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- interview Posted by Peter Rootham-Smith, Philip Jong.
Adam Marciniuk, Karolina Szablewska-OlejarzAidem Media (or AideMMedia) is a media development company in Poland and a developer of casual and adventure games for the computer and mobile platforms. City of Secrets (for which a sequel, tentatively titled City of Secrets 2, is currently in production) is the first adventure game from the developer released for the Apple iOS. The game has also been since released for the PC. It is a game in… |
- review Posted by Jenny Rouse.
Jurassic Park: The GameSteven Spielberg's 1993 science fiction action adventure film Jurassic Park was undeniably a box office juggernaut, achieving both commercial and critical acclaims. The film spawned a new movie franchise, with a second and third film subsequently released in 1997 and 2001 and a fourth film purported to be in the making. The cultural legacy of this movie franchise was also undeniable—it was… |
- review Posted by Mervyn Graham.
Forever WorldsReleased in 2004, Forever Worlds (also known as Forever Worlds: Enter the Unknown) was a largely forgetful game from the obscure and little-known developer Hexagon Entertainment. Created by Courtland Shakespeare, the game was meant to be yet another attempt to regurgitate Shakespeare's own inimitable style of adventure games which he practiced since 1995. It was back then that Shakespeare, under… |
- review Posted by Matt Barton.
Rhem 2: The CaveRhem 2: The Cave is a game created by Knut Müller, a German artist, musician, and game designer. Like the other games in the Rhem series, Rhem 2: The Cave is set in the mysterious industrial world of Rhem. Resembling a giant, abandoned factory, this world is full of locked doors, secret passages, puzzles, trains and trams, and a seemingly endless supply of baffling puzzles. Of most interest to… |
- review Posted by Jenny Rouse.
The Next Big ThingIn 1997, Madrid based game development company Pendulo Studios released an adventure game called Hollywood Monsters—about a duo of reporters attending Hollywood's annual Monster Ball, a gathering of Universal Monsters from the golden age of cinema. Featuring Monkey Island style puzzle solving and quirky humor, the game was never released outside of Spain. With the subsequent success of the… |
Past Favorites
- feature Posted by Mark Newheiser.
Adventure game puzzles: unlocking the secrets of puzzle designFor a lot of games, you can figure out most of what you need to know about them from simply looking at an in-game screenshot or watching a gameplay trailer. With a quick glance at the head-up display and the quality of the graphics, you can get a good sense of what kind of monster killing mayhem you will be engaging in and what kind of experience you will likely get from playing the game.… |
- feature Posted by Marshall Ratliff, Philip Jong.
The rise and fall of Full Throttle: a conversation with Bill TillerPlaying Full Throttle is like tasting a rich bowl of roadhouse chili filled to the rim with biker gangs, chick mechanics (covered in engine grease too), and truckers with badass tattoos. An action packed, comical (albeit short), animated graphical adventure set in the backdrop of an apocalyptic future, Full Throttle touches on the subculture of motorcycle gangs and their steel horses. It is also… |
- interview Posted by Philip Jong.
Roberta WilliamsNo adventure game designer had ever achieved the level of success as Roberta Heuer Williams (Roberta Williams) had. Born in 1953, she and her husband Ken Williams co-founded On-Line Systems, which later became Sierra On-Line, when she was only 26. Mystery House, which she wrote in 1979, was the first graphic adventure game ever created for the PC. Her portfolio of games, spanning over nearly 20… |
Random Picks
- review Posted by David Tanguay.
Enchanter retroEnchanter is the first game of a new spin-off from the Zork series. Both series takes place within the Zork universe, but the former differs from the latter by the addition of a new device—magic spells. In addition to getting items and using them with others in the game, you find and use magic spells to help you on your quest. The quest in Enchanter also differs from that in Zork. This is no… |
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