Adventure Games Podcast

First 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 t...

To continue our celebration of 30 years of Revolution, Broken Sword series producer and writer Steve Ince jojns Seoirse to discuss his experience at revolution. He talks about how he first joined the studio, his role working on Beneath a Steel Sky. He then goes into some detail into the development of Broken Sword and he also discusses his book “Writing for Video Games” . Finally he also discusses...

Back in 1994 Beneath a Steel Sky was released. This game would go on to become a beloved classic. Now 26 years later, the sequel Beyond a Steel Sky is finally upon us. It’s safe to say that this is the most eagerly anticipated adventure game of the year but does it live up to expectations? In this episode Seoirse gives a non spoiler review and reveals whether he thinks this is a welcome return to...

This week Charles Cecil, the mastermind behind classics Beneath a Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series, joins Seoirse, and after some slight fanboyism from seoirse, he then talks about how their partnership with Apple came about, his design philosophy regarding puzzles and story in video games and why it took him 26 years to make Beyond a Steel Sky. All that and much more! Revolution Official Sit...

In this first episode celebrating 30 years of Revolution, co-founder Tony Warriner and Seoirse go back in time to talk about the objectives of Revolution when it was founded, and they go behind the scenes on all their games as Tony gives some fascinating anecdotes about the making of Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky and of course, the Broken Sword series. Plus he talks about how Revoluti...

The Adventure Games Podcast is up for the Podcast Awards! We are up against some very stiff competition and much like adventure games we are punching above our weight. However, if you would like to help us, and in turn help adventure game developers who come on the show and help prove to the world that the adventure game genre is still very much alive then you can vote for the Adventure Games Podc...

This week, Seoirse, Laura and Tomas discuss Will Ferrell’s new Eurovision movie and what a Eurovision adventure game would look like. We also have time to discuss the latest adventure games including the Life is Strange prequel, a fun puzzle game, one of the weirdest games ever made and a new conspiracy thriller set in Miami. Also if you get a chance please consider voting for the Adventure Games...

Marko from Red Martyr Entertainment joins Seoirse to discuss his upcoming game Saint Kotar and the free prologue Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask, available now on Steam. He talks about the plot, gameplay, he gives an example on how the choices will have consequences in the game, which famous actors will appear in the game and he also talks about what rewards players can expect if they back the game o...

This week Armaan talks to Seoirse about his hit game Rainswept which certainly “swept” the adventure game genre when it was released way back in February 2019. Armaan talks about quitting his day job to become a full time indie developer and he talks about the game in more detail including what research he did, what were his objectives when he founded the studio and he also tells us a little about...

This week Seoirse goes fishing with the Night Fisherman and goes on a search for the Hand of Glory, Laura goes on “A Short Hike” through the woods, and then Tomas, eh, goes home. We also talk about those three games and we also have a (hopefully) final discussion based on a highly scientific Facebook poll about whether 3d works with adventure games (it does) or whether all adventure games in 3d su...

This week Vit Sisler, the lead developer of Attentat 1942 and the upcoming game Svoboda 1945 joins Seoirse to discuss his award winning games. They also discuss the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and why they focus on the civilians’ stories during this time period, how they found the right actors to portray these characters, why they included flash backs as a visual novel form and how they work...

On this week’s episode Laura reviews “Papers, Please”, the first game by Lucas Pope before he went on to make his classic game “Return of the Obra Dinn”. She also discusses the latest FMV game “Dark Nights with Poe and Munro” from the developers of “The Shapeshifting Detective”. Then Seoirse goes back in time to talk about about the second FMV game of the week in “Attentat 1942” where he has to fi...

This week Lewis Wodhouse, founder of Video Game Marketing Consultant Neon Bedlam joins Seoirse to talk about his company and how they help game developers market their games, help them set up Kickstarters, write press releases and prepare for events and everything else they do to help developers. He also gives truly wonderful advice about what to write in your game description and different ways t...

This week Captain joins Seoirse to talk about his award winning game Captain Disaster: Death Has a Million Stomping Boots which has just been released on Steam. He talks about the characters and how he got the name “Captain Disaster”, the inspirations, the type of humour he was going for, types of puzzles he hates and will definitely NOT appear in his games and how writing an adaptation of his gam...

In this bonus episode Scott Clark from the Gaming Outsider Podcast joins us once again to discuss Final Fantasy VII Remake. While this is not an adventure game it does have a strong focus on narrative and there is an Easy setting so people who don’t usually play RPGs or games with combat can still play this for the story. Scott tells us how he very nearly didn’t get the chance to play the original...

This week Seoirse, Laura and Tomas get together (virtually) to review the latest games they have played including Late Shift, Summit of the Wolf, Cloudpunk and a new game from the legendary Ron Gilbert, Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-adventure. Plus we discuss puzzles in older adventure games compared to new adventure games and we discuss how Tomas probably breaks a record for most games in a li...

In this bonus episode Chris Ainsley joins Seoirse to talk about his text adventure creator for kids and beginners Adventuron. In this interview Chris talks about how people can create their own text adventure even if they have never made one or don’t have much experience with code. He also talks about some of the games he has created using Adventuron and he discusses the Adventurejams where people...

This week, James Dearden joins Seoirse to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the release of Technobabylon, one of the most higly acclaimed adventure games of recent times. He also has some interesting anecdotes about his slightly irregular start in games development and he also finds the time to give us an update on progress of Technobabylon 2 and what we can expect from the sequel. Technobabylon...

This week Seoirse is joined once again by Tomas Becks from The Gaming Outsider and Laura Cress from Adveturegamers as we go back in time to Post Franco Spain, the dark ages and the renaissance. Then as if real life wasn't post-apocalyptic enough we review what many consider to be one of the best narrative games of all time and Laura then gives us a hands on preview of one of the most eagerly antic...

This week Gamechuck join Seoirse to discuss their unique first of a kind story-driven roleplaying adventure set in the Animal Kingdom on the verge of both industrial and social revolution. Find out why this is the first game from Croatia co-funded with the support of European Union's Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme. They delve into the gameplay mechanics and what exactly makes this game so uniqu...

Zombie aliens have taken over the world! And it’s up to an ordinary guy to save the world. Peter from Xorom GMBH joins Seoirse this week to discuss how he came up with this fascinating premise and he also talks about his inspirations for the game as well as how he created his own engine for the game plus much more! Paul Pixel Official Site Paul Pixel: The Awakening Itunes Page Paul Pixel Twitter N...

This week Stave Studio join Seoirse to give top secret intel on their spy thriller, Over the Alps. Sam, Josh and Harry talk inspirations, how Jon Ingold got involved and what changed with his involvement, they discuss the story and how they were able to get the game translated into different languages. Finally they talk about what updates they include for the Steam release on March 31. Over the Al...

This week Seoirse, Tomas and Laura discuss an FMV game straight from the headlines about two people in quarantine and on lockdown to try and prevent the outbreak of a virus in London. Then they talk about a protagonist who desperately wants to be taken seriously. Then when they finish talking about Seoirse they review Nick Bounty and the Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe. Next Laura talks about a pla...

This week, former Telltale Lead designer Mark Darin joins Seoirse to discuss his time at Telltale including what it was like to work with Ron Gilbert on Tales of Monkey Island, how Jurassic Park would go on to inspire the development of The Walking Dead and how he came up with the story for the creepiest episode of The Walking Dead. He also talks alittle about how what exactly happened when Tellta...

This week, our three intrepid heroes bravely come out of self-isolation to discuss what games they would suggest playing when self-isolating. Later Tomas and Laura discuss Disco Elysium again while Seoirse becomes an assassin for a demonic, satanic cult. Laura also finds time to use nonograms to resolve a murder and Tomas and Seoirse talk clocks in a co-op adventure game which they reveal why they...