Out of Order (video game)

Out of Order
Developer(s) Tim Furnish
Publisher(s) Hungry Software
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux[1]
Release
Genre(s) 2D adventure

Out of Order is a freeware 2D adventure video game for PC. The game was developed by Tim Furnish of Hungry Software and released in 2003. The game's comedic science fiction-adventure narrative focuses on protagonist Hurford Schlitzting, who is woken in the night by a thunderstorm. Hurford finds himself transported to a place called "The Town," set in an alternate future in which aliens have taken over. He navigates the environment in his bathrobe and teddy bear slippers in an attempt to resolve the mystery of why he has been sent to "The Town."[2] Player controls are based on the point and click model of gaming that is commonly used in 2D adventure games.[3][4][5][6]

Originally intended to be a commercially released title, the game's developer decided at the last minute to release the game for free in order to showcase his video game engine called SLUDGE.

Around 2010 the SLUDGE engine was open sourced as LGPLv2.1 on GitHub,[7] which allowed ports to alternative systems like the OpenPandora handheld.[8]

Reception

Out of Order received favorable reviews. Adventure Gamers wrote that the game possessed "very detailed and appealing graphics, an excellent original soundtrack, consistently humorous dialogue, very substantial length, and one of the most amusingly bizarre stories we've seen in a long time."[4][9]

In 2003 the game received Game of the Year awards from Adventure Gamers and The Crow's Nest.[4][2]

References

  1. ↑ Out of Order - Ubuntu Apps Directory
  2. 1 2 LaVigne, Chris (10 March 2004). "Out of Order". PopMatters. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Out of Order [PC]". GRYOnline.pl. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Dickens, Evan (26 February 2004). "Underground Awards feature: Out of Order". Adventure Gamers. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Furnish, Tim. "Out of Order retrospective". Adventure Developers. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Amateur Adeventure Primer". Adventure Gamers. 31 January 2003. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  7. ↑ opensludge on github.com
  8. ↑ Out of order by Ptitseb on pyra-handheld.com (2015)
  9. ↑ Freese, Bob (7 April 2003). "Out of Order review". Just Adventure. Archived from the original on October 12, 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
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