Glk/Scott

Scott
Engine developer	Alan Cox, dreammaster
Companies that used it	Adventure International
Games that use it	See Games
Date added to ScummVM	2018-12-09
First release containing it	None

About

Scott is short for ScottFree, an implementation by Alan Cox for the Adventure International line of interactive fiction games from the 1970s and '80s by Scott Adams. It has been added to the new Glk text interpreter framework in ScummVM as the first proof of concept sub-engine.

Games

Adventure International games:

• Adventureland (1978)
• Pirate Adventure, a.k.a. Pirate Cove (1979)
• Mission: Impossible, a.k.a. Impossible Mission, a.k.a. Secret Mission (1979)
• Voodoo Castle (1979)
• The Count (1979)
• Strange Odyssey (1979)
• Mystery Fun House (1979)
• Pyramid of Doom (1979)
• Ghost Town (1980)
• Savage Island, Part I and II (1981)
• The Golden Voyage (1981)
• Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (1982)
• Return to Pirate's Isle (1983)
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
• Questprobe: Featuring the Hulk a.k.a Marvel Adventure #1 (1984)
• Questprobe: Featuring Spider-Man (1984)
• Questprobe: Featuring the Human Torch and the Thing (1985)

Mysterious Adventures series by Brian Howarth:

• Mysterious Adventures 1: The Golden Baton (1981)
• Mysterious Adventures 2: The Time Machine (1981)
• Mysterious Adventures 3: Arrow of Death Part 1 (1981)
• Mysterious Adventures 4: Arrow of Death Part 2 (1982)
• Mysterious Adventures 5: Escape from Pulsar 7 (1982)
• Mysterious Adventures 6: Circus (1982)
• Mysterious Adventures 7: Feasibility Experiment (1982)
• Mysterious Adventures 8: The Wizard of Akyrz (1983)
• Mysterious Adventures 9: Perseus and Andromeda (1983)
• Mysterious Adventures 10: Ten Little Indians (1983)
• Mysterious Adventures 11: Waxworks (1983)

Mega-Venture series by Jim Veneskey:

• Mega-Venture I: Romulan Adventure (1984)
• Mega-Venture II: Top Secret Adventure (1984)
• Mega-Venture III: Gamma World (1984)

Miscellaneous games:

• Marooned (1980) by Kim Watt
• Burglar's Adventure (1981) by Bruce Hansen
• James Bond Adventure (1981) by Bruce Hansen
• Miner's Adventure (1981) by Bruce Hansen
• Cloak of Darkness (1999) - by Roger Firth, converted from ADRIFT by Sam Trenholme in 2007.
• Desert Adventure (2007) - by Sam Trenholme
• Undersea Conquest Part I, by Marc Mandel

External links

• Original ScottFree on the IF Archive
• Download page of Scott Adams' website (most of the games are freeware with a voluntary contribution asked)
• Wikipedia article on Alan Cox
• Wikipedia article on Scott Adams