King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

aka: King's Quest 1 VGA

Released

August 7th, 2001 on Windows

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Publishers

Tierra Entertainment

Developers

Tierra Entertainment

Moby Score

7.3

#8,597 of 155K

Critics

82% (7)

Players

(86)

Ranking

#982 on DOS
#2,539 on Windows

Collected By

41 players

Genre: Adventure
Perspective: 3rd-person (Other)
Gameplay: Graphic adventure
Puzzle elements
Setting: Fantasy
Misc: Fangame

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Description

King's Quest: Quest for the Crown is a remake of King's Quest using Chris Jones' Adventure Game Studio engine. Unlike Sierra's own earlier remake of the same game, this version features VGA graphics, an icon-based point-and-click interface, voices (optional) and MP3 music (optional).

In 2009 AGD Interactive released King's Quest I VGA 4.0, which can be considered a remake of their original 2001 remake. It contains the following enhancements:

Newly enhanced game backgrounds and character dialog portraits
A new "no dead-ends" gameplay mode (optional) to ensure that the game can be completed from any point
Full narrator speech and lip-syncing for all characters
Windows Vista support
Native Ogg Theora movies, which means in-game cutscenes and movies will now play in Linux and PC emulations under Macs
Full digital speech and music tracks are now included as part of the download rather than being separate downloads

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Credits (Windows version)

41 People (38 developers, 3 thanks) · View all

Designed by	Roberta Williams
Original Music	Ken Allen
VGA Conversion	Tierra Entertainment
Original Game by	Sierra On-line
Backgrounds	John-Paul Selwood Emily Selwood Johan Botes Britney K. Brimhall (Anonymous Game Creator #1) Christopher T. Warren (Anonymous Game Creator #2)
Animations	Christopher T. Warren (Anonymous Game Creator #2) Britney K. Brimhall (Anonymous Game Creator #1)
Dialog Pictures	Britney K. Brimhall (Anonymous Game Creator #1)
Scripting	Christopher T. Warren (Anonymous Game Creator #2)
AGS Engine	Chris Jones
General Midi Arrangements	Tom Lewandowski
Tierra Theme Music	Rufus the Hat Rack
Lip-Syncing	Christopher T. Warren
Voice Acting	John Bell Holden Jams Christopher T. Warren Hope Kodman Matthew Meaby Ryan Swindoll
Beta Testers	Daniel Stacey Pedro Groppo
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Subject	User	Date
DOS Version	eXo (345)	2013-05-07 12:52:59

Trivia

Availability

This fan-made game can be downloaded for free from here.

Credits

All developers contributing to the project originally chose to remain anonymous, although they have been revealed later.

Development

Royal Quest, the working title for the game, was actually going to be more of a parody of King's Quest. It would feature a sort of "bad-ass" Graham who was more interested in fighting than solving puzzles. The game was cancelled, however, and King's Quest: Quest for the Crown development began. Coincidentally, an AGS game called Royal Quest was later in production using backgrounds and sprites ripped from King's Quest: Quest for the Crown. The maker denies any knowledge of its original incarnation of Royal Quest.