Heirs of the earth
| Inheriting the Earth: The Great Quest | |||
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| Studio | The Dreamers Guild | ||
| Publisher |
 New World Computing soft gold
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1994 | ||
| platform | CD³² , Commodore Amiga , iOS , Linux , Mac OS , MS-DOS , Windows , Windows Mobile | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Keyboard , mouse | ||
| medium | CD-ROM , HD disk | ||
| language | German English | ||
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Inherit the earth: The big search (orig. Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb ) is a 1994 published point-and-click adventure . It was developed by The Dreamers Guild , the English version was distributed by New World Computing , the German version by Softgold .
action
In the distant future, humans will be extinct and the earth is populated by speaking, anthropomorphic animals, which have reached a level of civilization roughly corresponding to the human high Middle Ages and are organized in tribes. The Fuchs Rif is accused of stealing the "storm ball", a legacy of humanity that can be used to predict the weather. In order to prove his innocence and to free his girlfriend Rhene, who has been held captive for so long, he sets out to search for the bullet with the boar Okk and the elk Eeah, who are given to him as watchdogs on the way. In their search, which leads them through the game world called "Known Lands", they come across traces of people, mostly their buildings, but also other spheres that are in the possession of scattered and fighting tribes and contain different powers. It turns out that the raccoon Chota stole the storm ball in order to rule the Known Lands with its help. The trio succeeds in rendering Chota harmless, whereby the storm ball is lost. Back in the known countries, Rif succeeds in uniting the tribes of the animals by explaining to them that cooperation of all animals makes the power of bullets unnecessary.
Game principle and technology
Inheriting the Earth is a point-and-click adventure game . The whole fable adventure shines in a cartoon-like look. Many of the more than 300 rooms are designed in the usual adventure style. The game is controlled exclusively with the computer mouse . The puzzles are not considered too difficult compared to other adventure games.
Production notes
It was originally intended to be a trilogy, but was then changed to the current version. During the production process, the originally somewhat gloomy design was changed in the direction of a more child-friendly design. The English-language original was developed for DOS and also ported to the Mac . In Germany, the game was released in a synchronized version in December 1994, initially as a DOS version and then ported and published in Germany for the Commodore Amiga . The installation required 15 megabytes of free hard disk space, which was quite large for the time . Commercially, the DOS version did not bring the hoped-for success.
The first paperboard editions are relatively rare today. The game was widely distributed through a new edition in the magazine " Bestseller Games " - Issue 10 from Trend Verlag (300,000 copies) in 1996. After Joe Pearce gave the ScummVM developers an insight into the source code of the game, ScummVM supports the game in the versions for MS-DOS , Linux , Mac OS , Mac OS X and Windows . The Amiga and CD 32 versions are not supported.
Joe Pearce, a co-founder of The Dreamers Guild, published ports of the English version for Linux , Mac OS X and Windows with his new company The Wyrmkeep Entertainment , after he got the rights to the game in 2002 after a long delay. According to Pearce, the new edition was used to finance a planned successor. In January 2013, Wyrmkeep Entertainment started a crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter platform to raise money for the production of the game. After only nine days, the campaign was canceled due to a lack of financial contributions. In July 2014, Wyrmkeep launched another crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that was just as unsuccessful. In March 2015, Joe Pearce opened an account on the crowdfunding platform Patreon and has been raising funds for the production of the successor Inherit the Earth: Sand and Shadows there ever since . According to Pearce, the game is still in development; a last update on the progress was made in May 2019.
reception
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The ASM saw the technology of the game borrowed from LucasArts Adventures and the setting of the game borrowed from Orwell's Animal Farm . The magazine praised the adventure as "original, exciting and (...) funny", but criticized the old-fashioned graphics, the soundtrack that drifted into "rather bleak toothless" in some places and the lack of independence of the game surface.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ AdventureGamers.com: Interviews: Joe Pearce. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Anno Humanum . In: Current software market . October 1994, p. 13.
- ↑ Bestseller games # 10 on kultboy.com
- ↑ Adventure-Treff.de: Erben der Erde 2 - Kickstarter project canceled again. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Kickstarter.com: Inherit the Earth: Sand and Shadows. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
- ↑ InherittheEart2.com: Inherit the Earth: Sand and Shadows. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .