IFComp - predictions, favourites? (ifcomp.org)
For the unfamiliar, IFComp is the biggest event in the IF community, with usually 50+ entrants each year. The link is to all the games—which are, of course, free. Consider becoming a judge or donating to the prize pool!...
very funny playthrough of Tender Loving Care by supergreatfriend, reading everything in the game (some NSFW dialog/text) (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/4153346...
Intro for The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) (youtu.be)
brilliant intro cinematic
Interview about the music of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour (youtu.be)
My band Error 47 sat down with two legends — Graeme Devine and George Sanger — and chatted for an hour about the music of these iconic CD-ROM games. Lots of cool nuggets in here, including how Trilobyte took a massive chance in supporting General MIDI, and how we might not have gotten Nine Inch Nails’ beloved Quake...
Point-and-click adventure game royalty Broken Sword is back (www.pcgamesn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3710782...
many game demos available on the ScummVM website (www.scummvm.org)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/980903...
GOBLiiiNS5 on Steam -- with demo! (store.steampowered.com)
GOBLiiiNS5 - The Invasion of the Morglotons Point'nClick adventure game in 2d. French and english version. 16 great levels full of puzzles, characters and humor....
The biggest "narrative dissonance" in adventure games set in the modern day is the lack of retail stores.
Need a screwdriver? Better hope there’s one lying under a brick in a back alley somewhere!...
New SCI decompiler takes all the guesswork out of poking around old Sierra games (youtu.be)
ScummVM dev Sluicebox just blew the doors to the Sierra kingdom wide open. He wrote a decompiler that annotates the decompiled scripts flawlessly so there’s no more guesswork as to “uh, I wonder what ‘global34’ does.”...
Favorite adventure game UI
What’s your favorite interface in adventure games? Doesn’t necessarily have to be the most perfect or easy to use; just the one that you’re the most partial to....
Adventure game chat room in the fediverse (matrix.to)
I was nudged towards looking into Matrix, the fedi-alternative to Discord, to see if I should set up a chat space for adventure game fans… and it turns out I didn’t have to. One already exists!...
Please recommend some short fun visual novel stuff
Yes this is outside the scope of “Adventure” and “Point-and-Click” games, not really sure if the Narrative genre would be something different from visual novel....
Games with multiple paths/solutions (lemm.ee)
One of the things that have always endeared me to adventure games above all other types of fiction (books, movies, etc.) is that they give the player the opportunity to shape the story and unfold it at their own pace. While some games are content to have a linear story (and no slight against that — some absolute classics have...
What's an adventure game soundtrack that lives rent free in your head? (youtu.be)
I mean, obviously I’m biased, but Space Quest III just had one of the most amazing kick-ass soundtracks. Composed by Bob Siebenberg, the drummer from Supertramp!
What's an underrated classic you feel more people should know about? (lemm.ee)
Loom may not exactly be obscure by any standard, but I don’t see it being mentioned nearly as much as, say, Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island. But it was a truly revolutionary way of reimagining the adventure game genre, and in a very early age of point-and-click. No inventory, single mouse click interaction, using spells...