Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

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Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine
Developer(s)	Himalaya Studios
Publisher(s)	Himalaya Studios
Designer(s)
Engine	Adventure Game Studio
Platform(s)	Windows, Linux
Release	September 5, 2006
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine is an adventure game created by Himalaya Studios for the PC.

Development[]

The game is designed to be a homage to the classic Sierra and LucasArts style point and click classic adventure games of the 1980s and 1990s.

This game is the first original and commercial game created by Himalaya Studios, although the same team is also responsible for designing the King's Quest 1 and 2 remakes at AGD Interactive, and drew upon this experience to create Al Emmo. The game runs on the popular Adventure Game Studio engine, and shows off some of the engine's more versatile features such as fully lipsynched dialogue portraits and its ability to handle complex animations.

It utilizes hand-painted backgrounds and pre-rendered 3D character animation frames.

In September 2012, an enhanced edition of the game featuring reworked 2D animated cut scenes and a new protagonist voice actor was announced. The enhanced edition was released in November 2013 on the Himalaya Studios website, and was made available on the Steam platform in May 2014.

The game is about a search of love, adventure and gold. It was released in 5th September 2006.

Plot[]

The plot is based loosely around a well-known legend in Arizona, the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

The story finds the protagonist, Al Emmo stranded in the barren desert land of Anozira after being stood up by a mail-order bride whom he intended to bring home in order to impress his parents. After things fail to run smoothly, Al misses his train back to New York and is stuck in the wild west for a whole week—without money, lodging, nor knowledge on what to do next.

As the plot progresses, another woman, Rita Peralto, catches Al's attention. She is the local singer at the saloon and is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the town. Al believes he may just stand a chance, until a dashing Spaniard by the name of Antonio Bandanna breezes into town and begins upstaging him at every turn. Al soon discovers the legend of a lost gold mine somewhere out in the desert and sets out to find it, believing that if he can obtain the money that Rita needs to cure her financial troubles, then he can prove himself and his sincerity to her once and for all. He is not aware of the fact that the mine is haunted.

A looming, thousand-year-old Aztec curse is bound to keep Al on his toes.

Public Reception[]

Screenshot

The game on the steam store received mixed reviews when it was released, with 60% of positive ratings. It was voted for Steam Greenlight

It receive achievements in multiple gaming articles and companies.

External links[]

• Official website
• Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine at MobyGames