Pillars of Garendall
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Pillars of Garendall is a computer role-playing game that was built by Beenox Studios
and Ambrosia Software
, using the Coldstone game engine
.
platform, the Mac OS X
platform and the Windows
platform.
Among other things, the game-making capabilities of the Coldstone game engine software were confirmed by the building of the PoG game.
, which render the PoG game unplayable on recent versions of the Mac OS X
platform, Ambrosia Software does not sell licenses for the full game anymore. The new management of Beenox Studios
is uninterested in fixing these problems with the game engine. Ambrosia Software
has stated that they want to fix the Coldstone software, but that they never would have agreed to distribute the project if they had known they would have to provide updates and bug fixes.
Beenox
Beenox is a video game developer, established in Québec City, Québec. Founded in 2000 by Dominique Brown. Beenox has been awarded with the Quebec's Best Employer 2008 title and is among the Top 50 of the World’s best video game developers published in March 2008 by the Game Developers Research...
and Ambrosia Software
Ambrosia Software
Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Its products are distributed as shareware; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days....
, using the Coldstone game engine
Coldstone game engine
The Coldstone game engine is a game creation suite for the Macintosh developed by Beenox Studios and Ambrosia Software.-Functionality:Although the Coldstone game creation software itself only runs on the Mac OS platform, it is capable of compiling stand-alone games that run on the Mac OS 9...
.
Description
In the Pillars of Garendall game, the capitol city of the kingdom of Garendall, Gidolan Keep, is being attacked by monsters, and the player must train to eventually defeat them. Demos of the game are available for the Mac OSMac OS
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...
platform, the Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
platform and the Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
platform.
Among other things, the game-making capabilities of the Coldstone game engine software were confirmed by the building of the PoG game.
Availability
Due to problems with the Coldstone game engineColdstone game engine
The Coldstone game engine is a game creation suite for the Macintosh developed by Beenox Studios and Ambrosia Software.-Functionality:Although the Coldstone game creation software itself only runs on the Mac OS platform, it is capable of compiling stand-alone games that run on the Mac OS 9...
, which render the PoG game unplayable on recent versions of the Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
platform, Ambrosia Software does not sell licenses for the full game anymore. The new management of Beenox Studios
Beenox
Beenox is a video game developer, established in Québec City, Québec. Founded in 2000 by Dominique Brown. Beenox has been awarded with the Quebec's Best Employer 2008 title and is among the Top 50 of the World’s best video game developers published in March 2008 by the Game Developers Research...
is uninterested in fixing these problems with the game engine. Ambrosia Software
Ambrosia Software
Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Its products are distributed as shareware; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days....
has stated that they want to fix the Coldstone software, but that they never would have agreed to distribute the project if they had known they would have to provide updates and bug fixes.