Transfer Point is a modern adventure game made with 40-year-old software
One of the year's most intriguing games was developed using software first released 40 years ago. Transfer Point looks and plays like a classic Mac point-and-click adventure game, and there's a very good reason for that: It was developed using World Builder, a game creation tool first released in 1986 that has since become freeware. "The initial motivation was wanting to share this tool that was really innovative at the time, and meant a lot to me as a kid," says developer Mike Piontek. "But the plan was to spend a few weeks on it, and I ended up doing it for over a year."
Piontek first became obsessed with adventure games as a kid, and a l ...