Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne

Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne
Developer(s)Kheops Studio[4]
Publisher(s)The Adventure Company[5]
Designer(s)Alexis Lang
Platform(s)Windows
Release
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player
Ardan jumps across the surface of the Moon in a minigame.

Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne (known as Journey to the Moon in the United Kingdom and Australia)[3] is a point-and-click adventure game with pre-rendered graphics,[6] developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company for the PC in 2005.[4][5] The game's story focuses on a French adventurer's journey to the Moon in the 19th century,[7] and the ancient lunar civilization he subsequently finds.[6]

Voyage is loosely based on the novels From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and Around the Moon (1870) by French science fiction author Jules Verne,[7] and the 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon by English science fiction author H. G. Wells.[8] Reactions to the game were mixed.[9] In particular, some reviewers praised it for immersing the player in the look and feel of the 19th century;[10] others have criticized it for featuring dated graphics and dull textures.[11]

While staying true to most adventure game conventions, Voyage has some unique features for its genre.[10] These include two dexterity minigames which take advantage of the reduced gravity in the game's lunar setting, and an "Intelligence Management System", in which a score is assigned to the player for every puzzle they solve, and for certain actions.[10][12] The Adventure Company introduced this feature to motivate players to replay the game to increase their cumulative score.[5]

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  4. ^ a b "Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne (2005)". kheopsstudio.fr. 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
  5. ^ a b c "Inspired by Jules Verne... Voyage". adventurecompanygames.com. 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
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  7. ^ a b "Journey to the Moon". journey-to-the-moon.com. 2006. Archived from the original on June 2, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
  8. ^ "Interview - Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne". gamersinfo.net. 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
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