Adventure Games Podcast

Seoirse, 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. Adventure Games Podcast Official Site Twitch Streams Laura Cress Twitch If you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podcast. You...

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?.

After 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...

In 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!

On this month’s episode Seoirse, Laura and Tomas discuss Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision and what it could mean for Sierra’s IP. Speaking of Sierra Seoirse reviews the classic Laura Bow mystery The Colonel’s Bequest and reveals how he thinks the game holds up 30 years later, Tomas barely survived his trip to creepy Saint Kotar and tells us whether it was worth the trip and Laura reviews new...

If 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...

At the Big Adventure Event organised by Hitcents from January 20 to 24 2022 there will be over 100 demos to try out with developer livestreams, Q & A’s and plenty more. The Adventure Games Podcast is also participating. We will (hopefully) be doing some live interviews and we are also hoping to do our first ever live Roundtable discussion with multiple developers at the same time. Interviews w...

2021 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...

In 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.

We have had some pretty high profile guests on this podcast over the years but it’s difficult to top our next guest, music composer Robert Holmes, best known for doing the music on the Gabriel Knight trilogy, Grey Matter, Moebius Uprising and being a member of the rock band The Scarlet Furies. In this interview he talks about his inspirations for becoming a music composer, how he joined Sierra, hi...

On this month’s episode Seoirse speaks with the lovely people from Red Stage entertainment about their upcoming game Skabma: Snowfall. We find out more about why they decided to tell this as a game, how we will learn more about Sámi culture through its gameplay and they tell us more about Sámi culture itself! Also their publisher tells us how they got together with Red Stage Entertainment and what...

Reviews of Happy Game, Bloodshore and Gamedec

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 Se...

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...

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 Twelve 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. Kickstarter Behind the Bey...

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! Lake Official Site Lake: Wel...

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. Blacksad: Under The Skin Official Site Lake Steam...

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! - Warp F...

In the latest episode Laura looks to the stars in Astrologaster, Tomas tries to cure a curse in the FMV Night Book, Laura is also checking out London in Last Stop and both Tomas and Seoirse journey deep into the depths of Wadjet Eye's new game Strangeland. There's also demo reviews and the team answer your Discord questions including - which three game characters would you take a road trip with?

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...

In the latest review episode Laura goes metal detecting in The Magnificent Trufflepigs, Tomas discovers The Corruption Within and Seoirse checks out timeloop game The Forgotten City, which started life as a Skyrim mod. There's also talk about the upcoming Steam Deck and new details about Ken Williams' new game.

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 which is now on Kickstarter . 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...

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...

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 Robert...

In this first bonus interview, Laura speaks to Xalavier Nelson Jr all about his charming game An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. Airport For Aliens currently Run by Dogs Steam Page Twitch Streams Laura Cress Twitch Tomas Becks Twitch 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 Spotify and all oth...