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Hey Blackthorne. Thanks for your interest in lending your voice to the game!

We have already cast the part as Vohaul, though - Jason Vertucio, who does the "WILCO MUST PAY!" in the intro, will be returning for our talkie. You're more than welcome to audition for other characters, though. We've still got around 60 that need to be cast, so there should be plenty to choose from if you still want to help out

See you around!

Thanks - I'm really busy with all the games we're working on at IA - I do the voice acting thing mostly for fun; I just thought if people wanted me to do it, I would let them know I'd be keen.  If someone's already committed to it, that's great!

Good luck; doing a voice pack is really a beast of a job, it took up the most time in production for us with SQII!


Bt

I would be more than happy to voice Vohaul for you, if you so choose!  Just let me know, I'd love to help out.


Bt

Here's a bug: if you try to smell the yellow stripes on the pattern on the floor in the shuttle bay, Roger says "I can't quite make out the smell.", but there's no voice acting to go with it.

Thanks, man.  We got that one!  Should be covered in the coming patch.


Bt

Really awesome; and I'm still looking forward to The Fountain of Youth!  I know what it's like to work on a game for years and years, and I know you are cooking up something special there.

Thanks for the mini-game!

Bt

Bless your kidneys, Blackthorne!  You guys finally got the game done.

So the important question is:  WHAT'S NEXT?

An original, commercial project!


Bt

DECEMBER 30th, 2011 - After more than five years of working on the game, bit by bit in their spare time, the team at INFAMOUS ADVENTURES (www.infamous-adventures.com) has released their remake of the 1987 classic, "SPACE QUEST II: Vohaul's Revenge".  Originally written and programmed by Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe and released by Sierra On-Line, the game features the hapless hero, janitor Roger Wilco in a rollicking adventure that takes him through space! 

Remade in a classic retro "VGA" style, like Sierra's later point and click adventures from the early 1990's, Space Quest II Remake provides hand-drawn backgrounds, hand animated characters, a full voice pack featuring over 4,000 recorded lines and a whole lot of extras and fun.  A labor of love and devotion to the original series, the team at Infamous Adventures is proud to be able to release this to the fans, both young and old.  Visit www.infamous-adventures for more details.

So what are you waiting for?

Click here to download SQ2 !!!



Special Thanks to all the team members involved in putting this together.  So many people came together over the past five years to make this, and they were all amazing.  I had a lot of fun working with them, and making this game.


Bt

Yep, you can lock this one.  Space Quest II has been released!


Thank you to EVERYONE who worked on it, everyone who supported it.... it's been fun working on it!



Bt

Squinky!  You're a welcome blast from the past!  Glad to see you back.  Now make a new AGS game to entertain us all!


Bt

Subtle?

GIVE ME LIMEY LIZARD OR GIVE ME DEATH! 

Well, at least an adventure game-style death.


Bt

No, you're very lucky Voh!  Kidney problems are often undiagnosed, or dismissed as other things because any kind of kidney disease produces lots of symptoms - which are often diagnosed seperately, not as part of an overall nephrotic condition!  You are lucky to have changed doctors - GP's often miss kidney problems.  Mine did.  I'd been feeling awful for years, having weird colds, and giant problems with my mood, attitude and lethargy.... I was diagnosed as depressed, ADD, high blood pressure.... etc.  It wasn't until I went to my doctor with my eyesight gone (I was rendered blind because my blood pressure was so high from failing kidneys that blood vessels in my eyes burst) and a BP of 220/180 that they rushed me to the hospital.  They did an ultrasound on my abdomen and discovered my kidneys were so atrophied, they barely showed up.  I was put on dialysis that night.   The nephrologist estimated that I'd been suffering from kidney disease for years, and it went undiagnosed until the point that it killed my kidneys and almost killed me.

Have your doctor check the protein levels in your urine, and get your creatinine and BUN levels checked with a blood test by your doctor.  It should be routine, but it's not always.


Bt

Just for everyone's info, the guys over at Infamous Adventures released the source for their mini game Space Quest for Glory.  Check it out.

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=4637.0

Just wanted to bump this, if you didn't get a chance to see it or read it.  It's the Source Code for our mini-game, Space Quest For Glory.   It was a little parody of Space Quest and Quest For Glory we made for an April Fools Gag - but it does have a working battle engine, which might come in handy to some budding developers, or even experienced ones who just want to have something easy to use.

Check it out sometime... let me know if you like it.  If you hate it, please send me rotten tomatoes via snail mail.

It's

Blackthorne
1060 W Addison St
Chicago, IL 60613

Thank you!


Bt

I love that I saw a Starchaser: The Legend of Orin reference in this thread!

I feel great - amazing, actually.  One of the ways they measure kidney function is your creatinine cleareance - creatinine is a muscle waste product.  Normal is about 0.6-1.9 (The high end being for people who are very muscular).... mine, while on dialysis, varied from 12 to 17.  And every number up is 100 times worse than the last.... so I was very tired and ill all the time.  Yesterday, they measured mine - 0.9!  Which is incredible for a transplanted organ!

It's amazing how much better I feel.  An organ transplant isn't a "cure", really - but rather a better form of treatment.  And I'll take this treatment over dialysis!

Bt

Hey there!

I know I talked about being on dialysis and needing a kidney transplant in some other threads, so I thought I'd drop this note here.

Last Friday, I got a phone call saying they had a kidney for me!  I went up to the hospital, had some blood drawn - they admitted me and at 3:30 AM, I had a kidney transplant!

The new organ is working well; I'm home already, walking, talking and enjoy a dialysis-free life.  I have to take an immense cocktail of anti-rejection drugs for the rest of my life, but it's better than four hours on a machine every day!

Thanks to all who supported me on this.


Bt

Try looking at http://www.gitorious.org/ags and follow progress there. Since AGS is open source now, some have gotten other platforms to work, such as PSP. So look there and see what progress the source code has had.

Hey, thanks Joseph.  I will give a look over there.  I just think it'd be lots of fun to play AGS games on my iPad.  You know, sitting by the pool, playin' Limey Lizard...... heh.


Bt

Ooh, boy.  Space Quest II - we've been working on that beastie for over five years!  We started out really fast and strong, and got a lot of it done very quickly.  Then life happened - some people got jobs and didn't have the time, some people got cancer, others had to go on dialysis.....haha..... several of us got married.... you know, life happened.  Production slowed to a crawl - little bits here and there.

In the past year, we've continued to crawl to the finish - recording the narrator has taken the longest, because there's so many interactions.  (We kept the taste and smell icons.  They're tons of fun.)   Most of us at IA just want to be DONE with it and get it out the door and let people enjoy it.  I really can't wait to share this game with the community.  A lot of work and talent went into this, and we're just making sure we do it right and release it as bug-free as possible. 

It's coming, and hopefully soon.  We've only got a little more audio editing to do, a few bugs to squash, and we recently re-did and overhauled the mines section of the game. 

Then it's on to finishing "Kingdom of Sorrow", our other Sierra Tribute game.  Sigh.  I wish I had more time (and money!) to work on these games, because I love it.  But, alas, it IS a hobby and other things take up my time.  I promise it'll be released, though.


Bt

I know this is a bit of thread necromancy, but having recently been given an iPad as a gift - I got interested in seeing if it was possible to port AGS games to an iPad format.

As Darth Mandarb said earlier, I wouldn't be so keen on playing them on my iPod/iPhone - but my iPod.... I'd love to be able to play the version of Space Quest II my team, Infamous Adventures, has been working on.

Has anyone done any more with this?  Porting AGS to iPad?  Would anyone be interested in, perhaps, porting our games for iPad use?


Bt

How's progress coming along on that one?

Thanks, BT It's making good progress, but will take quite a bit more time because of the work involved; particularly the huge amount of sprites (~4500 and counting). Plot and music are pretty much done, as is most of the room art.

Also, good luck with your kidney!

Yeah, I can imagine that game has a TON of sprites to do.  But I am really eagerly waiting for it.... I've always been a big fan of the Quest For Glory games - this one looks like a great spiritual successor to it.

Bt

Oh, yeah - definitely Heroine's Quest.  I am very excited for that game.  The graphics not only look great and have that classic feel, It's being made by Crystal Shard, who has a great track record in game production!

How's progress coming along on that one?


Bt

I am more upset about your kidneys than the game.  I hope you bounce back!

Working on it.  I've been back on dialysis for the past four years - and I've been on the transplant list just as long.  I recently got a call - I was a backup for a kidney that came in.  Though it didn't go to me, it means I'm very high on the list.  Could be any day now that I get the call and get a kidney.  Couldn't come soon enough  - It's really starting to wear me down.

Who knows.  Maybe after I have a transplant, I'll get super-charged and start up QFI again!


Bt