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Adventure Construction Set

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Adventure Construction Set is an abandoned application developed by Stuart Smith and published for DOS, Amiga, Apple II and Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts in 1987. As the name suggests, ACS is a game-building system (we're talking about adventure RPGs) that lets you edit maps, items, creatures, etc. Included with ACS is a complete game called Rivers of Light.

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science fiction, fantasy

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turn based, class-based

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top down

Game modes:

single-player, hotseat

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Retro gamer collector's corner:

Shortly after Adventure Construction Set's release, announcements were included in the packaging for players to submit their adventures for a contest to be judged by Electronic Arts and their playtesters. Approximately 50 games were submitted.

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Status: abandonware
Also published for: Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64
Abandonware DOS views: 13683

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Remakes:

Adventure Creation Kit, a remake

Comments

Giorgos Saridakis 17/06/2023 16:28
Remarkable app, great games constructed for it
Noah Gibbs 04/04/2021 13:13
I played so, SO many hours of this on the Apple IIe. I still miss it occasionally.

Some versions had "Rivers of Light" as an example game, including the IIe. It was pretty cool - Babylonian myth isn't one you see mined for adventure games much.

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