Join the fight to save King's Quest IX

by James Ransom-Wiley { Nov 14th 2005 at 1:45PM }

Vivendi Universal Games has seemingly put an end to the fan-created King's Quest sequel, KQIX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining. The game has been in development since 2002 and was intended to be a free, for-fans-by-fans project. Unfortunately, the powers that be have issued a cease and desist order, putting KQIX on indefinite pause. In response, the Save King's Quest IX campaign has been launched—and it needs your help!

[Thanks, Matt]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

bryan @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

I was realy looking forward o this title. Its to bad it got shut down. I think it was shut down because of all the attention it was getting. Sending letter to the copywrite holders will only confirm the amount of interest in this franchise. Adventure games seem to be making a comback (siberia, still life), and hopefully we can put on grahams adventure cap one more time.

mat @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

SPACE QUEST! SPACE QUEST! SPACE QUEST! Thats what we really need...

SickNic @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Man, I loved playing Space quest, Kings quest, and police Quest when I was a kid. Those were some of the first PC games I played (besides wolfenstein). I'd love to get back into the Quest series again. I sent my email already.

Rob X @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

They got shut down for calling it King's Quest and portraying it as a sequel. You don't see VU shutting down Peasant's Quest (http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html) do you?

Sam @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

I don't see why they can't just change the name and remove any King's Quest-related content and release it like that. It's not like they're using code from previous games.

Andrew @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Rob X, I don't see them shutting down the people making the remakes of King's Quest I&II and Quest for Glory II either...

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

Katie @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Hello! Thanks for the shout-out:) I'm Katie, the Asst. Director of Game Design for KQIX, and we really appreciate all the support we've gotten since recieving the C&D letter.

We are exploring our options at this point, and a number of things have come up, been considered and are being reviewed by the team even now. Hopefully that'll lead to good news at some point.

Again, thanks so much!

~Katie Hallahan
Asst. Director of Game Design
KQIX Project

Ryuukuro @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Hey, I know how to fix this! It's a little plan called "DON'T CALL IT FREAKIN' KING'S QUEST"

All you have to do is change to copyrighted stuff to not copyrighted stuff and there you have it.

I hate seeing big corporations step on the little guy but when the little guy doesn't take step to protect himself like avoiding trademarks then they lose my sympathy.