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[[Image:gac cover.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Graphic Adventure Creator cover]]
'''The Graphic Adventure Creator''' (often shortened to ''GAC'') was a game creation system/programming language for adventure games published by [[Incentive Software]].


Published by [[Incentive Software]], the Graphic Adventure Creator was a game creation system/programming language for adventure games.
Its main advance over the already well established ''[[The Quill]]'' was a clever graphics editor, one of very few vector graphics editors for the CPC.


Its main advance over the already well-established [[The Quill]] was a clever graphics editor, one of very few vector graphics editors for the CPC. This enabled 'rooms' to be portrayed using a minimal amount of memory.
This enabled pictures to be drawn using a minimal amount of memory.


In the heyday of the CPC, few major-label commercial games were produced using GAC (probably fewer than with The Quill), but it had a vast following in the homebrew and public domain scenes - despite a comparatively high retail price of £24.95 (UK).
In the heyday of the CPC, few major-label commercial games were produced using ''GAC'' (probably fewer than with ''The Quill''), but it had a vast following in the homebrew and public domain scenes - despite a comparatively high retail price of £24.95 in the UK.


GAC was also notorious for its [[Lenslok]] protection system, which mercifully was removed before the utility appeared on an [[Amstrad Action]] covertape.
''GAC'' was also notorious for its [[Lenslok]] protection system, which mercifully was removed before the utility appeared on a covertape included with the January 1992 issue (#76) of ''[[Amstrad Action]]''.


== Games using The Graphic Adventure Creator ==
''[[Amstrad Action]]'' launched a competition to produce an adventure and have it featured on a later covertape.
* [[The_Smirking_Horror|The Smirking Horror]]
 
* [[Yarkon_Blues|Yarkon Blues]]
The covertape didn't include two standalone adventures which accompanied ''GAC'' in its original package when released.
* [[Yarkon_Blues_II:_Space_Station_Zebra|Yarkon Blues II: Space Station Zebra]]
 
* [[Help_Inc.|Help Inc.]]
== Covers ==
 
<gallery caption="The Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC)">
 
Image:2000px_GAC Back Cover.jpg|Back Cover
Image:2000px_GAC Front Cover.jpg|Front Cover
 
</gallery>
 
== Disc ==
 
<gallery caption="The Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC)">
 
Image:GAC Disc.jpg|The Program
 
</gallery>
 
== Tape ==
 
<gallery caption="The Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC)">
 
Image:GAC Tape side B.jpg|GAC Tape side B
Image:GAC Tape side A.jpg|GAC Tape side A
 
</gallery>
 
== See also ==
 
* [[List of games created using The Graphic Adventure Creator]]


== Manual ==
== Manual ==
* [[Media:Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) Manual.pdf|Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) (Incentive Software) Manual]] {{EN}} {{PDF}}
== Advertisement ==
[[image:AmstradComputerUser14-0186 page 0091.jpg|thumb|none]]
== Links ==
* {{CPCPower|4943}}
* [http://www.genesis8bit.fr/archives/index.php?news_id=924 How to make a game with the Graphic Adventure Creator]
* [https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/51523/2016-1086-05.pdf Interview with Sean Ellis about the development of ''Graphic Adventure Creator'']
* [http://moteprime.org/article.php?id=62 Scanned notes and disassembly of ''Graphic Adventure Creator'' on Sean Ellis' personal web site]
[[Category:Applications]] [[Category:Manual]]

Latest revision as of 00:07, 6 September 2020

The Graphic Adventure Creator (often shortened to GAC) was a game creation system/programming language for adventure games published by Incentive Software.

Its main advance over the already well established The Quill was a clever graphics editor, one of very few vector graphics editors for the CPC.

This enabled pictures to be drawn using a minimal amount of memory.

In the heyday of the CPC, few major-label commercial games were produced using GAC (probably fewer than with The Quill), but it had a vast following in the homebrew and public domain scenes - despite a comparatively high retail price of £24.95 in the UK.

GAC was also notorious for its Lenslok protection system, which mercifully was removed before the utility appeared on a covertape included with the January 1992 issue (#76) of Amstrad Action.

Amstrad Action launched a competition to produce an adventure and have it featured on a later covertape.

The covertape didn't include two standalone adventures which accompanied GAC in its original package when released.

Covers

Disc

Tape

See also

Manual

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