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Welcome to the SPHINX Massive AGS Game Development Wiki! This site presents the work in progress on SPHINX, an adventure game that is being developed as an open project, and which you can contribute to right here.

Since nearly all the materials for the game are available here, this site is full of spoilers for the finished game. If you are certain you don't want to contribute, you should be careful about which pages you look at. Try the article on the AGS Wiki instead.

About the Game

You play as Ravi, a travelling puppeteer and charlatan. Ravi has come to the big city to make his fortune (or at least enough for a ticket somewhere far away from anyone he owes money to), but instead he meets a girl with a mysterious past and gets mixed up with revolutionaries trying to overthrow the government. In the middle of the city, among skyscrapers and subway stations, someone is digging up an ancient, enormous sphinx, and the statue is causing political and religious tensions to boil over. Nothing you can't deal with... until the sphinx wakes up.

http://home.comcast.net/~snarkibartfast/images/sphinx/sphinxmockup3c.gif

Mockup screen from the game, by big brother

SPHINX is an ambitious, modern adventure game in the classic style. Designed as an episodic game, the plans at this point cover the first four episodes. SPHINX is currently in development. And, by the way, "SPHINX" is, for the time being, a working title.

How to Join

You don't have to sign up or register to become part of the SPHINX team. All you need to know to help out on the game is here on this web site, and you can contribute from within the web site as well. Or, if you prefer, you can post to the Project Forum. Or you can get in touch with Snarky, Big Brother, SSH, or one of the other regular contributors and they'll take care of it for you.

About the Project

SPHINX is being developed as an open project, meaning that the work-in-progress is available and that anyone can contribute to it. We use the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike (by-sa) License, which means that everyone owns the work they've done on the game, but others are allowed to modify and add to it. Most of the work is contained in this Wiki, so you can contribute online simply by posting new articles or editing existing ones. There is also a separate forum for the project.

About the Wiki

This site is a Wiki, a kind of website that can easily be modified by visitors just within their browsers. The most famous Wiki is Wikipedia. (This Wiki is not part of Wikipedia, nor of the AGS Wiki, though it often links to both.) The site was set up by AGA at the request of Snarky. We are still working on configuring the Wiki, so please excuse any rough edges.

News

Due to high levels of spam, editing of the Wiki has been restricted to registered users. If activity ever picks up again we may open it up again. --Snarky 15:26, 28 May 2007 (CEST)
After lying dormant for a few months, production on the game has recently started to pick up again. Check out the recent updates! --Snarky 15:52, 4 October 2006
Adventure Gamers has posted a news item about this project. I guess I'm now a "well known member of the AGS community". Woo! --Snarky 26 June 2006

Recent Updates

SPHINX now has its first music track. Check out otter's loop, apparently for the screen below. Comments?
Ali offers another Episode 1 background. This is for the first screen of the game:

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/SphynxRoadNew.gif

There are discussion threads for the picture on the AGS Critics Lounge and the Project Forums, so please add your comments!