Adventure Game Studio

Games like Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion ended up defining gaming for an entire generation of players. Adventure Game Studio is an application for creating your own 2D adventure games, otherwise known as point-and-click adventures, with the same look and gameplay used during the 80s and 90s.

AGS has a pretty visual interface as well as its own scripting language, so you can design your game down to the very last detail, including all the rooms, characters, and objects you interact with as you play. Likewise, you can use any image-editing tool to create sprites and backgrounds for the game. Although it may feel a little overwhelming at first, there's a huge community of users to answer questions and give advice, as well as a few tutorials, both official and otherwise.

When you start a project, you can select the controls you want: the SCUMM verb system used in Lucasarts games, or something more like AGS or AGI, which was used by Sierra. You can also use nothing more than the primary and secondary mouse buttons, like in Westwood games. The possibilities are endless. That said, you can always modify your game until it's exactly right.

Adventure Game Studio is a fantastic application for creating your own video games. Although it's not as intuitive as other applications with drag-and-drop capabilities, it's still easy enough to understand. With this application, you can create fantastic adventure games in a relatively short amount of time, no matter your level of experience. Check it out!