Hall (pictured) and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio. It was released
worldwide in June 2001 for Microsoft Windows. The turn-based game
follows a down-and-out private investigator looking for work in the
slums of planet Anachronox; he travels to other planets, collects an
unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the
fate of the universe. The game's design and unconventional humor were
influenced by cyberpunk and film noir; inspirations include the video
game Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series, animator Chuck Jones,
and the novel Ender's Game. The game was built with a heavily modified
version of the Quake II engine, rewritten chiefly to allow a wider color
palette, emotive animations and facial expressions, and better particle,
lighting, and camera effects. Originally planned for a 1998 release,
Anachronox 's development was long and difficult. Critics
enjoyed the game and awarded it high marks for its design and story, but
Ion Storm closed down one month after the game's release. In 2003,
Anachronox cinematic director Jake Hughes spliced together gameplay
footage and cutscenes to create a feature-length award-winning film.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronox>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1328:
William of Ockham, an English friar who originated the
methodological principle Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under
threat from Pope John XXII.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham>
1828:
Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal
House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser>
1865:
American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the
surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force
remaining in the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kirby_Smith>
1940:
Second World War: A flotilla of "little ships" began a mass
evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops cut off by the German
army during the Battle of Dunkirk.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation>
1991:
Lauda Air Flight 004 experienced an uncommanded thrust reverser
deployment of an engine and broke apart in mid-air, killing all 223
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eyrie:
1. A bird of prey's nest.
2. Any high and remote but commanding place.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eyrie>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We erased a problem by not trying to erase the problem, by
saying, "This is in the nature of what we do." It's really weird that it
could be that simple.
--Ward Cunningham
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham>
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