Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress
Encyclopedia
Tony Tough 2: A Rake’s Progress is a 2006 PC adventure game
designed by Stefano Gualeni
and published by Dtp-entertainment.
, A Rake’s Progress was designed following the structure and the organization of two existing works with the same title
The game follows one day in the life of Tony Tough as he investigates alien-landings and ancient Indian-cultures in his hometown of Washington, New Mexico during the early 1950’s.
The game focuses on conversations with strange characters, puzzle solving, and combining and using items found throughout the game with the objective to make sense to a twisted mystery which involves the disappearance of seven ancient statues and Tony’s own maid Cornelia Cook as well as the death of Cornelia’s grandmother Florence Cook (allegedly inspired to the spiritualist Katie King
).
The game, as well as all the other works ever inspired by Igor Stravinsky
's The Rake's Progress
(as well as Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress
), follows the regression of the main character and the loss of the qualities which made him/her human in the first place. In A Rake's Progress, the loss of Tony Tough's innocence as well as his beloved dog Pantagruel coincides with his starting to developing into a private detective.
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
designed by Stefano Gualeni
Stefano Gualeni
Trained as an architect, Stefano Gualeni is an Italian game designer who is best known for creating the games Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths and Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress....
and published by Dtp-entertainment.
Gameplay
A prequel to Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted MothsTony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths
Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths is a PC adventure game designed by Stefano Gualeni, developed by Prograph Research, released in Italy in 1997 and published in the U.S...
, A Rake’s Progress was designed following the structure and the organization of two existing works with the same title
- A Rake's ProgressA Rake's ProgressA Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–33 then engraved and published in print form in 1735...
: a set of eight prints published in 1735 by William HogarthWilliam HogarthWilliam Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"... - A Rake’s Progress: sixteen plates created in 1963 by David HockneyDavid HockneyDavid Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
The game follows one day in the life of Tony Tough as he investigates alien-landings and ancient Indian-cultures in his hometown of Washington, New Mexico during the early 1950’s.
The game focuses on conversations with strange characters, puzzle solving, and combining and using items found throughout the game with the objective to make sense to a twisted mystery which involves the disappearance of seven ancient statues and Tony’s own maid Cornelia Cook as well as the death of Cornelia’s grandmother Florence Cook (allegedly inspired to the spiritualist Katie King
Katie King
Katie King may refer to:*Katie King , Olympic athlete*Katie King , name given by spiritualists to what they believed to be a materialized spirit...
).
The game, as well as all the other works ever inspired by Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
's The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago...
(as well as Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress
A Harlot's Progress
A Harlot's Progress is a series of six paintings and engravings by William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, Mary Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute...
), follows the regression of the main character and the loss of the qualities which made him/her human in the first place. In A Rake's Progress, the loss of Tony Tough's innocence as well as his beloved dog Pantagruel coincides with his starting to developing into a private detective.
External links
- Tony Tough 2: development diary
- Tony Tough 2 at The Internet Movie Database
- Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted MothsTony Tough and the Night of Roasted MothsTony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths is a PC adventure game designed by Stefano Gualeni, developed by Prograph Research, released in Italy in 1997 and published in the U.S...