The Genesis Temple Podcast Episode 5 In the fifth episode of the Genesis Temple podcast, we change things up a bit. I sit with fellow gaming journalist Jack Yarwood to share our respective experience in researching obsure stories of past gaming titles. He goes on over some interesting details that were omitted from his article…
The Genesis Temple Podcast Episode 4 In this fourth episode of the Genesis Temple podcast I welcome James Patton and Daniel Adams for an evening talk. They grew up with different experiences in videogaming, but found themselves sharing common goals in development. They recently released their first adventure/visual novel, Silicon Dreams, that I reviewed positively…
Reviewing is an easy task, or at least, so it might seem from an external point of view. Just slap together some nice-sounding adjectives, a couple of hyperbole, some light sprinkling of sarcasm and voilà: done. Personally, since I consider that the end product should be useful for the reader, I find it one of…
In this episode of the Genesis Temple’s podcast I sit down for an evening talk with Daniele Giardini (aka Demigiant). He grew up as a comic book artist and only subsequently got into game development, he’s the writer of adventure game Still There and also worked as an artist on visual novel/football sim Football Drama.…
In this second episode of the Genesis Temple podcast – yes this is apparently going to become a thing – I sit down with Saverio Caporusso of Troglobyte Games, to discuss how he first got into videogames at a young age, along with his role of game designer for Hyperparasite and future cybersamurai action romp…
For the first episode of the Genesis Temple’s podcast I got in touch with Mark Yohalem, of Studio Wormwood. I was impressed with Strangeland and the staggering amount of thought-provoking information provided in the developer’s commentary. We gscheduled a chat, then just went from there, touching upon several topics like Loom, Sanitarium, puzzle design in…
Interview with Larry Ahern – Part 1 of 2 – From The Dig to The Curse of Monkey Island In December of 2020 I had the opportunity to talk with Larry Ahern via Skype, we made time for a lengthy conversation on his overall career, from his first interview at Skywalker Ranch all the way…
The discussion on storytelling in videogames, especially that around its inherent value, seems to be centered around whether interactivity seems to, somehow, lessen the value of such kind of fiction. Still, as early as the mid-60s, interactive fiction emerged as one of the earliest forms of gaming, going on to enjoy great success in the…
Shadowfire still is one of 1985’s most celebrated home computer titles, produced by young newcomers British developers Denton Designs (the Home of Happiness?), it also was (apparently) the first commercially released title by designer Steven Cain. He developed one of the first adventure games to feature an icon-based interface, that the player could use to…
In our current gaming discussion, questions about the value of “interactivity” seem to have taken a backseat. With Virtual Reality becoming an affordable and – mostly – reliable technology, the “headset and controllers” combination seems to be the end-all for interactive experiences. Not unlike the future imagined by writers and directors in the 80s and…