Adventure Games Podcast

Champion boxer turned Cognitive-Therapist Hazel Gale talks to Seoirse about suffering burnout during her boxing career and why she went from boxing to cognitive therapy. She also explains what cognitive therapy is and how that can help people and how her text game Betwixt compliments her book and how she hopes the game can help people raise awareness about their mental health. Finally she gives gr...

This week, Tomas enjoys short point and click adventure game Enypnion and what he’s calling one of his games of the year so far, The Last Show of Mr Chardish. Meanwhile Seoirse insists he isn’t cheating or assassinating people in interactive point and click adventure Bleeding Moons, but he does go on Five Dates along with Laura - or at least they play the new FMV interactive rom-com out under that...

This week Laura Cress talks to Mike Stemmle as he talks about his experiences developing Sam and Max: Hit The Road, Escape From Monkey Island and he also reveals some intriguing details about the upcoming Sam and Max VR game coming very soon. Twitch Streams Adventure Games Podcast Twitch Laura Cress Twitch Tomas Becks Twitch If you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podca...

This week our intrepid trio, Seoirse, Laura and Tomas, go looking for beer in Dude Where’s my Beer and love in all the wrong places in Leisure Suit Larry Wet Dreams Dry Twice and they become chickens, literally in this case, as they review Chicken Police. They also discuss the latest news with Sam and Max Remastered, Stasis: Bone Totem, Suzerain and the annual Wordplay conference which is virtual...

This week, Seoirse gets counselling from Matthew Seiji Burns, the writer, director and music composer of the AI Counselling game Eliza. In this interview Matthew talks about what it was like working on two of the biggest selling gaming series of all time, why he decided to go indie and he talks all about his latest game Eliza including how close we are to an AI counsellor and why this is one couns...

On this week’s episode Seoirse, Laura and Tomas review a collection of short games, they investigate demonic murders and they review a Lucasarts classic: but is it really as good as good as people remember? All that and much more! 10mg Steam Page Itch.io The Last Show of Mr Chardish Steam Page Lucifer Within Us Official Site Full Throttle: Remastered Official Site If you would like to stay up to d...

This week Salix Games founder and Bafta Breakthrough winner Jessica Saunders joins the pod to talk about her game “Dance of Death: Du Lac and Fey”, the game where two Arthurian legends team up to stop Jack the Ripper. She discusses myths, legends, why she wanted to tell a version of the Jack the Ripper story through one of the victim’s eyes and how she managed to get a team of AAA developers and a...

This week Seoirse, Tomas and laura go through their favourite demos from the Steam Summer Festival 2020. Afterwards they also review Welcome to Elk, Lightless and Inkle Studio’s latest release, Pendragon. Welcome to Elk Official Site Lightless Steam Page Pendragon Official Site Adventure Games Podcast Official Site Laura Cress Twitch If you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to...

This week Andrew Schneider sits down with Seoirse to discuss his text adventure where you get to play as Robin Hood in Nocked. In this interview he talks about the different features in his game, why he wanted to make a game about Robin Hood, how he managed to make a game with more than 1 million words (!) without going crazy, and what differences there are between the mobile and desktop version o...

This week Seoirse, Tomas and Laura journey to Medieval France to search for the holy grail (and put booze in it naturally) in Lancelot’s hangover. Meanwhile Tomas talks about his “big hammer” while playing Kingdom of Amalur and finally, Laura goes both Beneath and Beyond a Steel Sky and gives us her thoughts on those games. Steam Game Festival Autumn Festival Lancelot's Hangover Official Website S...

This week Jean-Baptiste joins Seoirse to talk about the making of his game Lancelot’s Hangover. In this interview Jean Baptiste talks about how he got started making games, some of the difficulties he had getting his game on Steam due to the size of Lancelot’s “package”, what puzzles we can expect and why he loves the humour of Monty Python and how he is trying to incorporate that type of humour i...

We’re a little late this week but we still have a lot to discuss including Myst in VR! A new Lesiure Suit Larry game! And first footage from Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition. Plus we review the latest games we have been playing including Epic Games exclusive 3 out of Ten, The Shapeshifting Detective and Tell Me Why. Myst VR Lesiure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry Twice Trailer Blade Runner: Enhance...

This week Seoirse “interrogates” developers Critique Gaming about their latest game “Interrogation: You will be deceived”. Thankfully no torture or violence was necessary as the developers were willing to spill the beans about their game including their inspirations, what their objectives are and how they managed to achieve their unique visual look for the game. Critique Gaming Official Site Inter...

This week Laura hosts for the first time and just about manages to keep Seoirse and Tomas in order and on track. Seoirse reviews the Netflix Games Documentary High Score which features, albeit briefly, a certain Robert and Ken Williams. Then Tomas and Laura discuss the best demos they played at Gamescom and finally Laura reviews Roki, a game set in Scandinavian folklore which could possibly be one...

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This week Jason Godbey joins Seoirse to talk about his two games :”The Search” and “Discolored”. In the interview he discusses how he first got involved in the gaming industry, why he decided to make his games so different to each other and how he wanted to tell a story a different way in Discolored without any dialogue or voice acting. He also discusses how he he got his game to be on Apple Arcad...

This week Seoirse realises his lifelong dream of being a standup comedian in Clam Man: Open Mic with predictable results. Tomas and Laura also join Seoirse this week to review the latest adventure games they’ve been playing including the second game from the developers of Gone Home. All that and much more! Nairi: Rising Tide Prologue Steam Page Stilstand Steam Page Superliminal Official Site Clam...

The lead developer of Deliver us the Moon joins Seoirse to talk moon landings, how his game evolved from its creation, how they came up with the story, what research they did and much more! Deliver us the Moon Official Site Steam 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...

The Last of Us Part 2 is one of of the highest selling games of all time and with the story getting so much attention and causing so much controversy we thought we would record a two part spoiler episode. In these two episodes we talk about all the twists, the revelations and the themes of the game and much much more more. *Also since this is a spoiler episode it should go without saying that we w...

The Last of Us Part 2 is one of of the highest selling games of all time and with the story getting so much attention and causing so much controversy we thought we would record a two part spoiler episode. In these two episodes we talk about all the twists, the revelations and the themes of the game and much much more more. *Also since this is a spoiler episode it should go without saying that we w...

In this week’s shorter than usual episode Seoirse is joined by...himself as Tomas and Laura leave him to fend for himself to review some free prologues, a free visual novel, a sitcom set in the worst game development studio of all time and a post-apocalyptic sci-fi where the robots have taken over the world but some of the robots are becoming more human like and take it upon themselves to discover...

This week Martin from Team Clam joins Seoirse to talk our comedy adventure game of 2019, Clam Man! He talks about the aftermath of Clam Man, what his inspirations for Clam Man 2 were, why he changed the look of Clam Man 2 and what benefits and challenges he is facing now that he is working solo. All that and much more! Clam Man Twitter Clam Man: Prologue Steam Clam Man 2: Headliner Steam Clam Man...

This week Seoirse, Tomas and Laura talk travel to the Croatian mountains, go on a treasure hunt, entor a dream to try and save a person who is suffering from severe depression, go back to the wild west and travel in a bleak, desolate, post-apocalytic setting. But enough about 2020! They also review The last of Us Part 2 and discuss if this game really is the best game of the year. Sanit Kotar Offi...

On this week’s episode Filipe F. Thomas developer of Into a Dream joins Seoirse to discuss his new game. They also talk about the topics of the game, what can be done to discuss mental health more in the gaming community, what Filipe hopes to achieve with this game, how he managed to convince professional voice actors to volunteer to play characters in his game and much more! Into A Dream Indigogo...

On this final interview celebrating 30 years of Revolution, Rolf Saxon joins Seoirse to talk about his role as George Stobbart. In this interview, Rolf talks about how he got the role to begin with, what it's liek working with the team at Revolution, what appealed to him about the script, why he thinks Broken Sword has become so successful plus much more! If you enjoyed this episode and would like...