The options were simplified and streamlined for the better in the classic era of adventure games. The system in ' Maniac Mansion' had a lot more verbs than later games. The system worked by clicking on one of the verb options available (which varies from game to game) and then clicking on the object which the player would like to interact with (e.g.
SCUMM allowed the game to be played almost entirely by use of the mouse as opposed to the keyboard. This had a number of advantages, including efficiency, ease of play, and the fact that in most text-based games, players were not told what verbs would actually be valid to use. SCUMM revolutionized the adventure game genre by having the command verbs on screen.
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It was also used in a number of other LucasArts adventure game titles including Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders, Full Throttle and The Dig.īefore the creation of SCUMM, most adventure games, particularly those by Sierra, used a similar system to the text-based adventure games in which users would have to type commands into the interface. SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion and it was developed at Lucasfilm Games, later renamed LucasArts, to ease development on their early graphic adventure game Maniac Mansion (1987). SCUMM is the video game engine used for The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island.
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