Adventure Game Studio
(AGS) is a Game Maker created by the British programmer Chris Jones in 1997 for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME systems, and specifically designed for making Point-and-Click Adventure Games.
The engine has since moved to support modern versions of Windows, with 2.3.1 as the final DOS-based version in early 2002, version 2.6.2 as the last version to also contain a DOS engine in late 2004, and version 3.1 in late 2008, the final version to support Windows 98/ME.
In October 2010, Chris Jones made the source code for the engine available as open source under the terms of Artistic License. Various community developers have ever since been maintaining and improving the engine over the years, having implemented features such as cross-platform capabilities, parallax scrolling, and support for more modern screen resolutions.
Many games developed with the engine includes a noticeable blue coffee mug somewhere, as an Obligatory Joke, akin to Chuck the Plant in LucasArts games.
Games created with Adventure Game Studio that have pages on this wiki include:
- 1213
- Abscission
- Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment
- The Adventures of Fatman
- Adventure: The Inside Job
- Al Gurbish in... Nick it & Run!!!
- Ask A Monkeyologist
- The Beekeeper's Picnic
- Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator
- Ben There, Dan That!
- Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard
- The Blackwell Series
- Bubsy The Bobcat In "Rip Van Bubsy" Starring Bubsy
- Cadaver Heart
- Captain Muchly Drinks Bleach
- Carnival
- Carver Island
- The Cat Lady
- Christmas Quest
- Chzo Mythos
- The Art of Theft, a Spin-Off of a completely different genre
- Cirque De Zale
- The Crimson Diamond
- Dada: Stagnation in Blue
- The Dark Rites of Arkham
- Death Wore Endless Feathers
- Donna: Avenger of Blood
- Downfall (2009)
- Dreams in the Witch House (2023)
- Enter the Story
- The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
- Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold
- Frantic Franko: A Bergzwerg Gone Berserk
- Gemini Rue
- A Golden Wake
- La Gran Castanya
- Heroine's Quest
- If on a Winter's Night, Four Travelers
- Indiana Rodent
- It Takes Two to Tangle
- Jimmy Jam
- The Journey Down
- Kathy Rain
- Kings Quest I: Quest for the Crown - AGDI
- Lamplight City
- Larry Lotter
- Larry Vales
- Lone Case
- Lorelai
- LucasManiac !
- Maniac Mansion Mania
- The Marionette
- META (2005)
- Monkey Island: Carnival of the Damned
- Nelly Cootalot
- Nightmare Frames
- A Night At Camp Ravenwood
- Night of the Hermit
- Night of the Meteor
- Noisy Mountain
- Novo Mestro
- Old Skies
- P. D.
- Picaroon: The Lost Years
- Pirate Fry
- Pleurghburg: Dark Ages
- Primordia (2012)
- Prisoner of Monkey Island
- Quest for Infamy
- Quest for Yrolg
- Reactor09
- Reality-On-The-Norm
- Resonance
- Richard Longhurst and the Box that Ate Time
- Rosewater
- Sam & Max: The Case Gilbert
- Sandmen
- Search For Sanity
- Search For The Christmas Present
- A Second Face
- The Secret of Mount Monkey
- Shardlight
- The Shivah
- Snakes Of Avalon
- Space Quest: Incinerations
- Space Quest: Vohaul Strikes Back
- The Story of Joijo
- Strangeland
- A Tale of Two Kingdoms
- Technobabylon
- A Tentacle Hero
- Unavowed
- Vector Vendetta
- Whispers of a Machine