The word legend is used quite a bit these days but we’re sure most people will agree that this week’s guest is an absolute legend. He is of course Jon Ingold, CEO and co-founder of Inkle Studios and developer of games such as this podcast’s game of the year 2019, Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and Pendragon. Now he has turned his talents to writing not one but two novelisations of Heaven’s Vault so Seoirse and Tomas were only to happy to chat to Jon about the game and the books as well the process of adapting this award winning game as well as everything you could ever want to know about the game and much more! Link to buy the books and game is below so please enjoy!

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The “steaks” are high in this episode as Johanna Wunderlich of Insanto Studios joins Seoirse to talk about her studios new “udderly amoosing” new game on Kickstarter, A Trail of Ooze. She talks about how she met her team, what to expect in the game and kickstarter and hse also has some advice for anyone who is thinking about doing a Kickstarter as well and how not to “butcher” it (Ok that’s enough cow jokes for now). All that and much more!

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On this review episode Laura tells us all about her Growbot, Seoirse tells a Juggler’s Tale, Tomas reviews new sci-fi detective game Lacuna and then Seoirse and Laura see how many times they need to review timeloop adventure Twleve Minutes before they get it right. Plus all the latest news and a preview of new Return of the Obra Dinn inspired The Case of the Golden Idol.

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This month Seoirse is joined by Jos, Lead writer and designer of the Hit indie game Lake. He talks to Seoirse all about the game including how the studio joined together with the director Dylan Barrett, what the game was originally versus what it eventually became and he gives some intriguing insight into what may be in store in future for Lake. All that and much more!

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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.

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On 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!

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William 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!

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This 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!

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This 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!

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In 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!

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In this first bonus interview, Laura speaks to Xalavier Nelson Jr all about his charming game An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs.

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Dave 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!

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Jack 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!

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This 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.

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In 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!

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This 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!

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In 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?

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