There may be a few animal detective games coming out but only one features a talking giraffe with a monocle. Still not sold? Well the developer of Lord Winklebottom Investigates joins Seoirse to talk all about this game including how she came up with the game by drawing the characters, what other animals we can expect in this game and a lot more besides. Lord Winklebottom Investigates Official Site Adventure Games Podcast Official Site Twitch Streams Laura Cress Twitch If you would like to stay ...
Jul 29, 2022•1 sec•Season 4Ep. 144
This month Ruben from Aruma Studios joins Seoirse to talk about his mystery game Intruder in Antiquonia. He talks about why he decided to set this game in a small Galician town in the north of Spain, how working with professional writers benefited the game, how he created his own engine to create the game and how he was able to work with a local Galician musician to create authentic Galician music for the game. All that and much more! Intruder in Antiquonia Official Site Intruder in Antiquonia S...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 143
In this review episode of the AGP, Laura has too many games to review! She looks at Card Shark, Voodoo Detective and The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Edition, whilst Seoirse checks out the FMV The Bucker and Martha Is Dead. Meanwhile Tomas has been reading the Heaven's Vault books! Plus the team reviews the latest Steam Next Fest demos including Old Skies and Near Mage. News Blade Runner Enhanced edition disappoints Demos Old Skies Near Mage Arctic Awakening Unknown Number End of Lines We Stay B...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Season 4Ep. 142
“Tell me about voodoo” may be a classic line for adventure game fans and in this episode the two Erics from Short Sleeve Studios do just that as they talk about their new game Voodoo Detective. They talk about how they both got involved with the game, how they came up with the idea for the story and just how they managed to work with amazing talent for voice actors and of course, Peter McConnell, fabulous composer of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Psychonauts. All that and much more! Short Sle...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 4Ep. 141
In this review edition of the AGP, Laura sets out to find Who Pressed Mute On Uncle Marcus? (the latest FMV game by Wales Interactive, as well as trying out more traditional point and click adventure game Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit. Seoirse reviews Sámi action adventure game Skamba Snowfall and Tomas takes a look back at Tellatale’s The Walking Dead. Plus news about a Simon the Sorcerer prequel. News Simon the Scorcer Origins announced Ron Gilbert fights back! Stray launches this summer...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 4Ep. 140
In this episode Seoirse speaks Tom from Radio Silence Studios all about his upcoming Broken Sword inspired game, The Adventures of Bryan Scott. Tom speaks about how this game first came to be, how he came up[ with a conspiracy mystery that hasn’t been used much in other stories and that is not that well known and of course he reveals how he managed to work with the voice actor for George Stobbart in German, Rolf Saxon (George Stobbart in English) and Hazel Ellerby (Nico Collard in Broken Sword 1...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 4Ep. 139
This month Laura goes searching for gold in Oregon in The Lost Oregon City Gold and Seoirse goes chasing Static in uh, Chasing Static. Meanwhile Tomas tries to solve the most difficult puzzle of his life: trying to get his laptop to work! Before all that the trio discuss the new Monkey Island and some new games adventure games announced. News Return to Monkey Island Screenshots https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/ron-gilbert-dave-grossman-return-to-monkey-island https://arstechnica.com/gam...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 138
On this episode Seoirse speaks with Anna Antinova, one half of the 2 for 2 team all about their new game Kapia. She talks about they started working on the game, what challenges they faced and how they overcame them, how they managed to get the game on GOG and she shares some interesting anecodotes about the game’s development. All that and much more! Watch this interview on Youtube Kapia Official Site Kapia Steam Page Kapia GOG Page Adventure Games Podcast Official Site Twitch Streams Laura Cre...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 137
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 can subscribe and listen to this podcast on Itune s and Spotify and all other major Podcast Platform...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 28 min
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?.
Apr 02, 2022
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 of revolution and he goes behind the scnes on all the games Revolution made until 2015. Tony talks t...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Season 4Ep. 134
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!
Feb 28, 2022•Season 4Ep. 134
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 mystery game from Pendulo Studios, Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo and she reveals the biggest mystery of t...
Feb 01, 2022•Season 3Ep. 133
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 game, what the game is and he talks about his plans for the game in future. So join us for this fasc...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 132
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 will be between January 20th and 24th Roundtable will be Saturday January 22nd 8pm GMT. Check out the...
Jan 14, 2022•6 min
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 detective games to time-loop adventure games to fun and hilarious comedy adventure games there was ...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 132
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.
Jan 03, 2022
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, his work process when composing the music and he also talks about his Kickstarter which is running unt...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 particularly attracted them to this game and they also give some great advice to game devs how to s...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 130
Reviews of Happy Game, Bloodshore and Gamedec
Dec 02, 2021•Season 3Ep. 129
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 Seoirse and Tomas were only to happy to chat to Jon about the game and the books as well the process o...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 128
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 cow jokes for now). All that and much more! A Trail Of Ooze Kickstarter A Trail Of Ooze Steam Page ...
Nov 12, 20210•Season 3Ep. 127
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 Beyond Kickstarter Video Broken Sword 25th Anniversary AMA with Charles Cecil | Revolution Software Dem...
Nov 05, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 126
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: Welcome to Providence Oaks (LudoNarraCon 2021) Bulding the World of Lake (LudoNarraCon 2021) The Charac...
Oct 22, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 124
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 Page Adventure Games Podcast Official Site Twitch Streams Laura Cress Twitch If you would like to st...
Oct 01, 2021•29 min
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 Frontier Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7E_aq_GxUw - Warp Frontier Presskit: https://drive...
Sep 25, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 122
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?
Aug 27, 2021
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 making this game more accessible for both experienced and new adventure game players alike. All that...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 121
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.
Jul 28, 2021
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 around the world. He also has some fantastic advice about game development for other developers and...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 119
