I’ve had a chance to talk with Luca Dalcò, main designer of the Town of Light, developed by LKA studios about the success of his first game and his plans for the future. In the article wou will find some photos of Volterra asylum’s abandoned cemetery which I took myself several years ago. The original…
This week I played a whole bunch of stuff that I’m still chugging through. So, to change things up a bit, in this issue I’m gonna showcase a game I didn’t like and two I can heavily recommend if you’re in the right mindset. STRAIMIUM IMMORTALY A shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler? Gesundheit! Straimium is one of…
Apparently, much has been said about the death of adventure games, so much so that it’s become a stereotype. In my teenage years, adventure games were my favourite genre. While I did play many other games, every time I knew about the release of an adventure game, I would make sure to track it down…
The winter sale on Steam is finally over! Phew! So, we go back with our regularly scheduled programming. I’ll confess to not having bought many games during that last sale, but I have such a backlog to still get through that I didn’t really feel the need to add fuel to the fire. So, without…
No one was paying attention to the end of the decade that fateful 31st of December 1999. Hey, we had more important things on our hands. It was the end of the millennium! Perhaps, people were busy sending heaps of sms to their friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…
The dead end in adventure games is indeed something that is hard to explain, if one hasn’t experienced it first hand before. Saving and reloading is one of those abilities one would wish to actually use in real life. All problems would fade away: forgetting to pay the rent, dying in a car accident while…
The first time I saw Hypnospace Outlaw, it felt like being hit by a shockwave: had someone really made the game I didn’t know I wanted all these years? I’ll explain, but first we have to go back. To the past. While it is rather obvious from a glance that I’m not writing about the…
Here we go with the first week of our beloved Steam’s winter sale! Winter is the perfect time to play some visual novels, right? Not to mention a bit of meditation after a big Christmas lunch. Read on while I explain to you what I’ve been playing between a cup of tea and a Pepparkakor.…
Realms of the Haunting. Forged in the Gremlin Interactive studio, protected by a clunky interface, at the center of chaos lies a potentially interesting adventure game. The focus for all realms of existence is the balancing force between good and evil, Dosbox and Windows. A focal point for all energies, and the one element that…
On the blog, I have mentioned how, in the nineties, several novelists got involved in the development of videogames, but that was not all. Several popular musician got in the business at well, at first just for the dreaded “multimedia product” of the mid 90s, when everyone was jumping at the possibility of making a…