The Silver Lining is the fan-designed ninth episode inspired by the King’s Quest series. This series is Sierra On-Line’s flagship collection of adventure games, designed by the award-winning Roberta Williams. The Silver Lining is a 3D cinematic 3rd person screen-to-screen, point-and-click adventure game for your PC, and you can now get a demo via TSL-game.com.
The Silver Lining features: a 1500+ page script, 9 chapters, hundreds of characters, gigabytes of 2D & 3D artwork, both a live & online voiceover cast, hundreds of songs and all being put into a 3D game engine. And above all it’s a great way for point & click adventure fans to get their game on after the last release of King’s Quest VIII in 1998. “The Silver Lining – Part One: Shadows” is the first game in a Trilogy.
History of the game’s fanbase development: In 2002, a group of fans, under the name Phoenix 
Online Studios, undertook to create a new episode to the King’s Quest series. They intended to call it King’s Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining. In 2005, Vivendi Universal sent a cease and desist letter and shut down the King’s Quest IX project, a few months before the final release date. A Save King’s Quest IX petition was started to save the shut down King’s Quest IX.
On December 9, 2005, an agreement was reached between Vivendi Universal and Phoenix Online Studios to allow development to continue. The main condition imposed by Vivendi Universal was to remove the “King’s Quest” brand from the name of the game, which was renamed as The Silver Lining. This created rumors that Vivendi themselves are either planning or developing the ninth game in the Kings Quest series, though there has been no information to prove this true.
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