Trivia
The Legend of Kyrandia is based on the text adventure Kyrandia: Fantasy World of Legends, a BBS game. It was designed and programmed by Scott Brinker and Richard Skurnick in 1988, and based on multiplayer interactive game concepts by Tim Stryker.
According to Rick Gush,
Mike Legg and
Brett Sperry
played the game online, bought the rights to the game and were sued later on by the person who sold the game to them, but after several years the court case was decided in favor of them.
The game introduced a single-icon cursor for all actions, and Brett Sperry and Louis Castle, thinking that this was their secret weapon, presented a demo of the game to
Ken Williams.
But Ken showed them King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder which was in development then. It had its own new icon-driven interface, so it was a big letdown moment. Ken liked the game though and asked them if they want to sell
Westwood to
Sierra,
but at that moment they preferred their freedom and control.
The Legend of Kyrandia CDROM version came with a free poster based on a painting by Roger Loveless.
A CD version adds speech and support for Windows 3.x (albeit completely identical to the DOS version).
