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Time for a confession: I have a love-hate relationship with adventure games. At their best, they have the power to completely enthrall me with their stories, characters and worlds. At their worst, adventure games can send me spiraling into depression. Perhaps you feel similarly conflicted. If you often play adventure games, you are undoubtedly aware […]

A few years ago, publishers wouldn’t touch a cartoon adventure with a ten foot pole. Realistically, they wouldn’t touch them with a pole attached to a robot controlled remotely from an underground bunker. Their attitude towards cartoon-styled adventures was unjustified in retrospect (as evidenced by the commercial success of games like Runaway and Sam & […]

“We wanted to have elements that feel dynamic, that make you feel that your experience is ‘my experience’.”   Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is, to this day, still considered one of the finest adventure games ever made. The globe-trotting adventure gave players the choice between three parallel paths, each with an emphasis […]

It was an exhausting but fun few days at Games Convention. We'll be posting more articles from the show in the next couple of days — some of them by myself, others by our German friends at Adventure-Treff, who had a large crew to the show. But for now, here's some pictures I took at […]

Is it possible that, just maybe, we are putting former LucasArts game designers on too high a pedestal? As a long-time fan of classic LucasArts games, my immediate response would be ‘no, what are you smoking?’, but I’d be lying if I claimed the thought had never crossed my mind. Sometimes you just step back […]

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