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The MacVenture Wheel tuning pack bundle download for macbook pro. games comprise a series of four adventure games introducing a characteristic menu-based point-and-click interface. They were originally developed for the Apple Macintosh by ICOM Simulations:

Déjà Vu (1985)
Uninvited (1986)
Shadowgate (1987)
Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas (1988)

All these games have been released on other platforms including Commodore Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM Personal Computer (PC), Pocket PC and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This article is about the original Macintosh versions which introduced new interface ideas to the adventure game genre and were blueprints for the other versions.

History[edit]

The MacVenture engine was written in 1985 for the first game in the series, Déjà Vu. Making the entire game fit together with system software on two 400 k single-sided floppy disks proved to be quite a challenge and special image compression routines had to be written to accomplish this.^[1]

A handful of sequels such as Beyond Shadowgate and Shadowgate 64 were later made, with only the background story in common with the MacVenture games. The rights to the MacVentures are currently maintained by Zojoi.

The 'MacVenture' name was used in loading screens and about boxes – in the original releases for other platforms it was translated, e.g. 'Atari Venture' or 'PC Venture'. MacVenture is the only of these used for referring to the game series in other contexts.

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Developers[edit]

The MacVenture team had the following contributors to all four titles:

Darin Adler (primary developer)
David Marsh (graphics)
Terry Schulenburg (as 'Schulenberg' in Déjà Vu)

The following people had part in the development of some of the games, as noted:

Mitch Adler (Déjà Vu II)
Fred Allen (Déjà Vu II)
Brian Baker (Déjà Vu II)
Scott Berfield (producer/designer: Uninvited, producer: Déjà Vu, Shadowgate)
Ed Dluzen (Déjà Vu II)
Craig Erickson (Déjà Vu, Uninvited)
Dave Feldman (Uninvited, Shadowgate, Déjà Vu II)
Michael Manning (Déjà Vu II)
Kurt Nelson (Déjà Vu)
Karl Roelofs (graphics: Shadowgate, Déjà Vu II)
Paul Snively (Déjà Vu II)
Julia Ulano (Déjà Vu II)
Mark Waterman (Déjà Vu, Uninvited)
Billy Wolfe (Uninvited)

Features[edit]

The game interface is laid out in a novel 'desktop' style in which objects are taken from the environment and added to the player's possessions by dragging and dropping them into the 'inventory,' and in which there are standard menu commands such as 'Save as…'. Multiple objects can be selected and used at the same time by shift-clicking, and there is even a 'Clean up' command which sorts out the inventory in the same way as in the Finder (unlike the Finder, there is also a 'Mess up' command). Much as with any non-game application, the various game windows can be rearranged according to taste and the font of the text window changed as well. The MacVenture games use the Macintosh's built in widget toolkit for the user interface which adds to the feeling of the game as a regular application.

Unlike Sierra or LucasArts' classic adventure games, MacVentures are played in first-person perspective. The player's current view is displayed in a graphic window accompanied by a symbolic birds-eye view of exits in a side window. The name of the current location is displayed as the title of the graphic window. A characteristic feature is the 'self' window which provides a reference to the player himself for putting on clothes and the like.

The point-and-click approach means that no text commands are used except for occasional speech entered in a dialog box. Events taking place in the graphic window, as well as the result of the 'examine' command (similar to 'look' in other adventure games) are explained in a text window which also acts as a log of recent gameplay.

Content[edit]

The four MacVenture games all take place in settings common to movies. Two are hardboiled detective adventures, one is a haunted house ghost story, and the fourth a fantasyquest. The series has a lot of detail put into the game environment, in the form of a multitude of objects being able to act on each other. This gives a sense of depth to the environment, and -along the freedom to back and forth from room to room or street to street as you please- makes for a very non-linear gameplay.

Possibly to counter this liberty, all MacVenture games have some kind of time limit woven into the story: in Shadowgate the player must collect torches to be able to look around, in Uninvited evil forces gradually take control and create visions at unexpected times. In Déjà Vu the character has been injected with a poison, and has limited time to find the antidote. In Déjà Vu II the character is told to collect money or he will be killed.

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Graphics are shown in a 256×171-pixel window and, although interactive, remain mostly static. Some limited animation is featured on player-initiated actions and when entering a room. In Uninvited, Shadowgate and Déjà Vu II the about box has an animated presentation of the development team in the style of the game, accompanied by music.

The text element in the games is notably literate and plays a role in the character of the games. Object and location descriptions are written in a recognizable style, and descriptions of the player character can be quite disparaging (for example, looking at a flower vase in Uninvited, you are told, 'It looks like a goldfish bowl, but it's serving as a vase. Function before form, perhaps -- just as in your case).'

Sound[edit]

The MacVentures make good but limited use of the original Mac's sound hardware, which allows for 22 kHzmonodigitized sound. Sound effects consist mostly of door creaks and other noises related to actions, but Uninvited also presents some ambient sounds.

Except for the 'Winchester Cathedral' sound in Uninvited, there is no music in the gameplay of the MacVentures. However, the three latter games feature elaborate about boxes with music and have ending scores.

Characteristic features[edit]

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The freedom to pick up (most) objects and drop them at another location, at any chosen position. This could create annoyingly realistic 'where did I put that thing?' situations.
The ability to put things inside hollow objects such as jars, bowls or drawers. Doing this increases the number of objects that can be carried in the inventory.
The 'self' window containing an object referencing the main character. In Déjà Vu and Uninvited, the self is simply an oval with the text SELF, in Shadowgate and Déjà Vu II it is decorated in the theme of the game. Clicking in the background of the inventory window acts as a shortcut for selec