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Sam & Max: Freelance Police

Index Sam & Max: Freelance Police

Sam & Max: Freelance Police was a graphic adventure computer game developed by LucasArts from 2002 until its cancellation in 2004, and the final game in the company's adventure game era. [1]

47 relations: Adventure game, Anthropomorphism, Bacchanalia, Bill Farmer, Bump mapping, Comic book, Digital distribution, Dog, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Episodic video game, Escape from Monkey Island, Full Throttle (1995 video game), Game engine, Gladius (video game), Grim Fandango, Hyper (magazine), Lightmap, LucasArts, LucasArts adventure games, Mark Griskey, Michael Stemmle, Microsoft Windows, Minigame, Modern Paganism, Nick Jameson, PC game, PC Gamer, Player character, Point and click, Power-up, Proprietary software, Rabbit, RTX Red Rock, Sam & Max, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Sam & Max Save the World, SCUMM, Shader, Simon Jeffery, Single-player video game, Space station, Star Wars, Star Wars: Obi-Wan, Steve Purcell, Telltale Games, Video game journalism, 3D computer graphics.

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Bacchanalia

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia.

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Bill Farmer

William Farmer (born November 14, 1952) is an American voice actor and comedian.

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Bump mapping

Bump mapping is a technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution (also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution (ESD), among others) is the delivery or distribution of media content such as audio, video, software and video games.

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Dog

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the gray wolf or Canis familiaris when considered a distinct species) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.

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Electronic Entertainment Expo

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly referred to as E3, is a premier trade event for the video game industry.

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Episodic video game

An episodic video game is a video game of a shorter length that is commercially released as an installment to a continuous and larger series.

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Escape from Monkey Island

Escape from Monkey Island is a computer adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000.

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Full Throttle (1995 video game)

Full Throttle is a graphic adventure video game developed by LucasArts and designed by Tim Schafer.

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Game engine

A game engine is a software development environment designed for people to build video games.

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Gladius (video game)

Gladius is a tactical role-playing video game developed and published by LucasArts.

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Grim Fandango

Grim Fandango is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1998 for Windows, directed by Tim Schafer.

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Hyper (magazine)

Hyper is a multi-platform Australian video game magazine.

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Lightmap

A lightmap is a data structure used in lightmapping, a form of surface caching in which the brightness of surfaces in a virtual scene is pre-calculated and stored in texture maps for later use.

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LucasArts

LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game publisher and licensor.

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LucasArts adventure games

From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, LucasArts was well known for their point-and-click graphic adventure games, nearly all of which received high scoring reviews at the time of their release.

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Mark Griskey

Mark Griskey (born 1963) is an American composer who has composed for such popular games as Marvel Heroes (video game), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords, and Star Wars: The Old Republic as well as several titles for Disney Publishing Worldwide.

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Michael Stemmle

Michael J. Stemmle (born 1967) is a computer game writer, designer, and director who cocreated some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Minigame

A minigame (also spelled mini-game or mini game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short video game often contained within another video game, and sometimes in application software or on a display of any form of hardware.

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Modern Paganism

Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

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Nick Jameson

Nick Jameson (born July 10, 1950) is an American actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Russian president Yuri Suvarov over three seasons on the show 24.

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PC game

PC games, also known as computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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Player character

A player character (also known as PC and playable character) is a fictional character in a role-playing game or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

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Point and click

Point and click are the actions of a computer user moving a pointer to a certain location on a screen (pointing) and then pressing a button on a mouse, usually the left button (click), or other pointing device.

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Power-up

In video games, power-ups are objects that instantly benefit or add extra abilities to the game character as a game mechanic.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).

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RTX Red Rock

RTX Red Rock is an action-adventure game developed and published by LucasArts for the PlayStation 2.

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Sam & Max

Sam & Max is a media franchise focusing on the titular fictional characters, the Freelance Police.

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Sam & Max Hit the Road

Sam & Max Hit the Road is a graphic adventure video game released by LucasArts during the company's adventure games era.

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Sam & Max Save the World

Sam & Max Save the World is a graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games.

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SCUMM

Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion (SCUMM) is a video game engine developed at Lucasfilm Games, later renamed LucasArts, to ease development on their first graphic adventure game Maniac Mansion (1987).

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Shader

In computer graphics, a shader is a type of computer program that was originally used for shading (the production of appropriate levels of light, darkness, and color within an image) but which now performs a variety of specialized functions in various fields of computer graphics special effects or does video post-processing unrelated to shading, or even functions unrelated to graphics at all.

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Simon Jeffery

Simon Jeffery is the chief publishing officer of ngmoco's Plus+ Publishing group.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Space station

A space station, also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station, is a spacecraft capable of supporting crewmembers, which is designed to remain in space (most commonly as an artificial satellite in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Star Wars: Obi-Wan

Star Wars: Obi-Wan is a 2001 video game published by LucasArts, one of the early titles for the Xbox console.

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Steve Purcell

Steven Ross Purcell (born 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator, and game designer.

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Telltale Games

Telltale Incorporated, doing business as Telltale Games, is an American video game developer and publisher based in San Rafael, California.

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Video game journalism

Video game journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics or three-dimensional computer graphics, (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%26_Max:_Freelance_Police

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