The International House of Mojo

Adventure Developer is still going strong, and has muchos amateur adventure gaming news. So if you need an adventure game fix, head on over and see what you can find.

Stollesoft have released their latest game for download. The game: "The Adventures of Orvar" is more of an action-adventure-RPG, but they "hope you mixnmojo-ers will find it iteresting anyways" Downlaod it from the Stollesoft homepage. (3.2mb)

UPDATE: Man I suck, you people will hate me for this. Despite previous information (from end of the line) implying otherwise, that post should have been March 2000, and no it didn't happen, so sorry for getting all your hopes up people. SCRAMM isnt coming out in March. Bummer.

News has come to light that SCRAMM's showcase game 'Deception at Gavin's Castle' is to come out in March. Does this mean SCRAMM will be finished in March? sounds promising, but only time will tell. Stay tuned to Adventure Developer (and of course right here) for more news as it develops. Heh, I crack me up sometimes.

i've noticed that alot of people havent been visiting Adventure Developer lately, either that or you guys don't post comments or give us feedback or something! Well remember you can use the same comments login for AD that you have for Mixnmojo! No need for signing up again! soon we will have our message board up and many other exciting things. but right now i wanna alert everybody to the fact that we now have the first (of many coming) tutorials online now!

Not only that but we have news on projects like Book of Spells 2, Unamed Project Joe, Zak Mckracken 2, The AdventurerLand Engine and much much more! Also, be sure to check out our review and previews section as well as 'Eye On Amateur Adventure' By the famed Yahtzee! Dont delay, click on over today!

The Zak McKracken 2 project has made its first good update in a while. Check out the new MP3 in the sounds/music section and the new screenshot of the month.

Sorry we didn't catch this earlier (its on our own site!), but the adventure game creating tool RoBOT has been updated to Alpha 3, which is available along with the source and additional resources at the RoBOT site. Some notable features are fixed save/load, MP3 support, and the ability to play up to 10 simultaneous sound files.

Ok ok, here's some news, i got caught up playing EMI.

Exciting news is that Bill Tiller, a fantastic artist who worked on the Dig and CMI, has Posted a message on the SCRAMM forum asking for an decent programmer to assist him in making a 2d Adventure game. If you think you've got what it takes: go and see if you can help!

No, thats not a typo... you can now buy what looks basically like a real lightsaber!
The website Amazing1.Com is selling lightsabers based on real plasma technology.
The sabers are harmless, but, they are fragile due to there nature (glass tubes) so you can't beat your friends around the head with it.
You can get them in 4 different colours- Purple, Padawan Blue, Sith Red and Jedi Master Green and at varying heights (16,24,36 inches).
I know what I want for Christmas ;-)

GamePen recently posted an artical called The Grumpy Old Man of Gaming. It is basically more about LEC closing down fan games, and more specifically, Legends of LeChuck, by our very own Matt Shaw (Narrative).
The Collum has a reply from the PR Dept. of LEC:

In addition, over the past few months we've become proactive in working with numerous fan sites such as mixnmojo.com and the scummbar.com. We've provided them with exclusive interviews with various game teams and the president of LucasArts, as well as demos of upcoming games (Escape from Monkey Island)....(Snip)....The bottom line is that we truly appreciate and respect our fans but we also have a responsibility to protect our property. We hope our fans will understand and respect our position on this.

Interesting huh? Well the article is very interesting and delves into some topics I know every one of us has discussed over the last few months. Read it, and it's reply, you might learn someting.

Source: The Scumm Bar

Issue 88 of PC Gamer UK features a double page spread feature about the recent events of LucasArt based fangames. Among which is a interview with none other then yours truly, Matt Shaw! You can see scans of the magazine on The Scumm Bar.