{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-23T19:07:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-09-23T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:53:57","slug":"aboutack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/aboutack\/","title":{"rendered":"About ACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adventure Creation Kit (ACK) is a game development tool by Chris Hopkins that allows you design and play top-down 2D tile-based RPGs like Ultima IV &amp; V of yore.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Despite being an MS-DOS program, it runs on modern Windows and Apple computers via the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/download-ack\/\">ACK Launcher program<\/a>. Also, despite being more than 15 years old, it is easy-to-use, very flexible and fun.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Chris&#8217; inspiration for making ACK was the 80&#8217;s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adventure_Construction_Set\" target=\"_blank\">Adventure Construction Set<\/a> by Stuart Smith, which also allowed you to create your own RPGs. \u00a0Hopkins improved on ACS in almost every way.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Chris Hopkins finished ACK in 1995 and made it freeware sometime in 2000, and I hope these pages will spark some interest in the fine program he made.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mozomedia.com\/ack\/launcher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventure Creation Kit (ACK) is a game development tool by Chris Hopkins that allows you design and play top-down 2D tile-based RPGs like Ultima IV &amp; V of yore. Despite being an MS-DOS program, it runs on modern Windows and Apple computers via the ACK Launcher program. Also, despite being more than 15 years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mozomedia.com\/ack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}