This is how it all started with animation PC first person adventure gaming for me
Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Aladdin & The Lion King
(got me hooked on adventuring)
1995
before that it was text based games HHGTTG etc, 3D monster maze on ZX 81,
Snapper, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Knight Lore etc on the BBC micro, mid 1980s
Pacmania on the Archi in the late 1980s
Zool, Fervour, lemmings, Pushover and many others.... in the early-mid 1990s
late 1990s+: MYST, Riven, and sequels: Exile, Uru, Revelation, End of Ages
Indiana Jones & the infernal machine and other Lucas arts adventures
including the fabulous Grim Fandango,
Discworld
2000s+ Aura, Schizm, Obsidian, The dig, Simon the Sorcerer
Starship Titanic, Little big adventure, Zork,
Feeble Files, Blade Runner,
Kings Quest (?), Broken Sword (?), 7th Guest
The Longest journey, Runaway 2 Dream of the turtle
Barrow Hill (2006)
and many many more
2010+ apps gaming
Steam gaming: Portal, Fez, Machinarium, Botanicula,
Little inferno, Unmechanical..... Broken Age
The Journey Down
2015: eagerly awaiting OBDUCTION...... (delayed 'til 2016)
The Witness, a stunning puzzle game inspired by Myst/Riven.
2016
** SPOILER ALERT BELOW**
Obduction released 24th August 2016 :)
Welcome to Hunrath
More on the Obduction page from the main index page
....
But here are some of my early screen grabs from Minecraft
Favourite thing I've created was a floating island.
Sun sets over a hamlet we discovered and built a railway to
my adventure buddy
exploring new places
learning new skills, harvesting fruit
learning to build sandcastles in the desert
finding new villages and harvesting the crops
Minecraft has recently won an award
Upgraded to the new version, now includes snow
(boundary rain into snow at our 'Alps')
snowy sunset
Our first chick, they used to hatch at full size
our melon and wheat farm yielding excellent crops
harvesting mighty oaks to make tools, chests, structures and fences etc
Large multi branched oaks are fairly rare but worth travelling the
distance to find them as they yield about 32 wood blocks compared
to pine, birch or swamp trees (although abundant in most areas only yield about 6+).
found a cluster of pumkins ready to collect and turn into 'jack o lanterns'
the darker side to the game, mining out an abandoned spider mine,
other dangerous places include dungeons full of zombies
which can be high up in the mountains
however the green spiky cactus in the desert zones have proved more lethal
than the monsters!
other dangers: mining for gold near lava
lightning strikes our 'Grande Arch' during a snowstorm
Smelting gold and iron ore
made some bookcases and books and crafted an enchanting spell table
We are now all using other "skins" instead of Steve the default character.
trying a love spell on a pig using wheat (weird I know)
Foop joins us and helps us to create a piglet by using a "love spell"
the 2 piggies need to be near each other, hence the help.
a sheep accidentally got into our pig enclosure :D
...to follow soon, a piccie of G's 3D glass maze !
Now that was a dizzy thing to solve
we've since upgraded a few more times...
in my own world.... I've created Pacman and ghost sculptures :)
had fun dying the sheep to get all the colours :)
Jan 2012
Not logged in for a year or so and the game crashed leaving a weird error in our city world.
My pagoda lost one side while other buildings were completely destroyed.
Sadly a gift of puzzling adventures underground by Grozzie was destroyed including a
cool vertical maze and firework display :(
My pumpkin house and floating islands are unharmed.
Not sure why it overwrote our original world.
31st October 2015
checking my Minon farm is ok after crash
Windmill and Taz 'scarecrow' seem to be alright too
Taz at night (made 2014)
Giant Snowman survived
.... update Groz has located the upright underground maze, it survived which is more than
his other puzzles "sand-diggy" (completely rewritten as a spider mine!)
and "splashy" half disappeared.
The firework display has been recrafted.
Floating island out of thin air
Light house
Crafting a ship
