Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) is the scripting language created by Jeff Stephenson of Sierra On-Line for its adventure games after the older AGI, and the runtime environment for such adventure games.
Although ports for the Amiga, Atari ST and Macintosh platforms exist, the primary development was for the IBM PC platform.
While AGI was a procedural language, SCI is completely object-oriented.
Although continuously developed between 1988 and ...
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Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) is the scripting language created by Jeff Stephenson of Sierra On-Line for its adventure games after the older AGI, and the runtime environment for such adventure games.
Although ports for the Amiga, Atari ST and Macintosh platforms exist, the primary development was for the IBM PC platform.
While AGI was a procedural language, SCI is completely object-oriented.
Although continuously developed between 1988 and 1996, five major versions can be isolated:
First used for King's Quest 4 in 1988, SCI0 (0.000.xxx) allowed for 320x200 graphics with 16 colors as well as a music-card compatible soundtrack. It also supported parser-based keyboard input which a game could be scripted to use if it wishes to do so (non-adventure games usually didn't).
Games using SCI0 (in order of release):
Later versions of SCI0 added bilingual support for international versions; their version string reads "S.OLD.xxx". Games include:
The last SCI0 game, Jones in the Fast Lane,...
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