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'''Sierra''' is a video game company founded by Ken and Roberta Williams.
'''Sierra''' is a video game company founded by Ken and Roberta Williams.


The company built it's reputation as a company for excellent graphic adventures beginning in the early 1980s, and continued until it was purchased by Vivendi Universal in the late 1990's. Sierra now only exists as a label - as the entire Sierra staff was layed off and the Sierra building was closed. It is doubtful that Vivendi Universal will produce any more adventure games.
The company built it's reputation as a company for excellent graphic adventures beginning in the early 1980s, and continued until it was purchased by Vivendi Universal (now known as Vivendi SA) in the late 1990's. Sierra now only exists as a label - as the entire Sierra staff was layed off and the Sierra building was closed. It is doubtful that Vivendi will produce any more adventure games.


Sierra produced many adventures like the [[King's Quest series]] (up to [[King's Quest IV]]) with the [[AGI]] (Adventure Game Interpreter) engine.
The adventure games created with Sierra's [[AGI|Adventure Game Interpreter]] (and it's predecessors) are implemented in ScummVM using the code base from the Sarien and TrollVM projects, with permission obtained from the original authors of those projects.


== PreAGI ==
There were several games that used some parts of the AGI engine, before it was mature enough (see [http://trollvm.sourceforge.net/ TrollVM]):
* [[Dragon's Keep]] (1982)
* [[The Gelfling Adventure]] (1983)
* [[Troll's Tale]] (1983)
* [[Mickey's Space Adventure]] (1984)
* [[Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood]] (1984)
== AGI ==
* [[King's Quest]] (1984)
* [[King's Quest]] (1984)
* [[King's Quest II]] (1985)
* [[King's Quest II]] (1985)

Revision as of 22:51, 2 December 2007

Sierra is a video game company founded by Ken and Roberta Williams.

The company built it's reputation as a company for excellent graphic adventures beginning in the early 1980s, and continued until it was purchased by Vivendi Universal (now known as Vivendi SA) in the late 1990's. Sierra now only exists as a label - as the entire Sierra staff was layed off and the Sierra building was closed. It is doubtful that Vivendi will produce any more adventure games.

The adventure games created with Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter (and it's predecessors) are implemented in ScummVM using the code base from the Sarien and TrollVM projects, with permission obtained from the original authors of those projects.

PreAGI

There were several games that used some parts of the AGI engine, before it was mature enough (see TrollVM):

AGI

Starting in 1988, adventure game development switched to the more versatile SCI (Sierra's Creative Interpreter) engine. ScummVM does not support these games.

A version history of Sierra's games can be found under Sierra Game Versions

External links

Wikipedia article on Sierra