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addedAs promised, The Sumerian Game 2.0 is finally here ! With this update, you’ll find so many new features that The Sumerian Game on Steam will feel like an entirely new experience.
addedThere are new game modes (lesser-known, yet still important versions and iterations of the original game), new achievements, fewer bugs, and a more responsive interface that should feel more comfortable than the previous version.
addedAmong all the new content, you’ll also discover a completely new game – another “missing in action” title, thought to be lost for years. It’s The Sierra Leone Game , a lesser-known and less influential game compared to The Sumerian Game , but nonetheless significant. It is the first game in history to feature a multimedia introduction (with slides and audio), player tooltips , and even a tutorial complete with a final quiz and a chance for promotion. Until now, almost nothing was known about this game – but it has now been restored and brought back to life.
changedAs always, if you’d like to support this project – which is Free to Play – we invite you to purchase the Supporter Pack and share the game with friends and others who might enjoy it. Your support helps us continue this work of research and restoration. If you like to read the book, you can get it from my official site www.andreacontato.com and Amazon and get also The Sumerian Game in big box limited edition, for C64, Apple II and PC.
changedThere are now 10 game modes, compared to 5 in the previous version. The selection menu allows players to immediately view the relationship between the various versions and then personally experience the differences and the evolution of the original concept through its numerous iterations. Here are the details: Sum9rx: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is a reconstruction of the version created in parallel by IBM at the Mohansic Laboratory (now the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights). It is a simplified and rudimentary version of the gameplay that later became famous thanks to Hamurabi. The reconstruction was possible through some fragments of game output listings and Richard Wing’s notes. It is only 50% faithful, as assumptions had to be made about mechanics not described by Wing. Available only to those who purchase the Supporter Pack. Suilxr: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is the reconstruction of the most well-known version of the game, created by Mabel Addis at BOCES in Yorktown Heights in 1965 and improved over the following two years. It is 95% faithful, as nearly all necessary information was recovered from archives, output listings, and Wing's notes. Available to everyone in the Free to Play version. Suilxr advanced: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is the complete version of Suilxr with player questions and slides. It is only 75% faithful to the original version because some texts (the questions) and the slide mechanic have been lost. The reconstruction is based on assumptions about how and when the slides would be loaded from the projector, and on questions recreated
The Sumerian Game changes
addedAs promised, The Sumerian Game 2.0 is finally here ! With this update, you’ll find so many new features that The Sumerian Game on Steam will feel like an entirely new experience.
addedThere are new game modes (lesser-known, yet still important versions and iterations of the original game), new achievements, fewer bugs, and a more responsive interface that should feel more comfortable than the previous version.
addedAmong all the new content, you’ll also discover a completely new game – another “missing in action” title, thought to be lost for years. It’s The Sierra Leone Game , a lesser-known and less influential game compared to The Sumerian Game , but nonetheless significant. It is the first game in history to feature a multimedia introduction (with slides and audio), player tooltips , and even a tutorial complete with a final quiz and a chance for promotion. Until now, almost nothing was known about this game – but it has now been restored and brought back to life.
changedAs always, if you’d like to support this project – which is Free to Play – we invite you to purchase the Supporter Pack and share the game with friends and others who might enjoy it. Your support helps us continue this work of research and restoration. If you like to read the book, you can get it from my official site www.andreacontato.com and Amazon and get also The Sumerian Game in big box limited edition, for C64, Apple II and PC.
changedThere are now 10 game modes, compared to 5 in the previous version. The selection menu allows players to immediately view the relationship between the various versions and then personally experience the differences and the evolution of the original concept through its numerous iterations. Here are the details: Sum9rx: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is a reconstruction of the version created in parallel by IBM at the Mohansic Laboratory (now the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights). It is a simplified and rudimentary version of the gameplay that later became famous thanks to Hamurabi. The reconstruction was possible through some fragments of game output listings and Richard Wing’s notes. It is only 50% faithful, as assumptions had to be made about mechanics not described by Wing. Available only to those who purchase the Supporter Pack. Suilxr: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is the reconstruction of the most well-known version of the game, created by Mabel Addis at BOCES in Yorktown Heights in 1965 and improved over the following two years. It is 95% faithful, as nearly all necessary information was recovered from archives, output listings, and Wing's notes. Available to everyone in the Free to Play version. Suilxr advanced: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is the complete version of Suilxr with player questions and slides. It is only 75% faithful to the original version because some texts (the questions) and the slide mechanic have been lost. The reconstruction is based on assumptions about how and when the slides would be loaded from the projector, and on questions recreated
Dear players,
As promised, The Sumerian Game 2.0 is finally here! With this update, you’ll find so many new features that The Sumerian Game on Steam will feel like an entirely new experience.
There are new game modes (lesser-known, yet still important versions and iterations of the original game), new achievements, fewer bugs, and a more responsive interface that should feel more comfortable than the previous version.
But that’s not all!
Among all the new content, you’ll also discover a completely new game – another “missing in action” title, thought to be lost for years. It’s The Sierra Leone Game, a lesser-known and less influential game compared to The Sumerian Game, but nonetheless significant. It is the first game in history to feature a multimedia introduction (with slides and audio), player tooltips, and even a tutorial complete with a final quiz and a chance for promotion. Until now, almost nothing was known about this game – but it has now been restored and brought back to life.
We hope that all the effort we’ve put into creating this version has been worthwhile, and that the opportunity to explore and compare all these different versions of The Sumerian Game, while witnessing the evolution of its original concept into something more modern, will both entertain you and spark your interest.
As always, if you’d like to support this project – which is Free to Play – we invite you to purchase the Supporter Pack and share the game with friends and others who might enjoy it. Your support helps us continue this work of research and restoration. If you like to read the book, you can get it from my official site www.andreacontato.com and Amazon and get also The Sumerian Game in big box limited edition, for C64, Apple II and PC.
Thank you so much, and enjoy the game!
Changelog:
There are now 10 game modes, compared to 5 in the previous version. The selection menu allows players to immediately view the relationship between the various versions and then personally experience the differences and the evolution of the original concept through its numerous iterations.
Here are the details
Sum9rx: already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is a reconstruction of the version created in parallel by IBM at the Mohansic Laboratory (now the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights). It is a simplified and rudimentary version of the gameplay that later became famous thanks to Hamurabi. The reconstruction was possible through some fragments of game output listings and Richard Wing’s notes. It is only 50% faithful, as assumptions had to be made about mechanics not described by Wing. Available only to those who purchase the Supporter Pack.
Suilxr
already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is the reconstruction of the most well-known version of the game, created by Mabel Addis at BOCES in Yorktown Heights in 1965 and improved over the following two years. It is 95% faithful, as nearly all necessary information was recovered from archives, output listings, and Wing's notes. Available to everyone in the Free to Play version.
Suilxr advanced
already present in The Sumerian Game 1.0, this is the complete version of Suilxr with player questions and slides. It is only 75% faithful to the original version because some texts (the questions) and the slide mechanic have been lost. The reconstruction is based on assumptions about how and when the slides would be loaded from the projector, and on questions recreated
