Adventure Games Podcast

Seoirse was joined at WASD 2023 by Narrative Designer Madi. She talks about her experience working for Spooky Doorway (Spoiler: they’re great!) and what she learned about narrative design in games from working with them. She also discusses her two thesis (thesi?) she is writing about Irish mythology in video games and using games in education. Madi Twitter WASD Official Site Adventure Games Podcas...

In this (thankfully) quiet café Seoirse spoke to musical artist and adventure game developer known for his detective games, Tim Sheinman. Tim spoke about his previous game, Riley and Rochelle and he shows Seoirse a preview build about his upcoming secret game. He also has some interesting thoughts about indie gaming and provides some very useful tips on how survive in this industry! Tim Sheinman O...

Before finishing up at WASD Seoirse was joined by the second pair of brothers he met, this time the Lightfoot Bros! The makers of The Mystery of Woolley Mountain spoke about their upcoming game, Sleepytime Village which is coming to Kickstarter very soon. They spoke about the difference in puzzles and story between the two games, the joy of creatively swearing in a game and why they enjoy working...

Every guest on this podcast is passionate about their work and this truly shows in this episode as Seoirse is joined by Mark Yohalem and James Spanos of Wormwood Studios, developers of two of the most popular adventure games of the last decade, Primordia and Strangeland. Things got slightly emotional as the guests spoke about some of the themes in the games such as dealing with grief and depressio...

Alan from Draknek joined Seoirse at WASD 2023 to talk about why he enjoys making puzzle games and the joy of seeing players complete a puzzle in one of his games. He also talks about Sokobond Express, his puzzle game about chemistry (no chemistry knowledge required) and why he believes puzzles can be played well co-operatively. Draknek Official Site Sokobond Express Official Site WASD Official Sit...

In this episode Matt Latham, from the “enemy” podcast Ask Us About Loom, joins us and he talks to us about his Murderous Muses and about the Open World Lovecraft adventure game, Dreams in the Witch House. Speaking of Lovecraft, Tomas gives us his opinion on Lovecraft Fishing game, Dredge. (Full review available from last week’s episode at the link below). Finally, Seoirse, who just returned from C...

Seoirse is joined by none other than head of Inkle Studios, Jon Ingold, to talk about their upcoming game, A Highland Song. He talks about what we can expect from the gameplay, why they decided to make this game with light platforming elements and how Scottish folk music will play a large part in the game as well as what their objectives were with the look of the game. Inkle Studios Official Site...

Seoirse joins Dave Gilbert at WASD 2023 for a playthrough of their upcoming vampire game Nighthawks from former games journalist Richard Cobbett. This build of the game was Dave’s first time playing through the game so join us as we find out more about the game and how Richard and Dave worked together. He also talks about his other upcoming game Old Skies and gives us an update on the development...

At the Reboot Develop Blue conference Seoirse joined Jörg Tittel, developer of The Last Worker, on his balcony to discuss anything and everything including why The Secret of Monkey Island got him interested in video games, how self service machines inspired him to make The Last Worker and then things got rather deep in their discussion about free will and AI in Jörg’s characteristically funny and...

This week Seoirse speaks with PF Studio as they discuss their upcoming game Chronique Des Silencieux. They talk about how the game takes some inspiration from their family history, and they discuss their other inspiration from films, books and everything else in between. They also talk about some of the gameplay mechanics and how they intend to make this game a proper detective game. This game is...

Paul Raschid, director of FMV games/interactive movies such as The Complex, Five Dates, Ten Dates and The Gallery joins Seoirse for aa coffee (but crucially not for an 11th date!) to talk about how he started making games. He also talks about and the different kinds of choices in games and how makes the choices in his games matter as well as his approach to making games. Paul also compares making...

This year at WASD Adam and JosephRiches of Robust Games spoke to Seoirse about their upcoming highly anticipated murder mystery game set on a train, Loco Motive. They talk about the game started as a Game Jam and then how it developed into a fully fledged game. They also discussed designing the first puzzle that appears in the demo and how they designed the puzzles for the full game. Finally they...

Revolution co-founder Tony Warriner joins Seoirse at Reboot Develop Blue for the podcast’s first ever episode in front of a live audience to discuss the Fall and Rise of adventure games. They discuss how Tony started playing text adventures and how he first met Charles Cecil and how they founded Revolution. They also both discuss what games inspired them when Revolution started making games as wel...

Alex from Gamechuck joined Seoirse at Reboot Develop Blue to talk about Paws of Coal, the first in the Trip: The Ark Fantastic series. He explains in detail the background of the story, the game mechanics, how your choices will have consequences in this game and possibly in future games as well and he talks about where they see the series going in future. Paws of Coal Steam Page Trip the Ark Fanta...

This month Seoirse is extremely busy on a podcast assignment in Croatia and is in no way lazily enjoying the sun instead. Therefore Laura had to step in along with Kieran to review five adventure games! They went on a Lynchian adventure with Grunnd, got lost while playing in, er, Lost in Play and then went fishing in Lovecraft Fishing game (yes you read that right) in Dredge. What could possibly g...

In this episode Seoirse speaks with Nicholas from Evil Pug Games about his upcoming game Enoch: Children of Fate. He talks about how he got started making the game and how the game got more ambitious as development went along. He also talks about marketing and financing the game and why he decided to make a game as ambitious as this. All that and much more! Evil Pug Games Official Site Enoch: Chil...

This month Jared Parisi of Indie Game International and new Adventure Game Podcast editor joins Seoirse and Tomas to review Deliver Us Mars and Season: A Letter to the Future. Meanwhile tells us where there are good stories in Monorail Stories and Seoirse talks about whether he was successful in any of his Ten Dates or if he was left a wreck in The Wreck. Games Reviewed Pentiment Official Site Ten...

Want to win a free Steam key for Grunnd? Then listen to this episode and send your answer to info@adventuregamespodcast.com by Friday 7th April 2023. Competition available worldwide. Grunnd Official Site Grunnd Steam Page Adventure Games Podcast Official Site If you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podcast. You can subscribe and listen to this podcast on Itune s and Spo...

In this episode Seoirse speaks with Antti Laakso of Atom Brain Games all about his ambitious new game Dreams in the Witch House. Based on a Lovecraft short story this an open world non linear pixel art point and click adventure game with RPG elements. If any of those things appeal to you then this is one interview you don’t want to miss! Dreams in the Witch House Steam GOG Atom Brain Games Twitter...

This month there has been so much news that we have dedicated an entire episode to the news. From new Kickstarters to new trailers to new games being announced plus there is some Adventure Game Podcast news where Seoirse has an exciting announcement! To find out what that is you will need to listen to the episode. Please enjoy! Conferences WASD Reboot Develop Blue Youtube Channel Trailers The Expa...

This month Rose makes kinda sorta debut as she and Seoirse review Pentiment, the only game Microsoft released in 2022! But first Tomas joins the team to see if Keoken Studios can deliver us The Moon. And finally, also making her debut, Amy aka SummerB, the beta tester extraordinaire who ha helped many adventure game developers with their adventure games goes down a Colossal Cave. Was this game wor...

This week Seoirse speaks with Martin from Nodbrim about his Westmark series. First they chat about Nodrim’s first game Westmark Manor followed by his upcoming game The Foretold: Westmark Legacy. He explains about the card mechanics and why he chose this game to be inspired by Lovecraft. He then talks about what we can expect from the Kickstarter and much more! Nodbrim Official Site Westmarkmark Ma...

In this very special interview Seoirse is joined by none other than the legendary Roberta Williams! Roberta was kind enough to spend 90 minutes with Seoirse as she spoke about exactly how the project started, how she got involved, why they chose VR, what challenges they faced with VR and what the future may hold for both Roberta and Ken Williams. She also spoke about some of the reception the game...

In the first review episode of the year Seoirse is not joined by Tomas or Laura but in their place steps friend of the pod and adventure game enthusiast Kieran who reviewed no less than 5 games! Kieran first reviews two of the most talked about adventure games of the year, Lucy Dreaming and The Excavation of Hobbs Barrow. He then reviews Grandma Badass who gets involved in increasingly absurd situ...

We may be one whole month into 2023 but it’s never too late to look back at the year that was as Seoirse, Tomas and Laura discuss whether in 2022 adventure games were doing their whole dead thing again (Spoiler: They weren’t) or whether this past year was full of a variety of great quality adventure games (Spoiler: It was). Whether it’s the return of old school adventure game developers, animal de...