Talking with game designers of the present and of the past
After its first steps in a difficult industry plagued by piracy, as observed in the second part of the retrospective, Trecision managed to release two titles internationally, Nightlong and The Watchmaker, but crisis seemed to strike the studio between 1999 and 2000. With the overall idea of making a fully 3D adventure taking a long time to…
The Genesis Temple Podcast – Season 1 I did not really plan to start doing a podcast, the podcast planned to start doing me, apparently. There have always been so many people in the industry I wanted to have a chat with that, after the first episode was over and done with, I had a…
The Genesis Temple Podcast Episode 8 For the eighth episode of the Genesis Temple podcast, together with fellow gaming journalist Jesse Gregoire, I welcome indie developer Julia Minamata to discuss her progress with The Crimson Diamond (download the first chapter here), along with her ideas for the main character’s background. We also touch upon her…
In the first part of the retrospective for Trecision, the software house tested the water of the Italian gaming market of the early 90s by releasing two titles for Amiga, then moving on to PC. Unfortunately, no Italian publisher seemed to allow them enough resources to invest and enlarge the team. In a country where…
The Genesis Temple Podcast Episode 7 For the seventh episode of the Genesis Temple podcast, I sit together with fellow gaming journalist Jesse Gregoire, to have a chat with adventure game developer Francisco Gonzalez. He has developed one of the more interesting point’n’clicks of the last few years, Lamplight City, and he’s currently working on…
The Genesis Temple Podcast Episode 6 In this sixth episode of the never ending saga of “what could go wrong with my audio today”, I sit down with Jay Tholen to converse about various topics, ranging from Hypnospace Outlaw (did you read my article yet?) and how its overall sense of community was in someway…
Liguria, on the western part of Italy and resting close to France, is home to several immensely popular culinary specialties, like pesto, and wordly-celebrated landmarks the likes of Cinque Terre and, naturally, Portofino. Along with being home to Dynabyte software and, years later, Artematica, the coastal region was also the birthplace of another important software…
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…
From its humble beginnings in Francesco Carlà’s private home, seen in Part I, Simulmondo managed to merge talent and business into a successful company which grew almost bigger than the size of a developer like Electronic Arts at the time. From 1992 on, because of the CEO’s stubbornness in continuing to pursue the selling on…
Throughout 2000 years of human history, ever since mankind understood how to package and sell a work of art, a single struggle has resisted, immortal, rearing its ugly head time and time again: the artist against the system. It’s a timeless tale, used in books and screenplays: the desperate toil of a striving artist to…