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salty-horseon Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

Forgot about Erin Robinson's games, Spooks and Nanobots: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/search/&q=title-o...

Nanbobots was later reimagined as a commercial game with Wadjet Eye.

salty-horseon Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

Hurray for Cirque De Zale.

Both creators are now very active on Youtube. Yahtzee has split from The Escapist to create an independent journalism website Second Wind, and Rebecca streams video games as Rebecca's Pixel Quest.

A few more favorites:

The recent Shards of God, a science fantasy murder mystery https://hvavra.itch.io/shards-of-god

Duty and Beyond - a sprawling rabbit-hole adventure with a minimalistic low-res art style https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/747/

Ben Chandler has made a lot of fun tiny games: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/search/&q=title-o...

He is now working on Gilt, inspired by the Dying Earth and Book of the New Sun: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3979770/Gilt/. He also blogs, and has a huge archive analyzing point and click adventure game room art. https://ben304.blogspot.com/

His friend and collaborator Francisco Gonzales (Grundislav) also has a great backlog of games. Besides recent commercial efforts, there's the free Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series: https://www.grundislav.games/Ben-Jordan.html

salty-horseon How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

Richard Garfield has taught his daughter to lie with a simple game: She has to hide a coin in one of her hands, and then declare where it is, which could be a lie. Richard's task was to find it.

I think he mentions it in several lectures, but here's one: https://youtu.be/av5Hf7uOu-o?t=697

salty-horseon The inner life of the octopus (2022)

Check out the new science fiction novel The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler https://www.raynayler.net/ It's about minds and intelligence (octopus and otherwise).

salty-horseon The Sumerian Game

Kate Willært does great research. I highly recommend checking out the video essays: https://www.acriticalhit.com/category/video-essays/

salty-horseon "Another World" source code review (2011)

Infocom's Z-Machine used for text adventures is another good example.

salty-horseon "Another World" source code review (2011)

Some internal LucasArts documents have recently been put online by Aric Wilmunder.

Here's the official manual for SCUMM: http://wilmunder.com/Arics_World/Games_files/SCUMM%20Tutoria...

And the official tutorial: http://wilmunder.com/Arics_World/Games_files/SCUMM%20Tutoria...

There are several post-mortems about Maniac Mansion that go a bit into the creation of SCUMM: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNpjGvJwyL8 * http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014732/Classic-Game-Postmortem...

salty-horseon How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

The article doesn't mention the game's official website, which includes screenshots and a gameplay video that shows what's happening outside the screen: http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/

Also, there's a weird focus on the PS4, when, at least according to the website, it seems like it was developed originally for PCs, and may end up there as well.

salty-horseon Understand - A novelette by Ted Chiang

Not sure how good that resource is. It was last updated on 2012, and things happened since then :)

It doesn't mention his new story The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, available at http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...

Or a recent appearance at the EXPO 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_632pic1PlU