Category: Adventure

It’s rare to see a piece of fiction survive adaptation into a different medium. Most often the thing that made that fiction’s story, its characters, or setting popular doesn’t survive the transition to another form. Being disappointed with The Walking Dead television series I wasn’t holding out much hope for the video game. …

The morning I decided to start playing the indie adventure Blackwell Deception I couldn’t stop until I finished the game. …

I’m going to cut to the chase on this one. I absolutely loved playing Gemini Rue from start to finish. It’s easily the best adventure game I’ve played in years. …

I was very excited to learn that AGDI was remaking my least favorite King’s Quest, King’s Quest III. …

I had just about completely forgotten about the indie adventure game The Dream Machine by Cockroach, Inc. Recently, I learned from The Dream Machine’s development blog feed that part two of the game was about to be released and that the entire series could be preordered.

Not too long ago I started playing the indie developed adventure game Snakes of Avalon but initially didn’t get very far. The game was over for me when, after a few minutes in, the main character had a dialogue with a poster on the wall of a bar. Later, feeling guilty about my aborted session with Snakes of Avalon, I gave the game another shot and powered through the first bit of it, resigned to the fact that things were going to get weird and that perhaps I’d find meaning from it all later.

I’ve just finished developing an adventure game. The whole project got me thinking, however, about common elements I’ve seen in adventure games. I’ve always kept an informal list of what I’ve liked and what I didn’t so that one day if I ever got around to designing my own game I’d know what to avoid and what to in include in its design. …