Adventure Construction Set

Time to beat

Main story

15.5 h3 reports

Main + extras

23.5 h3 reports

Completionist

39 h3 reports

Median of the hours reported by players who completed the game.

Synopsis

Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a game creation system written by Stuart Smith that is used to construct tile-based graphical adventure games. ACS was published by Electronic Arts in 1984 for the Commodore 64, then for the Apple II, Amiga, and MS-DOS. Smith previously developed several commercial adventure games of a similar style, such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1981). ACS provides a graphical editor for the construction of maps, placement of creatures and items, and menu-based scripting to control game logic. A constructed game is stored on its own disk which can be copied and shared with friends; games exported from the Amiga version still require ACS to play. A complete game is included: Rivers of Light, based on the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Amiga version has an additional pre-made adventure called "Galactic Agent" by Ken St. Andre. Todd Howard revealed that when Bethesda started making Morrowind, he was excited about making a tool like Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set for the Apple II.

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Details

Type

Game

Genres

adventure video game

Platforms

DOS, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple IIGS

Created by

Stuart Smith

Countries

United States