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You can download the first trailer of the 3D Egyptian adventure Ankh.... you know where

Head over to Adventure Europe to find some new exclusive wallpapers for King's Quest IX. Some new characters are revealed for the first time ever over there.

You can read an interview with the developer of the Wintermute Engine here. There's also a poll about adventure game engines but it is only available to registered members.

The new issue of the PDF magazine The Inventory is available for download from www.theinventory.org . In the new issue you can find:

- A preview of Fenimore Fillmore's Revenge, accompanied with new screenshots
- Interview with the developers of the 13th Doll
- Review of the German version of Nibiru
- Review of Journey to the Wild Divine, the first adventure that uses biofeedback!
- Review of Riddle of the Sphinx

Hello, just wanted to notify everyone that the adventure game Eye of the Kraken is available for a free download from Adventure Europe. 156 MB total size. You can also see some new Runaway screenshots in our site. Hope you enjoy the game and the new screenshots.

Rumour mill amidst pre-E3 buzz:

http://www.adventure-eu.com/index.php?option=com_contentask=view&id=50&Itemid=63

First in-game screenshots and new info on Fenimore Fillmore 3

http://www.adventure-eu.com/index.php?option=com_contentask=view&id=41&Itemid=63

[BILL TILLER CREATES BACKGROUNDS FOR 'THE EXCHANGE STUDENT']

Press Release â€" 10th of May 2005


BILL TILLER CREATES BACKGROUNDS FOR 'THE EXCHANGE STUDENT'

Magixoft would like to announce that Bill Tiller, known for his excellent work on legendary titles such as The Curse of the Monkey Island and The Dig, will be creating backgrounds for the upcoming comedy adventure for mobile phones, The Exchange Student. The story of the game is written by Dimitris Manos, the editor of the monthly PDF magazine The Inventory and the European website for adventure games, Adventure Europe.

The story of The Exchange Student is about Emilio, 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 program in Sweden. Vicenzo was really satisfied with the program since he met a lot of very attractive ladies. 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 without any luck. During the exchange program he will also become friends with two Spanish guys Pedro and Miguel and a German guy called Mathias. 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. The theme of the game is very much inspired by Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series.

Magixoft is looking for an artist to create characters and animation for the game. Those interested should contact either Dimitris Manos (d.manos@adventure-eu.com) or Magixoft (quest@magixoft.com)



ABOUT BILL TILLER: Bill Tiller has worked on several Lucasarts titles such as The Dig, The Curse of Monkey Island, Rebel Assault and Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine. He also worked on EA's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Right now alongside several other ex-Lucasarts employees, he is working on a new point and click adventure game called A Vampyre Story

ABOUT MAGIXOFT: Magixoft is a Russian-based company creating games for a wide range of mobile phones. They have already released the titles Astro Quest and Magic's Quest 2 and their upcoming titles include The Exchange Student and The Orgastic Four.

ABOUT DIMITRIS MANOS: Dimitris Manos is the editor of the PDF magazine for adventure games The Inventory and is also the editor of the website Adventure Europe.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the site is back and hence the preview is available again as well.

Hello everybody,

I should let you know what is up with Adventure Europe. Our servers are located in the US and our hosting company in Greece. Yesterday some file system on our server got corrupt and the guys in the US said they're fixing it. So we expect to be back online today (hopefully). And when we do you will be able to read more previews of FoY in several languages. (The preview contents will be different as well, as each writer of the localized websites will be writing their own preview).

Hello,

Over at Adventure Europe we have just posted a hands-on preview of Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth. Read the preview here.

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.

For some (unknown to us) reason those who use firefox have to right click within the issues frame and click on 'reload' or 'refresh' or whatever option firefox has there, I can't really remember cause I uninstalled this junk of a browser some time after I installed it. It's slow, full of bugs and I don't plan to use it because some US defense ministry report said so. But for those unfortunate enough to still be using firefox, here is the direct link for the issue:

http://www.theinventory.org/the.inventory.english/TheInventory.Issue.23.zip

If you're not using Firefox but some other browser and you're still having difficulties with seeing the issue, excuse my mini-rant on Firefox, I'm just really tired of this 'get firefox' propaganda. On a different note, thanks Mods and Steve for the good words.Ã,  @ SSH....hmmm don't know how I missed that. Let's all consider it an April's fool joke, shall we?Ã, 

Edit: Oh and Zor I'm not saying that you are being wrong for using Firefox or anyone else who uses it, my rant is against the firefox propaganda-makers. There are loads of other browsers that are much better than firefox, I'd suggest everyone should give them a try.

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 next issue of The Inventory will be a special on indie adventures. We have already a lot of surprises for fans of indie adventures. If you develop an indie adventure and you would like us to cover it please contact us about your game at info@theinventory.org . We can't promise it will be included in the next issue due to space and time limitations but we will check out all of them and we will try to fit in as more as possible.

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.