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'''Author:''' [[Alan Caudel]]<br />
 
'''Author:''' [[Alan Caudel]]<br />
 
'''Related games:''' ''[[Adam's Birthday Game]]'', ''[[The Adam's Birthday Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam's B-Day 3: The Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam '98]]'', ''[[Adam 98]]'',  ''[[Adam 99]]'',  ''[[Adam 2000]]''
 
'''Related games:''' ''[[Adam's Birthday Game]]'', ''[[The Adam's Birthday Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam's B-Day 3: The Saga Continues]]'', ''[[Adam '98]]'', ''[[Adam 98]]'',  ''[[Adam 99]]'',  ''[[Adam 2000]]''
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}}The ''[[Adam's Birthday]]'' series serves as one of the more reliable barometers for its author Alan Caudel's shifting skill and focus as a designer. The yearly cycle helps to chart and lend context to Caudel's work as a whole, offering an uncommon extended insight to a creative process.
  
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''Adam '96'', as one of the later recoveries from Caudel's early work, bridges a gap in this path, resting between the manic excess of ''[[Adam '95]]'' and its contemporaries (''[[Lil' Choklit Donit Man]]''; ''[[Mr. Berkel Derkel!]]'') and the calmer elegance of ''[[Adam '97]]''.
  
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To reach that level of confidence, we pass through a bridge period informed less by the Tex Avery school of extreme reaction and more by
  
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Dummy Duck 3
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The Complete Bone Adventures
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Power Budd
  
 
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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
  
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== Downloads ==
 
== Downloads ==

Latest revision as of 21:49, 2 July 2021

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The Adam's Birthday series serves as one of the more reliable barometers for its author Alan Caudel's shifting skill and focus as a designer. The yearly cycle helps to chart and lend context to Caudel's work as a whole, offering an uncommon extended insight to a creative process.

Adam '96, as one of the later recoveries from Caudel's early work, bridges a gap in this path, resting between the manic excess of Adam '95 and its contemporaries (Lil' Choklit Donit Man; Mr. Berkel Derkel!) and the calmer elegance of Adam '97.

To reach that level of confidence, we pass through a bridge period informed less by the Tex Avery school of extreme reaction and more by

Dummy Duck 3 The Complete Bone Adventures Power Budd

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Adam's Birthday series

Story[edit]

Getting started in Adam '96

You gotta get the present, etc.

Instructions[edit]

Lightsaber:

  • keyboard: left "," / right "."
  • joystick: left or right button

Gun:

  • keyboard: space bar
  • joystick: both buttons

The Rest:

  • Ah, you know.

Credits[edit]

Me

Availability[edit]

This game is not known to have been distributed in any form, prior to its addition to the Archive.

Archive History[edit]

On March 14, 2018, Alan Caudel uncovered the long-lost Adam '96, alongside the highly unusual Virtual Apartment.

Links[edit]

Downloads[edit]