This is the vault for gaming design, titles released in the past that are still relevant today for design or plot choices.
Hello, my name is Damien. Don’t ask me about Loom cause I have never played it. During that wonderful period that was the 90s, it was the one classic Lucasarts adventure games that no one talked about nor had a copy laying around to play. Monkey Island was everywhere and so Day of the Tentacle.…
Tie-in games based on movies have always been a pet peeve of mine. Especially because they tend to be rather awful, even in those occasions when the movie they’re based on is almost a videogame in itself. How can you not love a category of games that gifted us such surreal gems as Street Fighter…
I had barely recovered from the Winter steam sale that here they go again with a new one! Well, this time I’m sticking to my guns and I won’t buy anything, or at least try to. Let’s go with the usual mix of genres and indie classics and relative unknown titles. CITIZENS OF EARTH Have…
WELCOME BACK, MY PRETTIES Welcome to part 2 of the death and rebirth of adventure games. We’ve already celebrated the funeral so, now, we’re going to see how adventure gaming slowly comes back to life, shambling et al. We will focus on 2001-2009, the period when things will start to be set in stone for…
IF I WAS A GAMER… BUT THEN AGAIN, NO In my teen years adventure games were my favourite genre for two critical reasons: they were genuinely the funniest out of them all and the only games where characters and story always came first. In most other genres story was, most of the time, an afterthought.…
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! You were probably busy sending heaps of sms to your friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…
A dead end can never be a one way street. You can always turn around and take another road. Unless you’re playing King’s Quest. Saving and reloading. Bet you wish you could do it in real life, huh? Forgot to pay the rent, died in a car accident while speeding or failed a job…
Forged in Gremlin Interactive studio and protected by a clunky interface, there lies an interesting adventure game. The center for all realms of existence, it is the balancing force between good and evil, Dosbox and Windows. A focal point for all energies, and the one element that has kept the consuming fury of Damien at…
Throw me tomorrow, now that I really have a large medkit… We’ve seen how in the nineties various novelists got involved in the development of videogames. That’s not all, many popular musicians got in the business of videogames as well. Looking back now, we really missed the boat: today Soulja Boy is developing a…
Why go 3D when you can go 4D? The first game I’ve ever reviewed in my life, way back in 1996 when I was 12, was actually 4D Sports Boxing. Or at least I thought that’s what it was called, even though supposedly the official name is just “4D Boxing”. I was downright ecstatic about…
