Portable Gaming Revolution

The staff over at Adventure Maker e-mailed us to let us know that Adventure Maker v4.2.0 has been released.

The changes include:

- New PSP engine for better visual experience
- Integrity-check routines for error-free software compilation
- Added support for animations (animated GIF’s)
- Added support for timers to go to other places after a given time
- Added semi-transparent background for the text messages
- Improved installer for loading the produced software on the PSP

The produced software is compatible with any legal firmware 2.x, and does not require any system modification or hacking of any kind! (it is safe HTML-based software that runs through the PSP built-in
Browser)

What you can create for the PSP is:

- First-person point-and-click adventure games
- Interactive magazines
- Myst/Riven-like games
- Educational software
- Quiz games
- Interactive visits
- Tour guides (museums, sites…)
- Interactive presentations and brochures
- Interactive comic books…

…and any other pre-rendered point-and-click software!

The concept is very simple: you import your pictures (photos, drawings, renderings…), you add hotspots to link them to one another, and you are done! You can even create complex puzzles without any scripting: just create some variables, and then make the hotspots or pictures appear or disappear depending on the value of the variables!

You can download Adventure Maker for free from here. Additionally, you can download some free games made using this software here.

If you have a 2.x firmware PSP, check it out and let us know what you think.