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Lori Ann Cole
The Coles is a colloquial term referring to Corey Cole and Lori Ann Cole, a husband and wife team (married 1982) who are both video game designers. While they are most well known working together designing the ''Quest for Glory'' series, both are notable separately for designing games and (in the case of programmer Corey Cole) game engines independently of each other. They formed Far Studio, which was the developer of ''Shannara'' and is now used for art and web development. They also formed a studio called Transolar Entertainment, which is the developer of the adventure- RPG hybrid '' Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption''. Corey Cole Corey Stuart Cole (born 27 November 1955 in Santa Monica) is an American game designer, programmer, and writer who co-created various iterations of the SCI engine, co-designed the first four games in the '' Quest for Glory series'' with his wife, and designed and directed '' Castle of Dr. Brain''. Biography Corey Cole is an avid ''Dungeons & Dragons'' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quest For Glory
''Quest for Glory'' is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games, which were designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. The series was created in the Sierra Creative Interpreter, a toolset developed at Sierra specifically to assist with adventure game development. The series combines humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a 5-part series in the Sierra stable. The series was originally titled ''Hero's Quest''. However, Sierra failed to trademark the name. The Milton Bradley Company successfully trademarked an electronic version of their unrelated joint Games Workshop board game, ''HeroQuest'', which forced Sierra to change the series' title to ''Quest for Glory''. This decision meant that all future games in the series (as well as newer releases of ''Hero's Quest I'') used the new name. Series Lori Cole pitched ''Quest for Glory'' to Sierra as a "rich, narrative-driven, role-playing experien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leading publishers of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' related materials. Its flagship product, ''City State of the Invincible Overlord'', was the first published RPG supplement to feature a fully developed city environment. The supplement was followed closely by numerous ancillary cities, maps, and other materials published by Judges Guild. History Judges Guild was founded on July 4, 1976, utilizing concepts developed by co-founder Bob Bledsaw, in his home ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') campaign. Bledsaw, along with partner Bill Owen, travelled to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to visit the headquarters of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), publishers of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', on July 17, 1976. Bledsaw and Owen had hoped to convince TSR to publish some of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quest For The Crown
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure prominently in the folklore of every nation and ethnic culture. In literature, the object of a quest requires great exertion on the part of the hero, who must overcome many obstacles, typically including much travel. The aspect of travel allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures (an objective of the narrative, not of the character). The object of a quest may also have supernatural properties, often leading the protagonist into other worlds and dimensions. The moral of a quest tale often centers on the changed character of the hero. Quest objects The hero normally aims to obtain something or someone by the quest, and with this object to return home. The object can be something new, that fulfills a lack in their life, or something that was stolen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirates Of Pestulon
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 In Video Gaming
1989 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as ''Phantasy Star II'', '' Super Mario Land'', ''Super Monaco GP'', along with new titles such as '' Big Run'', '' Bonk's Adventure'', ''Final Fight'', ''Golden Axe'', '' Strider'', ''Hard Drivin''' and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. The year also saw the release of the Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16 in North America, and the Game Boy worldwide along with ''Tetris'' and ''Super Mario Land''. The year's highest-grossing arcade games in Japan were Namco's '' Final Lap'' and Sega's ''Tetris'', while the highest-grossing arcade video games in the United States were ''Double Dragon'', '' Super Off Road'' and ''Hard Drivin''' among dedicated arcade cabinets and '' Capcom Bowling'' and ''Ninja Gaiden'' among arcade conversion kits. The year's bestselling home system was the Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom) for the sixth year in a row, while the year's best-selling home video games were '' Super Mario Bros. 3'' in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoyle Casino
''Hoyle Casino'' is a virtual casino video game series, developed and published originally by Sierra Entertainment and since 2005 by Encore, Inc. It is a spin-off of Sierra's ''Hoyle's Official Book of Games'' series. Set in a virtual Las Vegas casino, players create profiles and are given a set amount of virtual money. A player can then visit any part of the virtual casino and wager their virtual money as they could in a real casino. ''Hoyle Casino Empire'' is different from other games in the series as it is a business simulation game. Editions *''Hoyle Casino'' (1996) *''Hoyle Casino'' (2000) *''Hoyle Casino'' (2001) *''Hoyle Casino Empire'' (2002) *''Hoyle Casino 2004'' (2003) *''Hoyle Casino 3D'' (2005) *''Hoyle Casino'' (2007) *''Hoyle Casino 2012'' (2011) *''Hoyle Casino 2013 with Slots'' (2012) *''Hoyle Official Casino Games Collection'' (2016) Gameplay 2000 edition The game offers instant access to the rules for each game, as well as real time tips and strategies as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SWAT 2
''Police Quest: SWAT 2'' (stylized as ''SWAT2'') is a 1998 real-time tactics and police simulation video game released for Microsoft Windows. It is the sixth game in the ''Police Quest'' series. It uses an isometric projection camera view, somewhat similar to the squad-level real-time tactics video game in the mold of '' X-COM'' or ''Jagged Alliance'' games. ''Police Quest: SWAT 2''s gameplay takes place in real-time, with the player issuing orders to individual avatars from a static isometric view of the level. Development Many of ''Police Quest: SWAT 2''s in-game missions were based on real life events, such as the North Hollywood shootout of February 1997, and a small-scale riot at a strip mall that can be seen as a parallel to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the Rodney King beating incident. The game's soundtrack was composed by Jason Hayes and Chance Thomas, with the game's theme song being titled "Just Another Day in L.A.", performed by Utahn singer Randall "Rand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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