The fourth AGS One Room One Week contest has finished its week of development. The games, ten in total, are now available for download here. If you are a member of the AGS forums you can vote on the games as soon as voting starts (in the next few days). Voting will be announced here […]
Part three of the Twelve Interviews series focuses on the subject of episodic games. The interviewee of this installment is Francisco “Grundislav” Gonzalez, creator of the extremely popular freeware adventure series, Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator. The first five games in the series have met considerable praise and adoration. You can download them from Francisco’s site […]
The following is the second of the Twelve Interviews series. This was originally published August 2nd, 2005. The third interview (and first new interview for almost a year) will be coming along shortly. This one is, again, very specific to the amateur adventure scene. We focus our discussion on the common mistakes that amateur adventure […]
Listen up, game companies: I am an old man gamer. “But Vince,” you might interject, “aren’t you only 24?” “Yes, Cheryl,” I might answer, “Yes I am.” And it would be true… as long as your name is Cheryl. So what qualifies me as “old?” (We’ll discuss what qualifies me as “man” in another post… […]
I know I’m talking a lot about the Wii lately. But can you blame me. If people would wait six hours in line just to play the thing for 5 to 15 minutes, it must be interesting. Seriously… The camera is in fast motion and it still takes more than two minutes to walk from […]
Oh man, did you see that Nintendo E3 conference? They totally stole that motion-sensor controller idea from Sony! Man, Sony must be pissed!
Now that I’ve finally gotten around to introducing both of the current games, I wanted to point out one fun bit of news. Both Anna and Spooks are featured on the cover CD included with the latest issue of Czech gaming rag “Level Magazine” along with a number of other freeware games. So, if you […]
Spooks was originally released on Valentine’s Day this year as the second game from xii games. The game was designed and written entirely by Erin “The Ivy” Robinson, but she had no knowledge of coding to turn her idea into a reality. I saw the promise of a gem of a game in the art […]
As an active member of the AGS community, I wanted to create something that could help share knowledge among the many people who, like me, are game making hobbyists. So I decided to conduct interviews with people who would have some experience or knowledge to share with the community. I am going to republish the […]
So, I’ve been sick as a dog with ebola for the last several days. I apparently caught some kind of disease which feeds upon awesome. And since I am such a treasure trove of awesome, the disease feasted like a king and grew and grew until it had become less of a disease and more […]
