Editing Sierra Creative Interpreter (section)

{{Short description|Game engine developed by Sierra On-Line}}
{{notability|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox software
| title                  = Sierra Creative Interpreter
| name                   = Sierra Creative Interpreter
| logo                   = <!-- [[File: ]] -->
| screenshot             =
| caption                = Screenshot from King’s Quest V (1990), showcasing its VGA graphics and point-and-click interface powered by Sierra’s Creative Interpreter (SCI).
| author                 = Jeff Stephenson
| developer              = [[Sierra Entertainment|Sierra On-Line]]
| released               = {{start date and age|1988|09|p=y}}
| discontinued           = 1996
| latest release version = 
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|1996|09|23|p=y}}
| programming language   = 
| operating system       = [[MS-DOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Classic Mac OS]], [[AmigaOS]]
| platform               = [[x86]] 
| size                   = 
| language               = [[English language|English]]
| genre                  = [[Game engine]]
| license                = [[Proprietary software]]
}}

The '''Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI)''' was a game engine developed by [[Sierra Entertainment|Sierra On-Line]] in the late 1980s as a successor to the earlier AGI ([[Adventure Game Interpreter]]) engine. SCI first appeared with ''[[King's Quest IV|King’s Quest IV]]'' in 1988 and powered many of Sierra’s adventure games through the 1990s. It introduced higher-resolution graphics, a [[Point and click|point-and-click]] interface, a more sophisticated scripting language, and support for richer audio and animation.<ref name="SCIWiki">{{cite web |title=Sierra Creative Interpreter |work=SCI Wiki – Sierra Help Pages |url=http://sciwiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php?title=Sierra_Creative_Interpreter |access-date=3 May 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Fernández-Vara | first=Clara | chapter=Shaping Player Experience in Adventure Games: History of the Adventure Game Interface | editor-first=Olli | editor-last=Leino | editor-first2=Hanna | editor-last2=Wirman | editor-first3=Amyris | editor-last3=Fernandez | title=Extending Experiences: Structure, Analysis and Design of Computer Game Player Experience | publisher=Lapland University Press | location=Rovaniemi | year=2008 | pages=210–227 | isbn=978-952-484-197-9 | url=https://www.academia.edu/39681183/Extending_Experiences | access-date=3 May 2025 }}</ref>