Herculean Effort Productions
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Herculean Effort Productions (often abbreviated to HEP) is an adventure game
development duo in the USA, founded by brothers Ian and Greg Schlaepfer. Of the two, Ian Schlaepfer is primarily responsible for the graphics and storyline and Greg for music and AGS
scripting. Their games are considered to be of very high quality for amateur efforts
, and their releases Apprentice and Apprentice II: The Knight's Move have won numerous amateur adventure game awards. Herculean Effort draws their inspiration from the classic LucasArts adventure games
. Their name humorously refers to the difficulty of creating adventure games, their motto being "it's not easy being the best".
Their game Apprentice is mentioned as a good example of a game created with Adventure Game Studio
in the book Gaming Hacks published by O'Reilly Media
.
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
development duo in the USA, founded by brothers Ian and Greg Schlaepfer. Of the two, Ian Schlaepfer is primarily responsible for the graphics and storyline and Greg for music and AGS
Adventure Game Studio
Adventure Game Studio is a free software development tool that is primarily used to create graphical adventure games. It is aimed at intermediate-level game designers, and combines an Integrated development environment for setting up most aspects of the game with a scripting language to process...
scripting. Their games are considered to be of very high quality for amateur efforts
Amateur adventure game
An amateur adventure game is a computer game belonging to the adventure genre that has no commercial or similar official backing. The amateur adventure game scene emerged in the mid to late 1990s, when releases of new commercial adventure games became more rare and easy distribution of games and...
, and their releases Apprentice and Apprentice II: The Knight's Move have won numerous amateur adventure game awards. Herculean Effort draws their inspiration from the classic LucasArts adventure games
LucasArts adventure games
From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, LucasArts was well known for their point-and-click graphic adventure games, nearly all of which received high scoring reviews at the time of their release. Their style tended towards the humorous, often irreverent or slapstick humour, with a few exceptions...
. Their name humorously refers to the difficulty of creating adventure games, their motto being "it's not easy being the best".
Their game Apprentice is mentioned as a good example of a game created with Adventure Game Studio
Adventure Game Studio
Adventure Game Studio is a free software development tool that is primarily used to create graphical adventure games. It is aimed at intermediate-level game designers, and combines an Integrated development environment for setting up most aspects of the game with a scripting language to process...
in the book Gaming Hacks published by O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
.