Adventure Game Toolkit

<h2 id="description">Description</h2>
<p>It was written in 1987 by David Malmberg, based on Mark J. Welch's 1985 Generic Adventure Game System (GAGS).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> AGT was produced until 1992, after which time it was released as freeware (the final version is AGT 1.7). AGT was originally built for <a href="/facts/DOS/sWwDXNmX">DOS</a> but has also been compiled for <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/facts/Apple_Macintosh/8GhnXTK0">Macintosh</a>, <a href="/facts/Amiga/60B3A9of">Amiga</a>, and others.
</p><p>Numerous games were created using AGT, mostly in the <a href="/facts/Interactive_fiction/1gG7AC6k">interactive fiction genre</a> but also at least one <a href="/facts/Serious_game/llz5f4sE">serious game</a> in the form of an experimental <a href="/facts/Medical_simulation/Y5s4apRh">medical simulation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> From 1989 until 1993, Malmberg ran an annual contest for AGT games, a predecessor to the <a href="/facts/Interactive_Fiction_Competition/I8xLJUlH">Interactive Fiction Competition</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Two games that won the AGT contest, CosmoServe in 1991 and Shades of Gray in 1992, written by IF author, <a href="/facts/Judith_Pintar/YHMcpBAU">Judith Pintar</a>, are canonical in the early history of IF. The Internet Archive maintains an extensive collection of AGT games.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Scorpia_(journalist)/opt41oqr">Scorpia</a> of <i><a href="/facts/Computer_Gaming_World/KKMYmFv7">Computer Gaming World</a></i> called it, "essentially, a sophisticated compiler", lamenting its lack of an in-game editor while praising the meta-language which allows a user to create "remarkably complex and sophisticated games in a fairly simple way".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Interactive_fiction/1gG7AC6k">Interactive fiction</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Inform/wVHUn48A">Inform</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/TADS/HEFxIpgm">TADS</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hugo_programming_language/1gG7AC6k">Hugo</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.markwelch.com/agt.htm">Mark J. Welch's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://inform-fiction.org/manual/html/s46.html">Graham Nelson, A short history of interactive fiction</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dichtung-digital.de/journal/archiv/?postID=326">Nick Montfort and Emily Short, Interactive Fiction Communities From Preservation through Promotion and Beyond</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nickm.com/twisty/">Nick Montfort, Twisty Little Passages</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"AGT". Jimmy Maher: The Digital Antiquarian. Retrieved 2023-06-26. <a href="https://www.filfre.net/2016/08/agt/" target="_blank">https://www.filfre.net/2016/08/agt/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Raenel E. Kinkade, Craig T. Mathews, JoLaine R. Draugalis and Brian L. Erstad, Evaluation of a Computer Simulation in a Therapeutics Case Discussion, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Vol. 59, Summer 1995, p.147 <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.561.1679&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.561.1679&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Jimmy Maher, Let's Tell a Story Together (A History of Interactive Fiction), Chapter 8 <a href="http://maher.filfre.net/if-book/if-book.epub" target="_blank">http://maher.filfre.net/if-book/if-book.epub</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Internet Archive, AGT games <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=agt+games" target="_blank">https://archive.org/search.php?query=agt+games</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Scorpia (Feb 1989), "Writing Your Own: Three Software Adventure Kits Compared", Computer Gaming World, no. 56, pp. 52–53, 56 <a href="/wiki/Computer_Gaming_World" target="_blank">/wiki/Computer_Gaming_World</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Adventure Game Toolkit