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Over at Adventure Europe ( www.adventure-eu.com ) we feature a new comic strip based on an upcoming 3rd person comedy adventure game called Ankh. You have to be registered in the Adventure Europe club in order to see the comic, but registration is free and gives you access to other comics (like Adventure Island for example:

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as well as our forums (and also contests, art gallery and videos in the future). We hope you enjoy the new comic. Special thanks to Rebel Games for providing us with the comic.

Check out Adventure Europe's Grand opening at:
www.adventure-eu.com

Enjoy 

P.S.: German sub-site will go online later today

[The Exchange Student]

Magixoft is a company developing adventure games for mobile phones. Those games are sold then online, through Handango and Nokia online stores. Magixoft is currently developing an adventure game called The Exchange Student. The story is written by the editor of The Inventory. We are currently looking for an artist to join our development team.

Graphics Style
The style of graphics we plan to use in the game is hand drawn cartoon graphics. Due to the fact that the game will be played in mobile phones, there are some limitations we have to think about when making the graphics. The screen size will be 208x176 and there will be 4096 colours.

The game's story:
The story is very much inspired by games like Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry Series and the cartoon series Johnny Bravo. Emilio is a 22 y.o. Italian student who has never had a girlfriend in his entire life. His friend Vicenzo, just came back from an exchange programme in Sweden. Vicenzo was really satisfied with the programme, he had lots of fun in Sweden and he met lots of girls. Emilio decides to follow his friend's path. He travels to Sweden to spend a semester there, studying in a city of Sweden called Västerås. Emilio will be constantly hitting on girls all the time and he will be striking out each and every time. During the exchange program he will also become friends with some Spanish guys and another German guy. The Spanish guys make up a 'points' game. In this game whenever one of them kisses or has sex with a girl, he gets a point. In the end of the exchange program they will all count the points to declare the lover of the year.

Applicants
Salary will be given in the form of commission. Those interested please write an email to either Dimitris Manos at d.manos@theinventory.org or to Magixoft directly at quest@magixoft.com . Please make sure to either provide us with a link to your online portfolio or to provide us with examples of your work.

The 23rd issue of the PDF magazine The Inventory is ready for download from www.theinventory.org . The 23rd issue is a special on independent developers. The contents include:

- Preview with the first in-game screenshots of the highly anticipated 'Rise of the Hidden Sun', a 3rd person point and click adventure with high quality hand-drawn graphics
- Preview of a fan-made Star Wars adventure, Shadow of the Empire
- A 'warning' before a news-bomb due to explode in the very near future, probably this week, maybe even tomorrow
- Exclusive screenshots from the unofficial King's Quest IX
- Interview with Herculean Effort, developers of the Apprentice series and The Find
- Reviews of Five Magical Amulets, Two of a Kind and Catacombic

Feel free to post your comments on the new issue.

Does anyone know how I could come in touch with Igor Sinkovec, the creator of Ignac and Ignac 2?

The 22nd issue of The Inventory is available for download from www.theinventory.org . In the latest issue you can find:

- Previews of Nibiru and Still Life
- Interview with Future Games, developers of Black Mirror and Nibiru
- Reviews of CSI: Miami and Crystal Key 2
- Bits and Bytes article

The 21st issue of the monthly PDF magazine for adventure games is available for download from www.theinventory.org. Here are the features of the latest issue:


- The Legend of Crystal Valley, new point and click fantasy adventure revealed for the first time through the pages of The Inventory
- 2 comic strips! One of them based on The Legend of Crystal Valley, the other one based on Tony Tough
- Interview with Frogwares about their upcoming titles Around the World in 80 Days and Sherlock Holmes 3. See the first impressive in-game screenshots of Around the World in 80 Days, the first real time 3D title of Frogwares.
- Review of Clever and Smart
- Review of Dark Side of the moon
- Bits and Bytes new article on RAM

and more. Feel free to post your comments on the latest issue.

The Inventory Adventure Awards 2004 PDF booklet is now available for download from www.theinventory.org . In the 35 pages of the booklet you will read which adventures won one of the following awards:

Best Story
Best Male Character
Best Female Character
Best Dialogues
Best Graphics
Best Backgrounds
Best 3D models
Best Cutscenes
Best Soundtrack
Best Acting
Best Gameplay
Best Interface
Best Developer
Best Publisher
Best Indie Adventure
Best Adventure Game
Most Awaited Upcoming Adventure


Feel free to post comments on The Inventory Awards 2004 booklet by either replying at this thread or sending an email to info@theinventory.org

[Best Story Best Male Character Best Female Character Best Dialogues Best Graphics Best Backgrounds Best 3D models Best Cutscenes Best Soundtrack Best Acting Best Gameplay Best Interface Best Developer Best Publisher Best Indie Adventure Best Adventure Game Most Awaited Upcoming Adventure]

Dear Adventure fans,

This week you can vote for The Inventory Adventure Awards 2004! You can choose the best adventures in 17 different categories. The winner of each category will win our Readers' Choice Award in The Inventory Awards PDF book that we will be releasing by the end of next week. Here are the awards that the nominees will be competing for:


Best Story
Best Male Character
Best Female Character
Best Dialogues
Best Graphics
Best Backgrounds
Best 3D models
Best Cutscenes
Best Soundtrack
Best Acting
Best Gameplay
Best Interface
Best Developer
Best Publisher
Best Indie Adventure
Best Adventure Game
Most Awaited Upcoming Adventure[/i]


Each category has 5 nominees, except for Best Adventure Game, which has 6 and Most Awaited Upcoming Adventure which has 18. The polls will close on Monday the 13th of December, 5 minutes before midnight GMT. Feel free to also post your comments on each award category. We will choose some of the best comments posted and we will add them in The Inventory Awards 2004 PDF book. So choose your favourites for 2004 in the polls at our forum (www.theinventory.org/forum) .

Read and drool

http://www.theinventory.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=357

[- Al Lowe]

On Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 30th of November, the monthly PDF magazine for adventure games The Inventory (www.theinventory.org) will be holding the biggest online event the adventure games genre has ever seen. More than 20 well-known developers within the adventure community will be attending the forum party that will celebrate 2 years of The Inventory, to discuss with their fans.

Here comes the list of developers that will be attending the party:

- Al Lowe (Developer of legendary titles such as the Leisure Suit Larry series and Freddy Pharkas)
- AGDInteractive (Developers of the King's Quest and the Quest for Glory remakes)
- Autumn Moon Entertainment (A team of talented developers that used to work in Lucasarts for great titles such as Curse of Monkey Island and The Dig and are now working on the point and click adventure A Vampyre Story, that won our most awaited adventure award)
- DTP (The biggest European publisher of adventure games)
- Frogwares? (Developers of Journey to the Center of the Earth and the two Sherlock Holmes games. Due to the latest events in Ukraine where they are based, their presence is not absolutely certain but they will do their best to attend)
- GMX Media / Artematica (The publishers and developers of the upcoming adventure Martin Mystere which is based on a popular European TV and comic book series)
- Gnosis Games (The developers of the 3D adventure game Broken Saints, based on the award winning online flash comic)
- Himalaya Studios (Developers of the upcoming western adventure Al Emmo)
- House of Tales (Developers of The Moment of Silence and Mystery of the Druids)
- Josh Mandel (Developer of legendary Sierra titles such as Freddy Pharkas and Space Quest 6)
- Ken & Roberta Williams? (The well-known duo that started the legend known as Sierra will be on vaccation during our party, but they said they will try to log in if possible)
- L'Art (Developers of the upcoming comedy adventure Boyz Dont Cry)
- Legacy Interactive (The producers of Law and Order: Justice is Served and Law & Order: Criminal Intent will be there to talk with their fans)
- Microids (The developers of the exciting 3rd person thriller adventure, Still Life)
- Pendulo Studios (Developers of the award winning point and click adventure Runaway, currently working on its sequel, Runaway 2)
- Phoenix Freeware Online (Developers of the unofficial King's Quest IX, the 3D sequel to the popular fantasy series)
- Prograph (Developers of the comedy adventure Tony Tough, currently working on its prequel)
- Razbor Studios (Developers of the sci-fi point and click adventure Legacy)
- Step Creative Group (Developers from Russia working on a first person 3D adventure game with RPG elements called Star Heritage)
- Tale of Tales (Developers of the 3D fantasy adventure 8 that we interviewed in our latest issue)
- TellTale Games (The team that consists of ex-Lucasarts employees who were behind the now cancelled Sam and Max 2 and who are currently working on a new secret title)
- White Birds Productions (Benoit Sokal and his team have worked on the award winning Syberia series and are currently developing the upcoming point and click adventure Lost Paradise)
- Wicked Studios (Developers of the exciting upcoming fantasy adventure Keepsake that we previewed in the 19th issue)

The party will start on Monday at 18:00 GMT and it will take a pause at 24:00 GMT. It will start again at 18:00 GMT on Tuesday and finish at 24:00 GMT on Tuesday. Each developer will have their own section in the forum. All sections will be open for posting from the very beginning of the party on Monday at 18:00 GMT. To avoid confusion and traffic however we have split the party in timeblocks of 2 hours each. Developers will attend the party throughout the timeblock they booked. This does not mean however that they will not be present during the rest of the time, it just means that if someone wants to be certain that a developer would be present he or she would better visit the developer's forum section during the timeblock that this developer have booked. Here comes the schedule:


Monday 29th of November
18:00 - 20:00: Tale of Tales, White Birds Productions, Legacy Interactive
20:00 - 22:00: Josh Mandel, Step Creative Group, Microids
22:00 - 24:00: Autumn Moon Entertainment, Al Lowe, GMX/Artematica


Tuesday 30th of November
18:00 - 20:00: Pendulo Studios, Gnosis Games, Prograph
20:00 - 22:00: Wicked Studios, Razbor Studios, L'art, AGDI/Himalaya
22:00 - 24:00: House of Tales, DTP, Phoenix Freeware, TellTaleGames

*All times are GMT
**Timeblocks might change before the even starts, check our forums for possible changes in the schedule

Ken & Roberta Williams as well as Frogwares could not guarantee a timeblock for reasons mentioned earlier. The Birthday Party forum sections will remain open on Wednesday as well, for those who will not be able to attend the party during Monday or Tuesday (for one reason or another) and if developers have the time they will answer some questions then also. Then on Thursday the forums will be locked.

To be up to date with the latest news on the party, check out our forums at:
http://www.theinventory.org/forum/


Everyone is welcome to our party. Hope to see you all there!

The Inventory Radio is now live! You can listen to adventure tunes all day long. Head over to the front page of www.theinventory.org and click on Tune In (above the news). What's next? Inventory TV maybe? We'll see More news to come soon on our birthday party, that shapes up to be the biggest online event the adventure community has ever seen.

P.S. If you have a soundtrack of an adventure game in mp3 or ogg format, that you would like to submit to our radio station, don't hesitate to contact us at theinventory@yahoo.com

[- Information on our birthday party that shapes up to be the biggest online event the adventure genre has ever seen - Preview of the new fantasy adventure Keepsake- Preview of Quest for Glory 2 remake- The Moment of Silence Comic Part 2 - Interview with Himalaya Studios, developers of Al Emmo - Interview with Tale of Tales, developers of 8 - Review of Wanted - Review of Aura - Review tribute to The Last Express - Bits and Bytes - Article about Digital Cameras - The Al Lowe Show - jokes from the legendary developer]

Now the 19th issue of the monthly PDF magazine for adventure games, The Inventory, is available for download from www.theinventory.org and www.justadventure.com . In the new issue you will get to read:


- Information on our birthday party that shapes up to be the biggest online event the adventure genre has ever seen
- Preview of the new fantasy adventure Keepsake
- Preview of Quest for Glory 2 remake
- The Moment of Silence Comic Part 2
- Interview with Himalaya Studios, developers of Al Emmo
- Interview with Tale of Tales, developers of 8
- Review of Wanted
- Review of Aura
- Review tribute to The Last Express
- Bits and Bytes - Article about Digital Cameras
- The Al Lowe Show - jokes from the legendary developer


Feel free to post your comments/suggestions/complaints on the new issue.

The 18th issue of the monthly PDF magazine for adventure games, The Inventory, is ready for download. You can download it either at www.theinventory.org or at www.justadventure.com . Some of the features that you can read in the 18th issue are:

- The Moment of Silence Special: First review of the game in English, 4-page Comic based on the game, and interview with the publishers in the UK
- Reviews of Legacy: Dark Shadows, Myst IV, BeTrapped and Broken Sword
- Interview with L'Art, developers of Boyz Don't Cry

We hope that you will enjoy our magazine and that you will join our new forums at www.theinventory.org where you can socialize with other readers of The Inventory. We're looking forward to your feedback.

The 17th issue of The Inventory is available for download. Good news is that The Inventory is still for free. You can grab the new issue at:

http://www.justadventure.com/TheInventory/TheInventory.shtm

In the new issue you will find:

A preview of Law & Order: Justice is Served
A report on Games Convention 2004
An interview with Craig Brannon, producer of Law and Order: Criminal Intent
An interview with one of the biggest European publishers, DTP, talking about their upcoming titles (Tony Tough 2, Nibiru, Moment of Silence, Sherlock Holmes)
Reviews of Sherlock Holmes: Silver Earring, CSI: Dark Motives, Apprentice 2 and Dark Fall: Lights Out
And a new hardware column - Bits and Bytes

Feel free to post comments, complaints, suggestions etc...

Today the German publisher DTP announced these two new titles for release in Germany. Here comes the press release:

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Dear colleagues, 

dtp has just signed Nibiru, the new adventure by the developers of The Black Mirror, and Tony Tough 2. 

GC: dtp press release 08/18/2004 

dtp signs new adventures Nibiru and Tony Tough 2 for German-speaking territories 

Hamburg/Leipzig/Prag, 18.08.2004. The German publisher dtp has just signed two new adventures: Nibiru, the new title by the developers of The Black Mirror, and Tony Tough 2. The contracts have been signed right before the Games Convention in Leipzig, at which dtp will show the new line-up. Both adventures have classic, puzzle-based gameplay and point & click interface. Tony Tough 2 will be a prequel, Nibiru a totally new story, a mixture between Black Mirror and Indiana Jones. Both titles will be out in the German-speaking countries in Q1 of 2005. They will be technically enhanced compared to their prequels and will be published in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with an excellent localisation. 

dtp has the leading role in the adventure-genre in the German-speaking territories. Tony Tough, The Westerner and The Black Mirror are milestones in the genre. On 1st of October 2004 dtp will publish The Moment of Silence, the new breathtaking adventure by the developers of The Mystery of the Druids. In Q2 2005 the long awaited Runaway 2 will be published in the German-speaking territories. 

Greetings from Hamburg 

Christopher Kellner
PR Manager
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More info on all the above titles in the new issue of The Inventory, due to release on the 10th of September. 

In the last issue of The Inventory before our summer break, available from www.justadventure.com you can find:

- The top 10 upcoming adventure games feature (Big surprise for Lucasarts fans inside!!!)
- In-depth interview with the developers of Microids' Still Life
- Preview of Martin Mystere
- The second part of the Black Mirror comic
- Preview of Sam and Max: Case Gilbert and interview with Britton O'Toole of No-Action Jackson
- Review of Dark Fall

We hope that you will enjoy the last issue before our summer break. Feel free to post your comments on the magazine.

[- Black Mirror comic strip]

The 15th issue of The Inventory is available from the front page of www.justadventure.com. In the 15th issue you can read the following:

- Black Mirror comic strip

- Interviews with:
The Martin Mystere developers
Rebecca Clements, developer of Cirque De Zale
DTP, one of the biggest publishers in Europe

- Reviews of:
No-Action Jackson, a DOTT-like AGS adventure
Midnight Nowhere, a creepy 3rd person adventure
Schizm 2, a brain-busting 1st person adventure

- Previews of
Legend of the Lost Lagoon
Great Journey


And much more. If you want to download previous issues you can do so here: http://www.justadventure.com/TheInventory/TheInventory.shtm

Feel free to post comments/questions/suggestions on the issue.

[Interview with Chris Jones, 'father' of the AGS engine Interview with the development team behind King's Quest IX. Preview of Bad Timing Review of the month: Cirque De Zale Talking dead article by Mark Lovegrove Reviews of Syberia 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Case of The Crabs and Sofia's Debt]

The 14th issue of The Inventory is available for download from www.justadventure.com

The features of this issue are:

Interview with Chris Jones, 'father' of the AGS engine

Interview with the development team behind King's Quest IX.

Preview of Bad Timing

Review of the month: Cirque De Zale

Talking dead article by Mark Lovegrove

Reviews of Syberia 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Case of The Crabs and Sofia's Debt

and more in over 40 pages full of adventure games.

[1) What processor do you use?2) What graphics card do you use?3) How much RAM does your computer have?4) What operating system do you use to play games?5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?]

We are developing a 3D point and click adventure game called Sealed Lips and we would like to have some feedback from gamers. Our questions concern the PCs you use to play games. You could be of great help if you answered the following questions.


1) What processor do you use?

2) What graphics card do you use?

3) How much RAM does your computer have?

4) What operating system do you use to play games?

5) Do you think you are going to upgrade your system or buy a new one within the next two years?

6) (If upgrade) What part of your system do you plan to upgrade?


Thank you in advance


Dimitris Manos
Editor of the PDF magazine for adventures The Inventory
Project Leader of Sealed Lips