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Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by Strategic Simulations from 1988 to 1992. The company acquired a license to produce games based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR, Inc. [1] These games share a common game engine that came to be known as the "Gold Box Engine" after the gold-colored boxes in which most games of the series were sold.
The game's principal technical enhancement to the aging Gold Box engine was the addition of wilderness play, where the party traveled long distances on the map while following the basic D&D rules for combat with wandering monsters. The game also featured character-specific side-quests, with two NPCs who can open these optional missions. The ...
Insurgency received the Player's Choice 2007 "Mod of the Year" award from ModDB, [56] as well as the "Best Source Mod of 2007" Gold Award from Steamfriends. [57] Iron Grip: The Oppression - A first-person shooter/real-time strategy hybrid set within the fictional Iron Grip universe in a predominantly urban setting. The game pits two separate ...
This page lists games available on the Steam platform that support its "Steam Workshop", which allows for distribution and integration of user-generated content (typically modifications, new levels and models, and other in-game content) directly through the Steam software. With this, players can select content to download, including content ...
Ports of the game to OS X and Linux were released through Steam on August 1, 2013. [11] Science and Industry – A team-based multiplayer mod in which players take the roles of security guards at two competing research firms. It features a weapons research system. The Specialists – This multiplayer mod is intended to resemble a stylized ...
This is a comprehensive index of commercial role-playing video games, sorted chronologically by year.Information regarding date of release, developer, publisher, operating system, subgenre and notability is provided where available.
It was the last Gold Box game to sell more than 100,000. [4] Scorpia of Computer Gaming World in 1990 wrote " Secret of the Silver Blades could easily have been sub-titled 'Hackmania'" because of the game's emphasis of combat, and stated that it was the most linear of the Gold Box series.
Unlimited Adventures is a construction kit for computer role-playing games, and drew its content from the prior Gold Box engine games, [3] with improved graphics. SSI's contract with TSR, Inc. required the former to stop using the Gold Box engine, so the company released its development tools.