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Adventure Creation Kit

Posted by Withstand the Fury Dragon On February - 21 - 2008 8 Comments   Discuss in the Forum 
Produced by: Chris Hopkins
Website: 80s Gaming
Releases:
* ACK v3.2 (Windows) (20.5 MiB, 110 hits)
* ACK v3.2 (Mac) (23.1 MiB, 81 hits)
* ACK v3.2 (other systems) (18.4 MiB, 87 hits)

This is a comprehensive top-down game development tool that allows for the creation of tiled -type games, similar to through to . It is now fully operable under both and without need for emulation of any kind.

The Kit was completed in 1995, and was intended as Mr. Hopkins’ update to the classic Adventure Construction Kit of the 1980s. In about 2000, the Kit was released as freeware, and Joshua Lawrence has taken it upon himself to maintain a web presence for the Kit. The ‘v3′ update was released in early 2008.

8 Responses

  1. Josh Lawrence says:

    Thanks for adding this! Just an additional note that ACK, unlike many other DOS programs, will run directly in Win XP and Win 98 without the need for DOSBox. However, to hear ACK’s built-in sound and music, DOSBox is needed.

    - Josh

  2. Chris Hopkins says:

    I finally had the good fortune to stumble across Josh’s website, and I’ve been working with Josh to fix some long-standing bugs and add a few new enhancements. v2.2 is now obsolete; there’s a v2.3 available on Josh’s website now, and there’s a 2.4 currently in beta.

  3. Wow, great news! And good timing as well — you’ll just make the last pre-Christmas news posting.

    :) WtFD

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