offcourse ended up composing music and loving it. Offcourse I don't do it as a living but I enjoy composing music. So if they just have the tools available, and games to play I'd say they are more likely to end up being interested in making games than if you try forcing them in any way.

Even if you play games with them now while they are young.

Eggie · Thu 02/06/2011 05:53:59

Some old AGS hand linked to this on twitter a while a go, then Ron Gilbert got in on the action a few days later.
It warmed every one of my cockles.

Ponch · Thu 02/06/2011 06:15:18

I too have suddenly found my old cockles warmer than usual. Adorable game.

homelightgames · Fri 03/06/2011 18:26:09

What a great idea! I loved it. I played it with my six year old, and it was perfect.

It inspires creativity, thinking, and the end product is fun. Great idea. Thank you.

straydogstrut · Fri 03/06/2011 20:15:50

That was absolutely brilliant. It's cute and hilarious=D

I know Ryan did all the techie work bringing it together but you get a real sense that the game was 'made by' Cassie.

I love this kind of stuff - I really think that game creation should be accessible to everyone and i'm always interested to see tools that make that easy like Scratch and Kodu. Not that his UGAGS engine is such a tool - I haven't actually found out much about it - but I think he leans in that direction.

It was a nice distraction that has me feeling uncommonly warm and fuzzy inside.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sat 04/06/2011 05:28:23

cute.