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First post, by butterfly

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http://www.indieretronews.com/2015/04/futuram … -game-gets.html

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When we mentioned Arjon van Dam's 'Futurama' adventure game development using AGS, we never knew it was going to be one of our most popular articles on the site. You the readers spread the news far and wide, so it comes with great pleasure to announce not only some new screenshots but a brand new sneak peak in game video! But for those of you who didn't read the previous article, this adventure release will be very similar to games such as Kings Quest and Space Quest but with text speech in a style of Lucasarts.

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Do you think it will be completed?

Reply 1 of 5, by oerk

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No idea! But the art style looks great, even if the character sprites could use some improvement.

Reply 2 of 5, by leileilol

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sadly it's destined to be foxed, even if the series finale was 2 years back.

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long live PCem

Reply 4 of 5, by Kerr Avon

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It would be a huge pity if the author was forced to stop making the game. You'd think there'd be lots of official games based on Futurama, since it's so popular (and brilliant, it's my favourite ever cartoon, just beating out Dangermouse), and the cartoon's flexible and let's-not-bother-about-continuty format would transfer well to many different gaming genres. The only one I've played was on the XBox, a 3D platformer/shooter, that was OK but at best it was average. The only good things about it really were that it let you explore familiar places from the cartoon, that it caught the characters mostly very well, and that it was at times funny!

Basically, for a fan of the show it was an OK game, but for non-fans there were much, much better games to spend your time and money on.

To see it being played, go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIebWUeocU

Reply 5 of 5, by shamino

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It would be awesome if it was actually written to run on old hardware under DOS, but I think that's just a dream.
It will probably require Windows 7 or something. Still, it could be fun.