Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
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Lead artist William Eaken's cover artwork depicts the main characters Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood
Developer(s) LucasArts
Publisher(s) LucasArts
Director(s) Hal Barwood
Producer(s) Shelley Day
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s) William L. Eaken
Writer(s)
  • Hal Barwood
  • Noah Falstein
Composer(s)
Series Indiana Jones
Engine SCUMM
Platform(s)
Release
  • Amiga, DOS, Mac
  • FM Towns
    • JP: August 27, 1993
  • Wii
    • NA: June 9, 2009
    • EU: June 12, 2009
    • AU: June 19, 2009
  • Microsoft Windows, OS X
    • WW: July 8, 2009
  • Linux
    • WW: October 28, 2014
Genre(s) Graphic adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts and released in June 1992 for Amiga, DOS, and Macintosh. Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced "talkie" edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects. The seventh game to use the script language SCUMM, Fate of Atlantis has the player explore environments and interact with objects and characters by using commands constructed with predetermined verbs. It features three unique paths to select, influencing story development, gameplay and puzzles. The game used an updated SCUMM engine and required a 286-based PC, although it still runs as a real-mode DOS application. The CD talkie version required EMS memory enabled to load the voice data.

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The plot is set in the Indiana Jones universe and revolves around Indiana Jones's global search for the legendary sunken city of Atlantis. Sophia Hapgood, an old co-worker of Indiana Jones who gave up her archaeological career to become a psychic, supports him along the journey. The two are pursued by the Nazis who seek to use the power of Atlantis for warfare, and serve as the antagonists. The story was written by Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein, the game's designers, who had rejected the original plan to base it on an unused film script. They came up with the final concept while researching real-world sources for a suitable plot device.

Fate of Atlantis was acclaimed by critics and received several awards for "Best Adventure Game of the Year" and "Game of the Year" after its release by several game publications. It became a million-unit seller and is regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Two concepts for a supposed sequel were conceived, but both projects were eventually canceled due to unforeseen problems during development. They were reworked into two separate Dark Horse Comics series by Lee Marrs and Elaine Lee, respectively.

In June 2009, the game was released as an unlockable extra of the Wii action game Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings , and as a digitally distributed Steam title for Microsoft Windows and OS X on July 8 the same year.

Gameplay

Fate of Atlantis is based on the SCUMM story system by Ron Gilbert, Aric Wilmunder, Brad P. Taylor, and Vince Lee, [9] thus employing similar gameplay to other point-and-click adventures developed by LucasArts in the 1980s and 1990s. [10] The player explores the game's static environments while interacting with sprite-based characters and objects; they may use the pointer to construct and give commands with a number of predetermined verbs such as "Pick up", "Use" and "Talk to". [11] Conversations with non-playable characters unfold in a series of selectable questions and answers. [12]

Early on, the player is given the choice between three different game modes, each with unique cutscenes, puzzles to solve and locations to visit: the Team Path, the Wits Path, and the Fists Path. [13] In the Team Path, protagonist Indiana Jones is joined by his partner Sophia Hapgood who will provide support throughout the game. [13] The Wits Path is centered on complex puzzles, while the Fists Path focuses heavily on action sequences and fist fighting, the latter of which is optional in the other two modes. [13] Atypical for LucasArts titles, it is possible for the player character to die at certain points, though dangerous situations were designed to be easily recognizable. [14] A score system, the Indy Quotient Points, keeps track of the puzzles solved, the obstacles overcome and the important objects found. [14]

Plot

In 1939, on the eve of World War II. [15] At the request of a visitor named Mr. Smith, archaeology professor and adventurer Indiana Jones tries to find a small statue in the archives of his workplace Barnett College. After Indy retrieves the horned figurine, Smith uses a key to open it, [16] revealing a sparkling metal bead inside. Smith pulls out a gun and escapes with the two artifacts, but loses his coat in the process. The identity card inside reveals "Smith" to be Klaus Kerner, a Nazi agent. [17] Also inside the coat is an old magazine containing an article about an expedition on which Jones collaborated with a young woman named Sophia Hapgood, who has since given up archaeology to become a psychic. [18]

Fearing that she might be Kerner's next target, Indy travels to New York City to warn her and to find out more about the mysterious statue. [19] There, he interrupts her lecture on the culture and downfall of Atlantis, [20] and the two return to Sophia's apartment. They discover that Kerner ransacked her office in search of Atlantean artifacts, but Sophia says that she keeps her most valuable item, her necklace, with her. [21] She owns another of the shiny beads, identified as the mystical metal orichalcum, and places it in the medallion's mouth, invoking the spirit of the Atlantean king Nur-Ab-Sal. [22] She explains that a Nazi scientist, Dr. Hans Ubermann, is searching for the power of Atlantis to use it as an energy source for warfare. [23]

Indiana and Sophia in an Algiers souk. Below the scene the game displays the core of the SCUMM system, the verbs and inventory items that the player may construct commands with. Indy foa screenshot.png
Indiana and Sophia in an Algiers souk . Below the scene the game displays the core of the SCUMM system, the verbs and inventory items that the player may construct commands with.

Sophia gets a telepathic message from Nur-Ab-Sal, instructing them to find the Lost Dialogue of Plato, the Hermocrates , a book that will guide them to the city. [24] After gathering information, Indy and Sophia find it in a collection at Barnett College. [25] Correcting Plato's "tenfold error", a mistranslation from Egyptian to Greek, the document pinpoints the location of Atlantis in the Mediterranean, 300 miles from the Kingdom of Greece, instead of 3000 as mentioned in the dialogue Critias . [26] [27] It says that in order to gain access to the Lost City and its colonies, three special engraved stones are required. [28] At this point, the player has to choose between the Team, Wits, or Fists path, which influences the way the stones are acquired. In all three paths, Jones meets an artifact dealer in Monte Carlo, ventures to an archaeological dig in Algiers, explores an Atlantean labyrinth in Knossos on Crete, and Sophia gets captured by the Nazis. Other locations include the remains of a small Atlantean colony on Thera, [29] a hydrogen balloon and a Nazi submarine.

The individual scenarios converge at this point as Indiana makes his way to the underwater entrance of Atlantis near Thera and starts to explore the Lost City. He figures out how to use various Atlantean devices and produce orichalcum beads. With this knowledge he saves Sophia from a prison, and they make their way to the center of Atlantis, where her medallion guides them to the home of Nur-Ab-Sal. The spirit of the Atlantean king takes full possession of Sophia [30] and it is by a trick that Indy rids her of the necklace and destroys it, thus freeing her. Meanwhile, they notice grotesquely deformed bones all over the place. They advance further and eventually reach a large colossus the inhabitants of the city built trying to transform themselves into gods. They had hoped using ten orichalcum beads at a time would enable them to control the water with the powers they gained, keeping the sea level down to prevent an impending catastrophe. [31]

Unknowingly, Indiana starts the machine, upon which Kerner, Ubermann, and Nazi troops invade the place and announce their intention to use the machine to become gods. The machine was responsible for creating the mutated skeletons seen earlier, but the Nazis believe that it will work on them due to their "Aryan" qualities. Kerner insists to step onto the platform first, claiming himself to be most suitable for godhood. After Jones mentions Plato's tenfold error, Kerner decides to use one bead instead of ten. He is turned into a horribly deformed and horned creature, and jumps into the surrounding lava. [31] Indiana is forced to step on the platform next but threatens Ubermann with eternal damnation once he is a god. Fearing his wrath, Ubermann uses the machine on himself, feeding it one hundred beads. He is turned into a green ethereal being, but his form becomes unstable and he flies apart with an agonized scream.

Two alternative bad endings see one of the protagonists undergo the second transformation if Indiana could not convince Ubermann to use the machine instead, or if Sophia was not freed from her prison and Nur-Ab-Sal's influence. In the happy ending, Atlantis succumbs to the eruption of the still active volcano as the duo flees from the city. The final scene depicts Indiana kissing Sophia on top of the escape submarine, to comfort himself for the lack of evidence for their discovery. [32]

Development

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Former film writer and producer Hal Barwood (left) served as the project leader, designed the game and was the principal creator of the storyline and the script. Co-designer Noah Falstein (right) helped write the story and conceived the idea of the three different paths.

At the time a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure was decided, most of the staff of Lucasfilm Games were occupied with other projects such as The Secret of Monkey Island and The Dig . [33] [34] Designer Hal Barwood had created two computer games on his own before, but was put in charge of the project because of his experience as a producer and writer of feature films. [33] [34] The company originally wanted him to create a game based on Indiana Jones and the Monkey King/Garden of Life , a rejected script written by Chris Columbus for the third film [34] that would have seen Indiana looking for Chinese artifacts in Africa. [34] [35] However, after reading the script Barwood decided that the idea was substandard, and requested to create an original story for the game instead. [34] Along with co-worker Noah Falstein, he visited the library of George Lucas' workplace Skywalker Ranch to look for possible plot devices. [34] They eventually decided upon Atlantis when they looked at a diagram in "some cheap coffee-table book on the world's unsolved mysteries", which depicted the city as built in three concentric circles. [34] Falstein and Barwood originally considered the mythical sword Excalibur as the story's plot device, but the idea was scrapped because it would not have easily given Indiana Jones a reason to go anywhere except England. [36]

Writing the story involved extensive research on pseudo-scientific books. [37] Inspiration for the mythology, such as the description of the city and the appearance of the metal orichalcum, was primarily drawn from Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias , and from Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World that revived interest in the myth during the nineteenth century. [33] The magical properties of orichalcum and the Atlantean technology depicted in the game were partly adopted from Russian spiritualist Helena Blavatsky's publications on the force vril. [33] The giant colossus producing gods was based on a power-concentrating device called "firestone", formerly described by American psychic Edgar Cayce. [33]

Once Barwood and Falstein completed the rough outline of the story, Barwood wrote the script, [38] and the team began to conceive the puzzles and to design the environments. [33] The Atlantean artifacts and architecture devised by lead artist William Eaken were made to resemble those of the Minoan civilization, while the game in turn implies that the Minoans were inspired by Atlantis. [39] [40] Barwood intended for the Atlantean art to have an "alien" feel to it, with the machines seemingly operating on as yet unknown physics rather than on magic. [40] The backgrounds were first pencil sketched, given a layer of basic color and then converted and touched up with 256-colors. [41] Mostly they were mouse-drawn with Deluxe Paint, though roughly ten percent were paintings scanned at the end of the development cycle. [39] As a consequence of regular design changes, the images often had to be revised by the artists. [40] Character animations were fully rotoscoped with video footage of Steve Purcell for Indiana's and Collette Michaud for Sophia's motions. [34] The main art team that consisted of Eaken, James Dollar and Avril Harrison was sometimes consulted by Barwood to help out with the more graphical puzzles in the game, such as a broken robot in Atlantis. [39] [40]

The addition of three different paths was suggested by Falstein and added about six more months of development time, mainly because of all the extra dialogue that had to be implemented for the interaction between Indiana and Sophia. [34] Altogether, the game took around two years to finish, starting in early 1990, [34] and lasting up to the floppy disk release in June 1992. [42] The only aspect Barwood was not involved in at all was the production of voices for the enhanced "talkie" edition released on CD-ROM in May 1993, which was instead handled by Tamlynn Barra. [34] [43] The voice-over recordings for the approximately 8000 lines of dialogue took about four weeks, and were done with actors from the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Harrison Ford was not available to record Indiana Jones's voice, so a substitute actor Doug Lee was used. [44] Victor Entertainment published the game for FM Towns in August 1993. The "talkie" version was later included as an extra game mode in the Wii version of the 2009 action game Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings , [45] and distributed via the digital distribution service Steam as a port for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X in July 8 that same year. The versions on the Wii and Steam have improved MIDI versions of the soundtrack, along with both voices and text. [46] [47] Lucasfilm released the game for Linux in a collection of Disney classics, including Sam & Max Hit the Road on GOG platform in October 2014.

The package illustration for Fate of Atlantis was inspired by the Indiana Jones film posters of Drew Struzan. [39] It was drawn by Eaken within three days, following disagreements with the marketing department and an external art director over which concept to use. [34] [39] [40] Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell and Michael Land created the soundtrack, arranging John Williams' main theme "The Raiders March" for a variety of compositions. [9] The DOS version uses sequenced music played back by either an internal speaker, the FM synthesis of an AdLib or Sound Blaster sound card, or the sample-based synthesis of a Roland MT-32 sound module. [48] During development of the game, William Messner-Loebs and Dan Barry wrote a Dark Horse Comics series based on Barwood's and Falstein's story, then titled Indiana Jones and the Keys to Atlantis. [49] In an interview, Eaken mentioned hour-long meetings of the development team trying to come up with a better title than Fate of Atlantis, though the staff members could never think of one and always ended up with names such as "Indiana Jones Does Atlantis". [39] [40] The final title was Barwood's idea, who first had to convince the company's management and the marketing team not to simply call the game "Indy's Next Adventure". [34]

LucasArts developed a port of the enhanced edition for the Sega CD, [50] but the release was eventually canceled because The Secret of Monkey Island failed to be a commercial success on the platform. [51] The arcade-style game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game designed by Attention to Detail was released almost simultaneously with its adventure counterpart, and loosely follows its plot. [52]

Reception

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis received "universal acclaim" from critics. According to Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts , Fate of Atlantis was "a commercial hit". [67] Noah Falstein reported that it was LucasArts' all-time most successful adventure title by 2009, at which point its lifetime sales had surpassed 1 million units. He recalled that the game's player audience was 30% female, a higher figure than most LucasArts titles had achieved before its release. [68]

Reviewers from Game Informer , Computer Game Review , Games Magazine and Game Players Magazine named Fate of Atlantis the "Best Adventure Game of the Year", and it was later labeled a "classic" by IGN . [69] [34] [70] Patricia Hartley and Kirk Lesser of Dragon called it "terrific" and "thought-provoking". They lauded the "Team, Wits, Fists" system for increasing the game's replay value, but believed that the Team option was the best. The reviewers summarized it as a "must-buy". [58] Lim Choon Wee of the New Straits Times praised the game's graphics and arcade-style sequences. About the former, he wrote that the game has great colours and brilliant sprite animation. He echoed Hartley's and Lesser's opinion that "Team" was the best mode of the game. Wee ended his review by calling Fate of Atlantis "a brilliant game", and better than Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge . [71]

Charles Ardai of Computer Gaming World in September 1992 praised its setting for containing the "right combination of gravity, silliness, genuine scholarship and mystical mumbo-jumbo", and called it a "strong enough storyline to hold its own next to any of the Indy films". He highly praised the game's Team, Wits, Fists system. He also enjoyed its graphics and varied locales. Although he cited the pixelated character sprites and lack of voice acting as low points, Ardai summarized Fate of Atlantis as an "exuberant, funny, well-crafted and clever game" that bettered its predecessor, The Last Crusade. [72] QuestBusters also praised the game, stating that it "is not only the best adventure ever done by LucasArts ... but is also probably the nicest graphic adventure ever ... just about perfect in all areas". The reviewer wrote "Atlantis shines in 256 colors" and that "the musicians and sound effects specialists deserve a tip of the hat", stating that the audio "completes the effect of playing a movie". He described the puzzles as quite creative and certainly fair" and liked the multiple solutions. The reviewer concluded that the game was "a must-buy for all adventurers" and "gets my vote ... for 'Best Quest of the Year'", tied with Ultima Underworld , "both of which redefine the state-of-the-art in their respective genres". [73]

The following year, Ardai stated that "unlike many recent CD-ROM upgrades, which have been embarrassing and amateurish", the CD-ROM version "has the stamp of quality all over it", with the added dialogue and sound effects "like taking a silent film and turning it into a talkie ... It's hard to go back to reading text off a monitor after experiencing a game like this". He concluded that "LucasArts has done an impeccable job ... a must-see". [74] In April 1994 the magazine said that "the disk version of Atlantis is fun, but in many ways, it's just another adventure game", but speech made the CD version "a fine approximation of an Indiana Jones film, with you as the main character". [75] Andy Nuttal of Amiga Format wrote that the puzzles are very well thought-out and noted that the game is "littered with elements that are genuinely funny". His sole complaint was about the game's linearity compared to Monkey Island 2, but ultimately called the title one of the best Amiga adventures. [56] In 2008, Retro Gamer magazine praised it as "a masterful piece of storytelling, and a spellbinding adventure". [34]

In 1992 Computer Gaming World named Fate of Atlantis as one of the year's four best adventure games. [3] It was nominated for an award at the 1993 Game Developers Conference. [76] In 1994, PC Gamer US named the CD-ROM version of Fate of Atlantis as the 38th best computer game ever. The editors wrote that the floppy release was "a terrific game", but that the CD-ROM edition improved upon it by set[ting] a new industry standard for voice acting. [4] That same year, PC Gamer UK named it the 13th best computer game of all time. The editors called it "a sumptuous feast for adventure and Indy fans alike". [8] In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis the 93rd-best computer game ever released. [7] In 2011, Adventure Gamers named Fate of Atlantis the 11th-best adventure game ever released. [5]

In 1998, PC Gamer declared it the 41st-best computer game ever released, and the editors called it "a milestone achievement for LucasArts, this genre's greatest exponent, and it remains required playing for adventurers everywhere". [6]

Planned sequels

After the release of the game, a story for a supposed successor in the adventure genre was conceived by Joe Pinney, Hal Barwood, Bill Stoneham, and Aric Wilmunder. [77] Titled Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, it was set after World War II and featured Nazis seeking refuge in Bolivia, trying to resurrect Adolf Hitler with the philosopher's stone. [37] The game was in development for 15 months before it was showcased at the European Computer Trade Show. [37]

When the German coordinators discovered how extensively the game dealt with Neo-Nazism, they informed LucasArts about the difficulty of marketing the game in their country. [78] As Germany was an important overseas market for adventure games, LucasArts feared that the lower revenues would not recoup development costs, and subsequently canceled the game. [78] The plot was later adapted into Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix , a four-part Dark Horse Comics series by Lee Marrs, [77] published monthly from December 1994 to March 1995. [79] [80] In an interview, Barwood commented that the development team should have thought about the story more thoroughly beforehand, calling it insensitive and not regretting the cancellation of the title. [78]

Another follow-up game called Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny was planned, which revolved around the Spear of Longinus. [78] Development was outsourced to a small studio, but eventually stopped as LucasArts did not have experience with the supervision of external teams. [78] Elaine Lee loosely reworked the story into Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny , another four-part comic book series, released from April to July 1995. [81] [82]

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