This week Salix Games founder and Bafta Breakthrough winner Jessica Saunders joins the pod to talk about her game “Dance of Death: Du Lac and Fey”, the game where two Arthurian legends team up to stop Jack the Ripper. She discusses myths, legends, why she wanted to tell a version of the Jack the Ripper story through one of the victim’s eyes and how she managed to get a team of AAA developers and actors to join her in the development of this game and much more!
Read MoreThis week Seoirse, Tomas and laura go through their favourite demos from the Steam Summer Festival 2020. Afterwards they also review Welcome to Elk, Lightless and Inkle Studio’s latest release, Pendragon.
Read MoreThis week Andrew Schneider sits down with Seoirse to discuss his text adventure where you get to play as Robin Hood in Nocked. In this interview he talks about the different features in his game, why he wanted to make a game about Robin Hood, how he managed to make a game with more than 1 million words (!) without going crazy, and what differences there are between the mobile and desktop version of his game. All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week Seoirse, Tomas and Laura journey to Medieval France to search for the holy grail (and put booze in it naturally) in Lancelot’s hangover. Meanwhile Tomas talks about his “big hammer” while playing Kingdom of Amalur and finally, Laura goes both Beneath and Beyond a Steel Sky and gives us her thoughts on those games.
Read MoreThis week Jean-Baptiste joins Seoirse to talk about the making of his game Lancelot’s Hangover. In this interview Jean Baptiste talks about how he got started making games, some of the difficulties he had getting his game on Steam due to the size of Lancelot’s “package”, what puzzles we can expect and why he loves the humour of Monty Python and how he is trying to incorporate that type of humour in his game and much more!
Read MoreWe’re a little late this week but we still have a lot to discuss including Myst in VR! A new Lesiure Suit Larry game! And first footage from Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition. Plus we review the latest games we have been playing including Epic Games exclusive 3 out of Ten, The Shapeshifting Detective and Tell Me Why
Read MoreThis week Seoirse “interrogates” developers Critique Gaming about their latest game “Interrogation: You will be deceived”. Thankfully no torture or violence was necessary as the developers were willing to spill the beans about their game including their inspirations, what their objectives are and how they managed to achieve their unique visual look for the game.
Read MoreThis week Laura hosts for the first time and just about manages to keep Seoirse and Tomas in order and on track. Seoirse reviews the Netflix Games Documentary High Score which features, albeit briefly, a certain Robert and Ken Williams. Then Tomas and Laura discuss the best demos they played at Gamescom and finally Laura reviews Roki, a game set in Scandinavian folklore which could possibly be one of our favourite games of the year. All that and much more!
Read MoreGamescom 2020 might have gone virtual this year but that didn’t mean that our Gamescom resident expert Laura Cress wasn’t able to speak to plenty of developers about their upcoming projects. Here she speaks to Grundislav Games’ Francisco Gonzalez about his alternate 19th Century Western point and click adventure Rosewater, like Charlie’s Dagmar Blommaert about her first person adventure game Ghost On The Shore, and Lisa Evans from Wabisabi Games about her first ever adventure game, Growbot.
Read MoreThis week Jason Godbey joins Seoirse to talk about his two games :”The Search” and “Discolored”. In the interview he discusses how he first got involved in the gaming industry, why he decided to make his games so different to each other and how he wanted to tell a story a different way in Discolored without any dialogue or voice acting. He also discusses how he he got his game to be on Apple Arcade and the advantages that brings and much more!
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This week Seoirse realises his lifelong dream of being a standup comedian in Clam Man: Open Mic with predictable results. Tomas and Laura also join Seoirse this week to review the latest adventure games they’ve been playing including the second game from the developers of Gone Home. All that and much more!
Read MoreThe lead developer of Deliver us the Moon joins Seoirse to talk moon landings, how his game evolved from its creation, how they came up with the story, what research they did and much more!
Read MoreThe Last of Us Part 2 is one of of the highest selling games of all time and with the story getting so much attention and causing so much controversy we thought we would record a two part spoiler episode. In these two episodes we talk about all the twists, the revelations and the themes of the game and much much more more.
*Also since this is a spoiler episode it should go without saying that we would recommend you do not listen to these episodes unless you have finished playing or watching on Youtube (like Seoirse did) the game or you don’t mind hearing about spoilers of the game. You have been warned!
Read MoreThe Last of Us Part 2 is one of of the highest selling games of all time and with the story getting so much attention and causing so much controversy we thought we would record a two part spoiler episode. In these two episodes we talk about all the twists, the revelations and the themes of the game and much much more more.
*Also since this is a spoiler episode it should go without saying that we would recommend you do not listen to these episodes unless you have finished playing or watching on Youtube (like Seoirse did) the game or you don’t mind hearing about spoilers of the game. You have been warned!
Read MoreIn this week’s shorter than usual episode Seoirse is joined by...himself as Tomas and Laura leave him to fend for himself to review some free prologues, a free visual novel, a sitcom set in the worst game development studio of all time and a post-apocalyptic sci-fi where the robots have taken over the world but some of the robots are becoming more human like and take it upon themselves to discover what exactly happened to the humans.
Read MoreThis week Martin from Team Clam joins Seoirse to talk our comedy adventure game of 2019, Clam Man! He talks about the aftermath of Clam Man, what his inspirations for Clam Man 2 were, why he chnaged the look of Clam Man 2 and what benefits and challenges he is facing now that he is working solo. All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week Seoirse, Tomas and Laura talk travel to the Croatian mountains, go on a treasure hunt, entor a dream to try and save a person who is suffering from severe depression, go back to the wild west and travel in a bleak, desolate, post-apocalytic setting. But enough about 2020! They also review The last of Us Part 2 and discuss if this game really is the best game of the year.
Read MoreOn this week’s episode Filipe F. Thomas developer of Into a Dream joins Seoirse to discuss his new game. They also talk about the topics of the game, what can be done to discuss mental health more in the gaming community, what Filipe hopes to achieve with this game, how he managed to convince professional voice actors to volunteer to play characters in his game and much more!
Read MoreOn this final interview celebrating 30 years of Revolution, Rolf Saxon joins Seoirse to talk about his role as George Stobbart. In this interview, Rolf talks about how he got the role to begin with, what it's liek working with the team at Revolution, what appealed to him about the script, why he thinks Broken Sword has become so successful plus much more! If you enjoyed this episode and would like to hear more interviews with more adventure game developers then please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts.
Read MoreFirst they spoke to The Guardian and now Arseniy and Laura from Party for Introverts speak to Seoirse from the Adventure Games Podcast. They’re definitely going up in the world! On this episode they take a time out to discuss their games and their approach to making games in general. They also talk about the benefits and challenges to making short games and making games in their spare time. They talk about the games they want to make and they give advice on how to work together as a couple and they talk a little about their new game they’re working on which can be wishlisted now on Steam. All that and much more!
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