Much of the ink spilled about The Book of Unwritten Tales so far has been about its on-again/off-again odyssey towards an English-language release. With deadlines being passed unfulfilled, publishers going bankrupt, and just general pandemonium wherever this game was concerned (or maybe it only felt like that), the fantasy adventure that was so highly acclaimed […]
Before the first person shooter there was the second person thinker. So proclaims the front cover of Jason Scott’s film documentary, Get Lamp, and it’s an apt tagline for the thoughtful exploration of text adventures contained within. Over the course of two years, Scott interviewed a mix of interactive fiction “old-timers,” modern IF authors, and […]
Was July officially recognized as “Hidden Object Adventure Month” and we just didn’t get the memo? Sweet criminy there were a lot of them! So many, in fact, that you’ll need a Table of Contents just to keep track of them all. And since you’ve got more than enough reading ahead of you already, let’s […]
This month you can delve into a load of classic adventures within one game, take a role in a traditional horror story or investigate a more modern sort of terror. For those preferring less conventional player characters, you can become a helpful crow, a crack-addled lunatic or a creature that is half-man/half-mosquito. If escape scenarios […]
I won't lie to you. The first thing I did, as soon as I had Kurt Kalata's The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures in my hands, was to thumb through the massive tome to find the pages dedicated to the Gabriel Knight trilogy, which to me represents the apex of the genre. And I must […]
This month you can begin a secret mission in Victorian-era Algiers, face a dark force on a storm-swept mountain, or confront the simple horror that is joining a new school. If tracking is more your thing, you can hunt down terrorist bombs and monstrous minions of a vampire, or seek out that fantastical hybrid, the […]
It’s been a year since Puzzle Agent’s Nelson Tethers first arrived in Scoggins, Minnesota to investigate a mysterious explosion at the town’s eraser factory, and the Hidden People inside our heads are getting restless. (Admit it: You hear the whispers, don’t you?) The secrets still concealed beneath a blanket of winter snow will finally be […]
