Just a short announcement that Francisco Gonzalez will be exclusively revealing the voice cast for Rosewater on the Adventure Games Podcast! Tune in on September 8 at 8PM GMT+1 as Seoirse will be joined by Francisco and we will all find out who will appear on Rosewater. Simply click the link below, click Notify me and Subscribe so you won’t miss out!
Rosewater Voice Cast Exclusive Reveal with Francisco Gonzalez
Read MoreOn this month’s episode James Simpson from Goldfire Studios comes out of the Arctic to talk to us about his upcoming story driven exploration game Arctic Awakening. He tells Seoirse that this is a Story First game so no need to worry about survival! He also talks about how he went method and flew a plane and survived the wilderness just like the main character! He also talks about his indie studio maanged to make an open world adventure game work on a budget. All that and much more!
Read MoreOn this episode Seoirse and Tomas join up without Laura unfortunately who, now that she’s a major Youtube start will never return to this small podcast. That and she had some connection issues so we may, hopefully see her again next month. She did however record reviews for two games she’s played including creepy horror Nightmare Frames and definitely not a horror, Stray, where you play as a cute little kitty causing havoc in a cyberpunk world. Elsewhere Tomas reviews Tacoma and tells us whether he’s “shore” about Lovecraft horror The Shore. Finally Seoirse tries to catch the Intruder in Antiquonia and he tries to see if he’s up to the task of being president in Suzerain (spoiler: he isn’t). Plus they delve into the latest news including a new trailer for Return of Monkey Island with some choice worlds for some of the trolls, and a breaking news about a new Wadjet Eye game and much more!
Read MoreThere may be a few animal detective games coming out but only one features a talking giraffe with a monocle. Still not sold? Well the developer of Lord Winklebottom Investigates joins Seoirse to talk all about this game including how she came up with the game by drawing the characters, what other animals we can expect in this game and a lot more besides.
Read MoreThis month Ruben from Aruma Studios joins Seoirse to talk about his mystery game Intruder in Antiquonia. He talks about why he decided to set this game in a small Galician town in the north of Spain, how working with professional writers benefited the game, how he created his own engine to create the game and how he was able to work with a local Galician musician to create authentic Galician music for the game. All that and much more!
Read MoreIn this review episode of the AGP, Laura has too many games to review! She looks at Card Shark, Voodoo Detective and The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Edition, whilst Seoirse checks out the FMV The Bucker and Martha Is Dead. Meanwhile Tomas has been reading the Heaven's Vault books! Plus the team reviews the latest Steam Next Fest demos including Old Skies and Near Mage.
Read More“Tell me about voodoo” may be a classic line for adventure game fans and in this episode the two Erics from Short Sleeve Studios do just that as they talk about their new game Voodoo Detective. They talk about how they both got involved with the game, how they came up with the idea for the story and just how they managed to work with amazing talent for voice actors and of course, Peter McConnell, fabulous composer of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Psychonauts. All that and much more!
Read MoreIn this review edition of the AGP, Laura sets out to find Who Pressed Mute On Uncle Marcus? (the latest FMV game by Wales Interactive, as well as trying out more traditional point and click adventure game Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit. Seoirse reviews Sámi action adventure game Skamba Snowfall and Tomas takes a look back at Tellatale’s The Walking Dead. Plus news about a Simon the Sorcerer prequel.
Read MoreIn this episode Seoirse speaks Tom from Radio Silence Studios all about his upcoming Broken Sword inspired game, The Adventures of Bryan Scott. Tom speaks about how this game first came to be, how he came up[ with a conspiracy mystery that hasn’t been used much in other stories and that is not that well known and of course he reveals how he managed to work with the voice actor for George Stobbart in German, Rolf Saxon (George Stobbart in English) and Hazel ellerby (Nico Collard in Broken Sword 1). He also talks about his planned kickstarter and what lays ahead for him and other game ideas in future. All that and much more!
Read MoreThis month Laura goes searching for gold in Oregon in The Lost Oregon City Gold and Seoirse goes chasing Static in uh, Chasing Static. Meanwhile Tomas tries to solve the most difficult puzzle of his life: trying to get his laptop to work! Before all that the trio discuss the new Monkey Island and some new games adventure games announced
Read MoreOn this episode Seoirse speaks with Anna Antinova, one half of the 2 for 2 team all about their new game Kapia. She talks about they started working on the game, what challenges they faced and how they overcame them, how they managed to get the game on GOG and she shares some interesting anecodotes about the game’s development. All that and much more!
Read MoreSeoirse, Tomas and Laura discuss the announcement of the new Monkey Island game. Plus they talk about their memories playing Monkey Island, what they would like to see in the new game and discuss what makes Monkey Island such a beloved franchise.
Read MoreWe're back! With plenty of news (and reviews)! As well as mentioning Adventure X returning plus Ken and Roberta Williams' new game and release dates from the likes of Crowns and Pawns and Chinatown Detective Agency, the team also fits some reviews in too! Seoirse reviews two games - The Whisperer and Dexter Stardust : Adventures in Outer Space, whilst Laura takes a look at dark David Lynch-esque reverse detective game Who's Lila?.
Read MoreAfter an unexpected hiatus we are back and this week Tony Warriner joins again for the second on this podcast. Tony is of course the co-founder of Revolution Studios and one of the lead developers of the Broken sword series and Beneath A Steel Sky and he is writing a book tentatively called “from 8bits to Revolution”. This book will be about how he started in the video game industry, the founding of revolution and he goes behind the scnes on all the games Revolution made until 2015. Tony talks to Seoirse about how he hopes the book will help other game devs, how this very podcast gave him the idea to write the book(!), and he reveals what is actually like to work with some publishers. He also gives some intriguing insights into what the future may have in store for him. All that and murch more!
Read MoreIn replace of this month's review episode, Laura interviews Mikael Nyqvist the developer behind the Carol Reed Mysteries series, on the latest game in the series "Amos Green's Final Repose" and with Dennis Ploeger, the co-developer of Ego Venture, a custom framework for first-person point and click adventures, which the Carol Reed games now run on!
Read MoreIf you’re listening to this podcast chances are you’re a fan of adventure and Choose your Own adventure games. But what if there was CYOA driven by AI that was continuously evolving? This episode’s guest, Liam Lawless, is making one such game. Indeed he is currently developing a collaborative, AI-written text adventure called UnendingStory. In this interview Liam talks about why he is making this game, what the game is and he talks about his plans for the game in future. So join us for this fascinating interview about AI and what the future may hold for narrative and interactive games!
Read More2021 might have been a difficult and challenging year for us all. Thanks to Covid our lives have changed dramatically over the last couple of years. Thankfully one thing has remained the same: a huge number of fantastic adventure games were released last year! And so Seoirse, Tomas and Laura look on a truly memorable year and reveal their top 5 favourite adventure games of the year. From cyberpunk detective games to time-loop adventure games to fun and hilarious comedy adventure games there was certainly a huge variety of adventure games to choose from. Plus we look ahead to what adventure games we’re looking forward to in 2022. So join us as we reveal which of the games released in 2021 was “the game of the century in the same league as Monkey Island, Broken Sword and Gabriel Knight”. Which game is it? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Read MoreIn this jam-packed December edition of the AGP, Seoirse gets in the wintery spirit with Alexey's Winter: Night Adventure as well as looking at Siberia 3, Laura reviews card-based escape room adventure game Inscryption as well as the newest Life Is Strange game, True Colours and Tomas gives his take on Inspector Waffles and Warp Frontier. Plus news on the Game Awards and a new Backbone game.
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