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Hero-U
''Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption'' is an adventure role-playing game by the creators of '' Quest for Glory'', Lori Cole and Corey Cole, developed with a custom Unity engine. It is based on the ''School for Heroes'', the defunct e-mail based web game the Coles had created previously. It was released for Windows, Mac, and Linux on July 10, 2018. Gameplay The player character is Shawn, a rogue who is attending a school for heroes. He interacts and competes with his fellow students during the day, and can travel down into the catacombs at night to go on quests and solve puzzles. The player can learn new skills and explore new areas as the game unfolds. Dialog choices matter, as what is chosen to say will affect the relationship Shawn makes with the people he meets. Combat is turn-based and tactical. If Shawn chooses to sneak around combat situations, the combat is also avoidable. Development In 2012, The Coles financed ''Hero U: Rogue to Redemption'' through a successful Kickstarter cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coles
The Coles is a colloquial term referring to Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole, a husband and wife team (married 1982) who are both video game designers. While they are most well known working together designing the '' Quest for Glory'' series, both are notable separately for designing games and (in the case of programmer Corey Cole) game engines independently of each other. They formed Far Studio, which was the developer of '' Shannara'' and is now used for art and web development. They also formed a studio called Transolar Entertainment, which is the developer of the adventure- RPG hybrid '' Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption''. Corey Cole Corey Stuart Cole (born 27 November 1955 in Santa Monica) is an American game designer, programmer, and writer who co-created various iterations of the SCI engine, co-designed the first four games in the '' Quest for Glory series'' with his wife, and designed and directed ''Castle of Dr. Brain''. Biography Corey Cole is an avid '' Dungeons & Dragons' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quest For Glory
''Quest for Glory'' is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games, which were designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. The series was created in the Sierra Creative Interpreter, a toolset developed at Sierra specifically to assist with adventure game development. The series combines humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a 5-part series in the Sierra stable. The series was originally titled ''Hero's Quest''. However, Sierra failed to trademark the name. The Milton Bradley Company successfully trademarked an electronic version of their unrelated joint Games Workshop board game, '' HeroQuest'', which forced Sierra to change the series' title to ''Quest for Glory''. This decision meant that all future games in the series (as well as newer releases of ''Hero's Quest I'') used the new name. Series Lori Cole pitched ''Quest for Glory'' to Sierra as a "rich, narrative-driven, role-playing experience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Mandel (video Game Designer)
Josh Mandel (born October 9, 1958) is an American video game writer, designer, voice actor, and producer. He worked on computer games such as ''King's Quest V'', '' The Dagger of Amon Ra'', '' Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist'', '' Space Quest 6'', and ''Callahan's Crosstime Saloon''. Sierra Entertainment Josh Mandel joined Sierra Entertainment in 1990. He was the first person to play the voice of King Graham, the hero of the '' King's Quest'' series. He also played Shamir Shamazel in '' King's Quest VI'', Steve Dorian in '' The Dagger of Amon Ra'', and numerous other minor roles. In 2001, Mandel reprised the role of King Graham for the unofficial fan-made remakes ''King's Quest I'', '' King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones'', and '' King's Quest III Redux'' by AGD Interactive and ''King's Quest III'' by Infamous Adventures. Post Sierra From 2012 to 2013, Mandel was employed with Replay Games where he, in cooperation with Sierra veteran Al Lowe, worked as a design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, Kickstarter has received $6.6 billion in pledges from 21 million backers to fund 222,000 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects. People who back Kickstarter projects are offered tangible rewards or experiences in exchange for their pledges. This model traces its roots to subscription model of arts patronage, where artists would go directly to their audiences to fund their work. History Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler. '' The New York Times'' called Kickstarter "the people's NEA". '' Time'' named it one of the "Best Inventions of 2010" and "Best Websites of 2011". Kickstarter r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Video Games
A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or RPG, as well as a computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics. Many role-playing video games have origins in tabletop role-playing games Adams, Rollings 2003, p. 347 and use much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include developed story-telling and narrative elements, player character development, complexity, as well as replay value and immersion. The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed. RPGs have evolved from simple text-based console-window games into visually rich 3D experiences. Characteristics Role-playing video games use much of the same terminolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacOS Games
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and laptop computers it is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows and ahead of ChromeOS. macOS succeeded the classic Mac OS, a Mac operating system with nine releases from 1984 to 1999. During this time, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had left Apple and started another company, NeXT, developing the NeXTSTEP platform that would later be acquired by Apple to form the basis of macOS. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10.0, was released in March 2001, with its first update, 10.1, arriving later that year. All releases from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and after are UNIX 03 certified, with an exception for OS X 10.7 Lion. Apple's other operating systems ( iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, audioOS) are derivatives of macOS. A pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linux Games
Linux gaming refers to playing video games on a Linux operating system. History Linux gaming started largely as an extension of the already present Unix gaming scene, with both systems sharing many similar titles. These games were either mostly original or clones of arcade games and text adventures. A notable example of this are the " BSD Games", a collection of interactive fiction and other text-mode titles. The free software and open source methodologies which spawned the development of the operating system in general also spawned the creation of various early free games. Popular early titles included ''NetHack, Netrek, XBill, XEvil, xbattle, Xconq'' and '' XPilot''. As the operating system itself grew and expanded, the amount of free and open-source games also increased in scale and complexity. 1990–1998 The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when Dave D. Taylor ported the game '' Doom'' to L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowdfunded Video Games
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over was raised worldwide by crowdfunding. Although similar concepts can also be executed through mail-order subscriptions, benefit events, and other methods, the term crowdfunding refers to internet-mediated registries. This modern crowdfunding model is generally based on three types of actors – the project initiator who proposes the idea or project to be funded, individuals or groups who support the idea, and a moderating organization (the "platform") that brings the parties together to launch the idea. Crowdfunding has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit, entrepreneurial ventures such as artistic and creative projects, medical expenses, travel, and community-oriented social entrepreneurship projects. Although crowdfunding has been suggested to be highly li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Games
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games ( text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. '' Colossal Cave Adventure'' is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include '' Zork'', '' King's Quest'', '' Monkey Island'', and '' Myst''. Initial adventure games developed in the 1970s and early 1980s were text-based, using text parsers to translate the player's input into commands. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Video Games
Numerous video games were released in 2018. Best-selling games included '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'', ''Marvel's Spider-Man'', '' Red Dead Redemption 2'', '' Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', '' Far Cry 5'', '' God of War'', '' Monster Hunter: World'', and '' Dragon Ball FighterZ''. Games highly regarded by video game critics released in 2018 included ''Red Dead Redemption 2'', ''God of War'', '' Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', ''Marvel's Spider-Man'', '' Forza Horizon 4'', ''Monster Hunter: World'', '' Dead Cells'', '' Return of the Obra Dinn'', and ''Celeste''. The year's highest-grossing games included '' Fortnite'', '' Honor of Kings/ Arena of Valor'', ''Dungeon Fighter Online'', '' League of Legends'', and '' Pokémon Go''. Among major trends in 2018 included the explosive growth of battle royale games such as Bluehole's '' PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'' and Epic Games' '' Fortnite Battle Royale'', the resurgence of ''Pokémon Go'', ongoing governmental review of loot boxes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the assignment of scores to reviews that do not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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