AGD Interactive

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AGD Interactive (AGDI), LLC. is a non-profit company dedicated to remaking Sierra Entertainment's popular classic adventure games from the 1980s and early 1990s.

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[edit] History

Founded in 2001 by Britney K. Brimhall and Christopher T. Warren as Tierra Entertainment, the group is best known for their remakes of the popular King's Quest games.

The AGD Interactive used the Adventure Game Studio to create their games.

In December 10, 2003 [1], they stopped using the name Tierra Entertainment and started referring to themselves as AGD Interactive (AGD stands for Anonymous Game Developer). Subsequently, in their games, the two top designers (the two founders of AGD Interactive, that is) are credited as "Anonymous Game Designer #1" (Britney K. Brimhall) and "Anonymous Game Developer #2" (Christopher T. Warren). Of course, this doesn't imply actual anonymity, because their résumé, complete with all details, could be found in Himalaya Studios' "Team Profiles" page — which they had written themselves. However, before that was written, they truly were anonymous, as their identities were only known by a few people.

They have also formed a commercial company, Himalaya Studios, which will focus on creating original, point-and-click adventure games with high-resolution graphics.

[edit] Released Games

[edit] King's Quest 1 VGA

Their first release was a critically acclaimed point-and-click remake of King's Quest 1: Quest for the Crown, released for download free of charge on August 8, 2001 [2]. This remake is known as King's Quest 1 VGA. In the month of its initial release sales of Sierra's official King's Quest VIII: The Mask of Eternity skyrocketted. Statistics are shown in this article.

The King's Quest remake was being developed simultaneously with a parody of the same game entitled Royal Quest: Retreiving Lost Shit. The game was cancelled, due to the team wanting to retain the family-friendly image presented by Sierra On-Line, the company that created the original King's Quest games.

[edit] King's Quest 2+ VGA

One year later, in December 3, 2002, they followed up with the release of their second free remake, a complete overhaul of King's Quest 2. This remake is known as King's Quest II+: Romancing the Stones. Both games have been greeted by Sierra fans with enthusiasm, and consider these remakes almost equal to Sierra's later King's Quest VI. So popular a dedicated fan even created the first Tierra fansite, Tierra Game Central.

[edit] In Progress Games

[edit] Quest for Glory 2

Their current project is a much-anticipated point-and-click VGA remake of the popular Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire. Started in mid-2001 [3], this remake is known as Quest for Glory 2 VGA, and is currently scheduled for release "when it's done" [4] (no exact estimate is set, that is), after missed 2004 [5] and mid-2005 [6] release dates.


[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.agdinteractive.com/press-03.php
  2. ^ http://www.agdinteractive.com/press-01.php
  3. ^ http://www.agdinteractive.com/news-2003.php
  4. ^ http://www.agdinteractive.com/QFG2.php
  5. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20040704061804/http://www.agdinteractive.com/QFG2.php
  6. ^ http://www.agdiforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10190

[edit] External links

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