The Silver Lining

King's Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining, aka KQIX, is an unofficial fanmade sequel to the series and will answer many of the unsolved problems in the series. It is currently being developed by Phoenix Online Studios.

Part I: Shadows is due to be released Winter 2005. It will star King Graham.

Part II: The Two That Are One is due to be released approx. Winter 2006. It stars King Alexander and Princess Rosella.

Part III: Eternities is due to be released sometime in 2007.

The developers have said that KQIX follows the history of the official KQ games rather than the KQ2 remake. So expanded history, new characters, and altered characters from the remake do not apply to the story.

An unofficial timeline was created for this game by the KQIX team. However, no official source has given specific dates (except for mentioning how much time passed between each game), but rather chose to keep most dates vague.

It should be noted however that KQIX timeline differs slightly from the official refrences to time between games made in the sierra games, game manuals and official strategy guides. It is unknown if its merely a mistake on their part, or intentional.

It is also not known to what extent the KQIX Timeline will affect the storyline of their game (I.E. how many specific refrences to dates will be made within the game itself).

The saga continues. Be prepared.

Update: The KQ IX team has decided to close the project due to Vivendi Universal asking them to "cease and desist any further development"

Vivendi may have sent out the letter because they are rereleasing a "King's Quest Compilation" which is released on October 11, 2005. So Vivendi may not want any competition or confusion with their product, and the fanmade KQIX.

The team has said previously in the event that if Vivendi forced them to stop making the game due to copyright issues with the name "King's Quest", and use of its intellectual properties, that they would turn it into another adventure game altogether by changing the names, and the graphics. However, production has gone so far into the game that this probably wasn't possible at this point.

Nothing is known yet if this will affect any other fan games that were previously made or are currently in development.

Fans have been rallying to the cause of saving the project, however. They have set up a webpage with a letter writing campaign and other content, as well as a chat room. Also, by emailing [Cat] at koko_99_2001@yahoo.com, fans can receive a petition with instructions to participate.