On this month’s episode Seoirse is on his own as Tomas and Laura thought he was too funny and they needed a break (Well, one of part of that sentence is true at least). Seoirse bravely records on his own as he goes through the latest news and he reviews Pendulo’s animal Detective game Blacksad: Under The Skin and Laura sends in her review of Lake.
Read MoreOn this episode everything is “BRAWSOME” as Andrew Goulding drops by to talk about his new game Warp frontier. He talks about why this game is his most personal and ambitious yet and how he started game development. He also goes behind the scenes on his two previous games Jolly Rover and Macguffin’s Curse and he lets us know what he has been up to the last 9 years. All that and much more!
Read MoreWilliam and Daniel from Silvernode Studios join Seoirse to discuss “Nine Noir Lives”. They discuss why they talk about how they came up with the world and the characters and why they decided to make a comedy noir. They discuss how they built their animal detective game from “scratch” (sorry), how choosing what engine to use gave them “paws” for thought (Ok I’ll stop!) for thought and how they are making this game more accessible for both experienced and new adventure game players alike. All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week friend of the pod Olafs drops by for his first, but hopefully not last, interview where he talks all about his upcoming game Grunnd. He reveals how he went from Photography into game development, what exactly his inspirations were for the game, how and where he found the best people he could for the game and how they are able to work remotely with people from around the world. He also has some fantastic advice about game development for other developers and what he learned from releasing the demo. Speaking of which go play it. It’s really good!
Read MoreThis week Seoirse goes searching for famed British explorer Dr Livingstone, Laura has to repair a world on the brink of collapse in Minute of Islands and Tomas finally develops a backbone in the latest animal detective game, eh, Backbone. Plus they discuss their most anticipated adventure and narrative adventure games from E3 and they discuss the possibility of Disney making adventure games again (and if we actually want that to happen) All that and much more!
Read MoreIn the latest episode Seoirse reviews pandemic FMV The World After, Tomas takes flight with heavy-metal-album-turned-game Of Bird and Cage and Laura tries not to go Overboard! with praise for inkles’ brand new detective game (but fails). Plus Laura takes a look at free Choose Your Own Adventure web browser game The Boy In The Book, and the team discuss the not so breaking news that Ken and Roberta Williams are making a game!
Read MoreIn this first bonus interview, Laura speaks to Xalavier Nelson Jr all about his charming game An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs.
Read MoreDave and Aviv (aka captain D and Cosmic Void) join Seoirse this week to discuss their new game The Corruption Within, out on Steam on June 9th. They talk about how they came together in order to make the game, how they split the work between them and how they were able to work remotely in different countries and different time zones. They also give advice on how to run a successful Kickstarter and how they use skills they learned on their previous games on The Corruption within. All that and much more!
Read MoreJack and Pavle, co-founders of Flavourworks, joined Seoirse to discuss their new FMV game Erica. They talked about how they built their ground breaking engine, Touch Video, to ensure there was plenty of interactivity and to keep players engaged, how they ensured the choices mattered in the game and how to write different paths and still ensure the story makes sense, and how they managed to cast A-list actors for the game. All this and much more!
Read MoreThis week, Laura goes hitchhiking and tries to find out who she is in Hithchiker - A Mystery Game, Tomas tries to remember in Don’t Forget Me and Seoirse tries to find his partner stuck in the darkside dimension in The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark. Plus they discuss the latest news including the return of Tales of Monkey Island on Itunes (Yay), the cancellation of Tex Murphy: The Posioned Pawn (Boo) and a surprisingly funny story in an EPIC courtroom drama.
Read MoreIn another bumper episode Laura controls a game by blinking in Before Your Eyes and witnesses the Big Bang in Genesis Noir. Seoirse reviews two interrogation games as he tries to find out a young woman’s story in er, Her Story and he investigates if androids dream of electric sheep in a new Blade Runner meets Papers, Please cyberpunk interrogation game, Silicon Dreams. Finally Tomas goes searching for Paradise in alternate world war 2 historical game Paradise Lost. Plus they discuss the latest news including Itch.io coming to Epic Store and much more!
Read MoreThis week Tom Hardwidge joins Seoirse to talk about how he discovered the indie dev community, how he founded his company Tall Story Games and how he managed to make his game Hair Of The Dog in less than two weeks! He also finds time to talk about his collaboration with the Roman Baths in Bath, UK to make his Roman era set game Where’s my Cloak and his fun game Lockdown: The point & click game. Finally, he tells us what to expect from the Kickstarter for retro Lucasarts inspired game Lucy Dreaming what we can expect from the game and how he managed to find the perfect voice actor for the role!
Read MoreIn this episode Seoirse reviews the brand new game from the developers of Rainswept, Forgotten Fields. Whilst Tomas heads into Lovecraft country with Chronicles of Innsmouth and its new recent sequel Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness. Meanwhile Laura is looking at some more quirky titles, reviewing Wide Ocean Big Jacket and Internet Court. Plus the gang look at the demo of Plot of the Druid: Nightwatch and there’s news about some brand new Cloudpunk DLC. In a new discussion topic they also ask - is nostalgia a bad thing in adventure games?
Read MoreThis week Tomas tells us about the life and suffering of Sir Bronte, Laura travels to the Dark Side of the Moon and Seoirse investigates a murder with Inspector Waffles. Plus they discuss the latest news including the announcement of a new Life is Strange game and the rather bizarre decision by the Australia Classification board not to allow Disco Elysium to be released as it goes "against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults". Good thing they don’t classify this podcast! All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week Nihal Tharoor joins the pod to talk about his Bafta Nominated Interactive Crime Drama for Andriod and Iphone Dead Man’s Phone. He talks about how he and his teams are looking to create a new platform and how this game puts you into the shoes of a detective. He also talks about how they managed to get a real murder detective to appear in the game and what plans they have for the future. Oh and the first season of the game is free! With no ads! All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week Yann from Goloso Games joins Seoirse to talk about his new game, Inspector waffles, which has just been released. He talks about its origins, how he got in touch with a publisher and his thoughts on voice acting. He also takes time to take about the reaction to his first game Antenna Dilemma and how likely it is that we can expect a sequel. All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week Laura reviews first person recursive puzzle adventure game Maquette and goes to 1990’s Ireland in If Found… Meanwhile Tomas has to resole a mystery in Tiny Room and Seoirse tries to survive for 4 days in Don’t Escape: 4 days to Survive. Finally they also set the record straight on yet another article that says that the adventure genre is being “revived”.
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