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Gearbox: The Wii U Will Get The Best-Looking Version Of Aliens: Colonial Marines You’d either click everywhere on a painting until something worked, or you’d be greeted with messages like these, done by artist Joe Alterio.
I’m a sucker for a classic point-and-click adventure game. The LucasArts adventures of the early 1990s are how I fell in love with gaming, and to this day remain the biggest influence on my taste in digital worlds. So whenever I see a new entry in the genre appear, I have to jump on it. The latest to catch my attention is The Journey Down, from Sweden-based indie dev team Skygoblin.
If you follow all-around funny guy Ron Gilbert on Twitter, you’ll have noticed that the beloved adventure game designer has been doling out sneak peeks at the playable characters that will be appearing in the game he’s making with Double Fine Productions.
Today, I got a package from Double Fine promising details on the legendary Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game. But… I can’t figure out what it is! It just looks like a jumble of cardboard pieces. Maybe this was supposed to be packaging for the USB key they forgot to send? I don’t…. understand…
When I spoke with Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen about her latest project, I had to ask about it. The Puzzle. The great cat-mustache debacle.
Adventure games have changed a lot over the past 20 years. And now, thanks largely to Tim Schafer’s super-successful $US3.4-million Kickstarter, we’re about to get a whole lot more of them.
Artist Jón Kristinsson has started a Tumblr dedicated to his beautiful illustrations of point-and-click adventure games like Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle.
Surely you all know about Tim Schafer’s incredible Double Fine kickstarter adventure, which has now raised $US2.1 million. Using the money, Schafer and fellow Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert will be making a new old-school-style adventure game.
Double Fine’s record-breaking Kickstarter adventure has, over the past few days, rekindled the perennial discussion about the entire genre of adventure games. The classic adventure has had its death announced dozens, if not hundreds, of times over the past decade or so, with at least an equal number of rebuttals.
