Pillars of Garendall

Pillars of Garendall
Developer(s) Beenox Studios[1]
Publisher(s) Ambrosia Software
Composer(s) Mathieu Lavoie
Platform(s) Mac OS Classic
Windows
Mac OS X v10.0-10.2[2]
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Personal Computer Role-Playing Game
A screenshot of the Pillars of Garendall game
Pillars of Garendall gameplay

Pillars of Garendall (PoG) is a role-playing video game that was built by Beenox Studios and Ambrosia Software, using the Coldstone game engine.[1]

Description

In the Pillars of Garendall game, the capital city of the kingdom of Garendall, Gidolan Keep, is being attacked by monsters, and the player must train to eventually defeat them.[4] Demos of the game are available for the Mac OS platform, the Mac OS X platform and the Windows platform.

Among other things, the game-making capabilities of the Coldstone game engine software were confirmed by the building of the PoG game.[1] Inside Mac Games gave Pillars of Garendall a 7.75 out of 10 rating, noting the game's detail and elaborateness with such things as 2D sprites in a 3D environment even though the game premise was unoriginal.[5]

Availability

Due to problems with the Coldstone game engine, which render the PoG game unplayable on recent versions of the Mac OS X platform, Ambrosia Software does not sell licenses for the full game anymore.[6] The new management of Beenox Studios is uninterested in fixing these problems with the game engine.[6] Ambrosia Software has stated that they want to fix the Coldstone software, but that they never would have agreed to distribute the project if they had known they would have to provide updates and bug fixes.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cook, Brad. "Like Manna: Games from Ambrosia Software on Mac OS X". Apple Inc (Retrieved from the Internet Archive). Archived from the original on 2008-03-24. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
  2. ↑ "Will Pillars of Garendall run under OS X? | Ambrosia Software, Inc.". Ambrosia Software. 2005-09-20. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  3. ↑ "When was Pillars of Garendall first released? | Ambrosia Software, Inc.". Ambrosia Software. 2005-09-20. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  4. ↑ Welch, Andrew (2001-07-06). "[ANN] -- Pillars of Garendall Preambles". Ambrosia Software. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  5. ↑ Barylick, Chris (2001-11-15). "Pillars of Garendall". Inside Mac Games. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dunham, David (2005-08-01). "Black Screen Problems with PoG and Coldstone games..., Is it because of OSX???". Ambrosia Software. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  7. ↑ Dunham, David (2005-06-16). "PoG, ...". Ambrosia Software. Retrieved 2009-02-15.

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