For the depth parameter, the scripts either hand in 1, 6 or 7 (driven by a couple of conditions - not sure on specifics but looks to be based on the current board state, possibly how many 'resets' the player has done, and also if you've visited the library book?). From what you said, this means the...

Ah, I think I can see that now. Thanks. I had instead got the notion that it was a recursive call of some sort, using the modulo of the turn number combined with the current depth to select where in the array it jumped to for the next turn a bit like an Enigma cipher, hence the pseudo-random aspect....

Why is the depth limit 20? That sounds awfully high; IIRC a depth of 3 is quite challenging enough for the average human, and the lookup table depths[] doesn't exceed it. It looks from the following code snippet as if the actual depth is supposed to vary between 1 and 3 for each move, jumping around...

The only thing which is scripted is the difficulty level which I assume, is either calculated or used as a setting somewhere deep in the scripts. Well, that's exactly it - feverishly wracking my brains some more to try to remember the details of what I read in that article 2-3 months ago*, I think ...

Can anyone please tell me if the microscope puzzle difficulty in the 7th Guest is currently capped in any way, or is the code a direct reproduction of how the scripting functioned in the original release? I can't find the link now (I'm sorry, I swear I bookmarked it, but now I just can't find it eit...

This has likely been answered elsewhere, but I can't seem to find it: in Indy FoA, there seem two major gameplay branch points: the three "paths" you can freely choose when Sophia reads your fortune after finding the Lost Dialogue of Plato; and the particular location the Dialogue itself c...

Can this be applied to preprocess low-res FMV cutscenes? Maybe even ones with line-skipping like the Z-vision games?

I'm normally loath to threadbump, but it has been nearly three years. Any chance anyone could take a look at this and see if it's feasible? Fullscreen Zork would simply be glorious. I'd do it myself if I were only remotely skilled enough.

Regarding image quality, it looks very much as if Cyan used some kind of diamond-shaped dithering effect on the rendered still shots in Riven, which will probably have looked a lot better on contemporary CRT monitors than it does on modern flatscreens. If we can find out what filter they used, un-di...

I can't boil all my favourites down into a top ten best, there are too many, but I can just about manage a top ten "classics you simply must try." In no particular order: Riven (for which Myst is a prerequisite, but not quite as good) Broken Sword 1 (the original release, not the recently ...

SPOILERS: If the title of this post is baffling to you, then stop reading now! Can anyone tell me the cultural significance of Mike's Pants, as referenced in the easter egg in Grand Inquisitor? A web search turns up this cryptic blog https://mikespants.wordpress.com/, which clearly features said pan...

It's the Q key, presumably short for "quit." If I remember correctly this is also the only way to zoom out from using the mounted binoculars. I can't remember if this was even in the manual, but I do remember this gave me problems playing the originals on DOS as a kid, because SCUMM games ...

Second one sounds like my kind of game, but I can't think which game it could be. Nightlong:Union City Conspiracy springs to mind, but the protagonist in that was bald. Ooh, or very possibly the Fifth Element game?

I still think they look like calacas, I was just a bit alarmed at the idea of getting rid of the distinctive boxy shape of the characters, which I'm still fairly sure was intentional - other 3D games from 1998 already had significantly better 3D character models. I think I probably overreacted, thou...

It's not like anyone is going to complain that Manny's sleeve isn't a rectangle anymore I guess I'm that guy... :P Although I should clarify, I specifically meant Calaca marionettes - crude, blocky and squarish, with a boxy, hand-made carnival-float / papier mache toy sort of look. At least, that w...