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21
Feb

Adventure Creation Kit

   Posted by: Withstand the Fury Dragon   in Engines, Spin-offs

Produced by: Chris Hopkins
Website: 80s Gaming
Releases:
* ACK v3.2 (Windows) (20.5 MiB, 45 hits)
* ACK v3.2 (Mac) (23.1 MiB, 33 hits)
* ACK v3.2 (other systems) (18.4 MiB, 29 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.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm and is filed under Engines, Spin-offs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 comments so far

Josh Lawrence
 1 

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

April 23rd, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Chris Hopkins
 2 

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.

December 17th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
 3 

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

:) WtFD

December 18th, 2007 at 7:30 am

5 Trackbacks/Pings

  1. Ultima: Aiera » Adventure Creation Kit, Project Britannia logic, Lost Sosaria screenshots    Apr 23 2007 / 1pm:

    [...] have added an entry to Aiera for the ACK, and it can be downloaded from either there or Josh’s [...]

  2. Ultima: Aiera » Lazarus German translation coming; U5 for TI calculators nearing completion; Lost Sosaria forums; ACK v2.3 released    Dec 18 2007 / 10am:

    [...] updated version can be downloaded through the project entry here at [...]

  3. Ultima: Aiera » Massive Redemption Update; Lost Sosaria downloads, ACK v3 released    Feb 22 2008 / 11am:

    [...] have updated the project entry with the latest downloads, and have also removed the commands reference (it’s outdated as of [...]

  4. Ultima: Aiera » Blog Archive » What have you been doing, busy little bee?    Sep 03 2009 / 11am:

    [...] Part 2: “Dude, Where’s My Avatar?”. In concert with this update, Hopkins’ Adventure Creation Kit has also been updated to its latest version (which is required to play his spoof). The DOSBox entry [...]

  5. Ultima: Aiera » Blog Archive » Ultima IV Part 2: “Dude, Where’s My Avatar?”    Sep 04 2009 / 1pm:

    [...] a bunch of other stuff.Be thou forewarned: to play this game requires version 3.2 of Hopkins’ Adventure Creation Kit. DOSBox may also be of [...]

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