Quest fo Glory III EGA Remake

Disco · Tue 01/04/2008 06:27:24

Impressive Owl Games is proud to present its first AGS production, an EGA remake of Sierra-Online's 1992 hit, Quest for Glory III : Wages of War!

Are you one of those hard-line 16-colour freaks who loved every parsing moment of Hero's Quest and Trial by Fire, but stopped cold when you saw the atrocious 256-colours that made up the remainder of the once-great Quest for Glory series? What about that aggravating icon-based interface? If this in any way describes you then you better hold on to your ass! 8) Our goal is to strip away all the glam and glitz from Wages of War and return the series to its old-old school EGA roots.

Alright, now for the images!

The Hero sprite, updated with the new outfit first seen in Wages of War

The Figther, training to be a Simbani Warrior!

I decline to put up progress totals until further notice, since honestly there are still a few aspects of the remake that we have not finalised, such as how the map is going to work, traveling to other villages, fighting, etc. are going to work. Work on the art however is going quite fast, with the bulk of the Tarna and Simbani village backgrounds well underway.

I have already received several emails since I made my first casual offline announcements. Here are a few of the more common ones:

Q: Why an EGA remake of a VGA game?
A:The idea originally came to me a couple years ago while surfing the AGDI boards in anticipation of their VGA remake of Quest for Glory II when I realised that, once that game is released, every Quest for Glory will be either VGA originally or have a remake counterpart. This leaves every game with an EGA version except for games III, IV, and V. Since there are those who do not believe a remake necessary, in some cases even preferring the originals, I saw a market for EGA remakes.

Q: Who is working on the project?
A: Impressive Owl as of this moment is a rather small development team (well, duo would be more accurate

) currently led by me, Disco (sprites and animation), with Grundislav on programming. However, due to his priorities with the Ben Jordan series, Grundislav is essentially my scripting tutor until further notice.

Q: Once QfGIIIEGA is finished, do you have plans to remake IV to EGA?
A: That question is way too early to even guess. The complexity of these games is such that I have already decided only to make the Fighter class available for the first version in order to expedite this remake. Many games are started and never finished because they get way too out of control size-wise, so in order to (hopefully) avoid that possibility I had to sacrifice some things for the initial release. If the remake proves popular, then we will definitely make updated versions including the Wizard and Thief.

Q: Will I be able to import my character from the first two games?
A: See the answer to the above question. Is he a Fighter? Then YES!

As of 31 March we are looking to recruit a web designer for the official website and at least one animator and background artist each to assist me with particularly the longer cutscenes. Please PM Disco to apply for these postitions.

CosmoQueen · Tue 01/04/2008 06:41:15

An EGA remake huh? I like the sound of that!

Frodo · Tue 01/04/2008 06:54:55

Love his green trousers!

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 01/04/2008 07:01:58

Atrocious colors? QFG 3 was a beautiful game! I am curious to see how this turns out, especially with the implementation of the classes.

Fee · Tue 01/04/2008 09:39:22

Sweet...

QFG3 was the worst of the series, 5 came close tho.

Hopefully you can restore this game to an actually playable state

BTW, ill have a go at doing your site, ill even host the bugger

Radiant · Tue 01/04/2008 09:40:42

This is an excellent idea. I know many people who have a video card that doesn't support VGA mode; this will finally allow them to play Quest for Glory III. Thank you!

Klaz · Tue 01/04/2008 16:18:37

Fighter? Wouldn't it be better to allow only the Paladin?

Peder 🚀 · Tue 01/04/2008 16:30:58

Looks good!

This is definatly going in my list of "Games I am looking forward to"!

chapter11studios · Tue 01/04/2008 17:24:25

I'd love to play this!

Disco · Wed 02/04/2008 21:44:34

It is with much regret and intense fear of abuse that I inform you all that this is indeed an April Fools joke. As interesting as an EGA remake of VGA titles from my favourite series would be, there just aren't enough hours in the day. What IS quite funny however is that you guys are all a bunch of suckers

Sorry, but this topic was just too hilarious to watch

CosmoQueen · Wed 02/04/2008 23:14:37

Haha REAL FUNNY *rolls eyes*