Top Ten freeware adventure games

[ratracer]

You might like to take a look at this (I did coz my game is at n.3! eheh) - a top ten list of freeware advgames!

http://www.epinions.com/content_3626541188

[scotch]

It's a good list, nice to see it has games from different engines, I really much get round to playing Out of Order someday..

[DragonRose]

Cool! Congrats to Chrille, Fidodido, Lucasfan, Ratracer, Dave Gilbert x2 and Tierra x2!  Only three non-AGS games on the list... what does this tell you about the amazingness of AGS?

[Goldmund]

It's always good to congratulate Chrille, Dragonrose, but this time he wasn't on the list.

[DragonRose]

Oh, plastic vicar. For some odd ball reason I got "PD" mixed up with "PDA." Congradulations therefore go to 2ma2! No congadulations for Chrille at all.

[Alynn]

It's a good list, nice to see it has games from different engines, I really much get round to playing Out of Order someday..

OOO is pretty good... made me want to beat myself to death with a few of the puzzles.... but a good game...

[Tarlash]

Hey, there's no Pleurghburg:dark age on this list!!!

[Privateer Puddin']

All a matter of opinion i'm sure

[Barcik]

As this list lacks any trace of P:DA, I declare it irrelvent, illegtimate and invalid.

* Barcik rages.

[scotch]

P:DA is a good game, but the author of this doesn't claim to have played every single freeware adventure, he may have missed that one.  It's a good top ten even without it.

[Erwin_Br]

what does this tell you about the amazingness of AGS?

It says something about the amazingness of the creators, not the engine.

Engines are merely a tool. Most adventure engines offer more or less the same functionality, although AGS would probably be the easiest one to use. Doesn't change the fact that you can't make a game better using AGS instead of Engine 'X', though

So I applaud the developers for getting on that list! Good job!

--Erwin

[AGA]

Aftershocked! and Out of Order are probably the best non-AGS amateur games I've played. Those and Cubert Badbone. They're definitely deserving of a place in that list.

[The Author of this list]

Hi there.

Just wanted to respond to some of the points mentioned...

I have played pretty much all of the AGS games released in the last 3 years - including P:DA (which was a great game but just missed out on the top ten due to a lot of the puzzles being extremely obscure - it may just be the way my mind works - or doesn't work - but that's why it didn't make it in the top ten).  I also check out the SLUDGE and AGAST sites quite often, but development on most of these games is very slow and a lot are commercial, and I don't have the money to actually buy any games at the moment.  (A condition that has existed for 3 years and more now!!)  However that doesn't mean I haven't missed a single game, and there are probably some brilliant ones that I've not got round to yet that could have made it onto the list otherwise.  I'll probably do another one next year, or whenever enough games have come out that knock the present incumbents from the list.

Cubert Badbone is indeed a cool game (and probably has the best soundtrack of any freeware adventure game ever - at least, if you like jazz), and was the first completed game using the SLUDGE system, but I just found it too easy - I completed the whole thing in a single sitting of less than an hour.  

The quality of these games is a credit to both the excellence of the developer and the development system.  The reason I'm so impressed with AGS is because Chris has devoped a fantastic system, maintained and supported it for years, all for free.  Personally, I think that deserves enormous credit.

Enormous kudos to the entire adventure gaming community,

Dave.

[Gemmalah]

the amout of ags games in this list means...  we rock as a community. if everybody was working alone there would not be half as many games that are good. we might all get stuck on one stupid thing or another!

WOO go AGS

[n3tgraph]

I would congratulate CJ with the engine
after all most games are made with AGS over there  

[Ghost]

"we rock as a community"

that's surely true. i came here when i was fed up with the DIV message board. it became too cluttered and many people there only tried out technical stuff without actually producing games. it was also sad that there were a lot of people on the board who would attack newcomers and be extremely incoherent. there were some very helpful, kind and friendly people there, too, and it took a lot of considering before i went.

but this community is one of the best i ever found on the net. there is an amazing love for adventure games here, newcomers (like me) can ask questions freely without fearing to get a laugh... and my first demo was taken very positive, too.

you all rock as a community, and i'm proud to be part of it.