Infamous Adventures (commonly referred to as IA) is an amateur game development company, founded in 2004 by Shawn Mills (screen name Klytos) and Steven Alexander (screen name Blackthorne), and is dedicated to making games in the classic adventure made famous by the releases of Sierra Entertainment and LucasArts in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Their games are created using Chris Jones' Adventure Game Studio (AGS) engine, and the games have project teams that are comprised of programmers, musicians, and artists from around the globe. Their games are released for free download via their website.
Infamous Adventures games
Released
King's Quest 3
Infamous Adventures released a remake of "" on June 19, 2006 [cite web
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0
title=King's Quest III has been released!
publisher=Infamous Adventures Forums
date=2006-06-19] . In line with the AGD Interactive-created remakes of the original two Kings Quest games, the game features a point-and-click interface, as well as updated, VGA graphics[cite web]
url=http://www.adventuregamers.com/underground/newsitem.php?id=1229
title=Infamous classic starts an old Quest anew
date=2006-06-19
publisher=Adventure Gamers
author=Gunnar Harboe] . As well, a voice pack was released on August 21, 2006, consisting of voices for every character, as well as a narrator. The voice cast includes former Sierra employees Josh Mandel reprising his role from the official games as Graham, and Andy Hoyos (Mordack in King's Quest V) as Mannanan. The game also includes a new ending sequence for players who finish the game with a perfect score.As of January 2007, the game had been downloaded more than 80,000 times[cite web]
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/kq3/index.php?page=downloads
title=Downloads
work=King's Quest III
publisher=Infamous Adventures] .In Production
Quest for Infamy
The current status appears to be that Quest for Infamy is in "suspended production" [cite web
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=faq
title=FAQ
publisher=Infamous Adventures] .The game is inspired by Sierra's Quest for Glory series and introduces a new combat engine which has been created for this game [cite web
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=qfi
title=Quest for Infamy
publisher=Infamous Adventures] .
Currently, Quest for Infamy's status is listed as on hold. IA has stated that, as the game has continued to evolve, its size and scope has become such that it needs much more time to develop and gestate, and that the team itself needs time to hone its skills before tackling such an immense project. [cite web
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php?page=faq
title=FAQ
publisher=Infamous Adventures] .
Project X
On 25 October 2006, IA announced that they are also working on another, secret game [cite web
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=1621.0
title=Oh you tease!
publisher=Infamous Adventures Forums
date=2006-10-25] [cite web
url=http://www.adventuregamers.com/underground/newsitem.php?id=1323
title=Infamous Adventures developing new game
publisher=Adventure Gamers
date=2006-11-15
author=Luke Jensen] . Other than a trailer released on Youtube, which was titled "Project X", there is no information concerning the game that is being recreated (if applicable), or the story of this new game.
Space Quest 2
On 25 January 2007, Infamous Adventures posted a static image of a Space Quest II scene. No confirmation of a SQ2 remake was announced however, allowing speculation to arise whether or not it was simply a homage to the Space Quest series or if they were secretly revealing that they were remaking Space Quest 2. [cite web
url=http://www.infamous-adventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=1621.0
title=Eyes on the Sight!
publisher=Infamous Adventures Forums
date=2007-01-25] On 1 April 2007, Infamous Adventures confirmed the VGA remake of Space Quest II. [cite web
url=http://www.adventuregamers.com/underground/newsitem.php?id=1424
title=Infamous Adventures giving Wilco a facelift!
publisher=Adventure Gamers
author=Luke Jenson
date=2007-04-01]
References
External links
* [http://www.infamous-adventures.com Infamous Adventures' official website]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_BPqsHKKes Trailer for "Project X"]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMQbLQSG88o Clip from G4 featuring Kings Quest game remakes]
* [http://www.myspace.com/infamousadventures IA's Myspace Page]
