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King's Quest: The Silver Lining Contest Prizes Arrived

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I should have wrote about this a long time ago, but I'm majorly backlogged.

This year, an independent group of volunteer developers under the banner of Phoenix Online Studios finally released their King's Quest fan-made sequel, King's Quest: The Silver Lining. This project has been in development on-and-off for about a decade so it is wonderful to finally see a finished product. Unlike some of the other King's Quest fan projects, this is the first one to use a fairly modern (3D) game engine. I was skeptical at how well this would work, but to my surprise and delight, they made it work very well.


Legal Woes

The project made some news recently because the publisher that owns the rights to King's Quest shutdown The Silver Lining on the eve of their release. …

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