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An art and fashion publication that has come out in limited, numbered editions 3 times a year since Spring of 1991. Each issue has a specific format and theme around which prominent artists, designers, photographers, and others guest edit the publication. The New Yorker called it a "gallery in print" and W called it "the couture version of a magazine." Visionaire also has a monthly, wide-circulation magazine called V, edited by Steven Gan and Christopher Bollen, the focus of which is art, culture, and fashion. (http://www.visionaireworld.com/)
Other definition: "Visionaire - the adventure-creation-system" is a software package to create own graphical adventure games, similar in style to classic games like Monkey-Island. Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ...
The program is in first place for fans of the genre who want to create their own games but don't have much experience with a programming language. Those games are also called fan-adventures. A genre is a division of a particular form of art according to criteria particular to that form. ...
A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ...
Visionaire is a universal engine and should allow for many different kinds of adventures to be created. This applies particularly for the interface and the design of the story and events in the game.
There is no full scripting programming language but a fixed catalog of combinable "actions" thereby offering flexibility without demanding programming skills from the user. Scripting programming languages (commonly called scripting languages or script languages) are computer programming languages designed for scripting the operation of a computer. ...
Other engines are heavily based on scripts or do, like AGS, offer an integrated developing environment+script language. In this regard AGS offers more possibilites than Visionaire through customized (but potentially very complex) scripts.
Visionaire characteristics
- Work in a WYSIWYG-developing environment
- Supports important graphic APIs like OpenGL and DirectX
- Support in German and English and continuos development of enhancements to the programm package and engine
- 3 license-models for freeware-games, advertising-games and big commercial projects
WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzy-wig or wuzzy-wig) is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ...
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 3D computer graphics (and 2D computer graphics as well). ...
DirectX is a collection of APIs for easily handling tasks related to game programming on Microsoft Windows. ...
Operating systems Native support for Linux is planned and prepared through support of OpenGL. Microsoft Corporation NASDAQ: MSFT is the worlds largest software company, with global annual sales in the tens of billions of US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries. ...
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ...
Tux is the official Linux mascot. ...
Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grapes or grape juice. ...
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 3D computer graphics (and 2D computer graphics as well). ...
Projects in progress (selection) - Taurus - The Potion of Time [1]
- The Adventures of Sherman Toothrot [2]
- Zak McKracken2 - Between Time&Space [3]
- Day of the Tentacle 2 [4]
- Oops!... An UFO goes astray [5]
Similar programs Many programming teams offer tools for fast and easy creation of graphical adventure games. With most of them you can create a game similar in style to a specific example like one of the classical Lucasarts or Sierra-games. Some of them are universal engines or support a script language allowing for games with different interfaces and special effects. Source: AGS Homepage The AGS Logo and Mascot, the Blue Cup Adventure Game Studio is a freeware tool that can be used to create both free and commercial graphical adventure games. ...
Freeware is computer software which is: Made available free of charge. ...
AGAST (The Adventure Game Authoring System) is a product that allows you to create your own adventure games in the spirit of The Secret of Monkey Island from Lucasfilm Games, or Space Quest and Kings Quest from Sierra. ...
Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed in advance and without payment, as is common for proprietary software. ...
External links - Visionaire-Homepage
- AGS Adventure Game Studio
- SCI Studio
- AGAST
- MAD project
- AGI Studio
- SLUDGE
- Adventure Maker
- 3D Adventure Studio
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