#SHARDLIGHT DOCTOR SOFTWARE#
#SHARDLIGHT DOCTOR WINDOWS#

It was originally created by Dave Gilbert for an AGS forums game jam, and then updated to include much better art and add features like voice actors, etc. The first official Wadjet Eye game and by far the shortest. RANKING OF WADJET EYE 16 - THE SHIVAH (2006, remastered in 2013) So at this point I do not recommend it.Īdditionally, I recommend playing the Blackwell games in order, from the start, if you are going to play them.

#SHARDLIGHT DOCTOR WINDOWS#

However they are all playable (in Windows at least,) and accessing the winsetup.exe file in the games root directory will allow you to, at worst, set a windowed display mode for the game if you run into issues.Īt the time of writing AGS support in SCUMMVM is very good, but still has some game-breaking issues that would prevent a new player from properly enjoying these titles. Wadjet Eye appear to be actively upgrading and replacing older versions with the current latest when time permits, however many (most) of their older games are old AGS versions that have issues with modern windows/the steam overlay. All of which have their own weird bugs and idiosyncracies.

#SHARDLIGHT DOCTOR SOFTWARE#

This software was originally created for DOS in the late 90s and has gone through many different versions and upgrades. A design tool/engine for the creation of point and click adventure games. It is not included.Īll these games are made with Adventure Game Studio (AGS). But I'm not sure of the specifics, and the revamped version in 2014 did not involve Wadjet Eye at all.

I know Wadjet Eye was involved in the initial release of Downfall by Harvester Games (2009) in some way.However it was still listed as published by Wadjet Eye at the time I started this project. The publishing rights for A Golden Wake have since returned to the developer (Grundislav games).Emerald City Confidential is no longer available in Australia on Steam due to Valve 'adding support for Australian Dollars' a few years back (this is to be read as 'Removed hundreds of games from sale in Australia because there is nobody around to set a price in Australian Dollars.') And apparently I had not already purchased the game prior to this.I did not include any of Dave Gilbert's pre-Wadjet Eye AGS games, nor games where he worked only on the audio side. I aimed to include every game developed or published by Wadjet Eye. However some stand out as better than others, while other games are a tad disappointing and could be better than they are. I would generally recommend any of these games, none are really terrible. Ranked, from last to first, with some brief commentary. In my opinion though their catalogue is one of the best in games, and their games should be discussed in the same way one would discuss the works of Sierra or Lucasarts. Wadjet Eye have a reputation for making 'throwback' games as a result of this. While supposedly dead in the early 2000s, they were also the most common genre of game sold. To me, the 'death' of adventure games has always been somewhat of a fallacy. So, with the release of Strangeland just around the corner at that time, I made the decision that by the end of 2021 I would finish all of the Wadjet Eye published games that I hadn't yet finished, or finished so long ago that I had forgotten much about them (I first finished The Shivah in it's 'Monthly AGS Jam' form 15 years ago.) Something I had started almost a decade ago but never finished.Īs it turned out, this was a fairly modest goal that did not take long.

At the outset of 2021, I made the decision to finally play through all of the Blackwell games.

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