Oh! Right. Silly me, how could I forget 💰 bsky.app/profile/jonk...

it’s funny how according to the verge the RAM crisis is just something that happened without any cause. no one caused it. no one’s to blame.

Apparently I've been doing this shit for 14 years now. Maybe I'll actually get good at it some day.

The first ever Adventure Game Hotshot Awards – 2025 Final Nominees adventuregamehotspot.com/feature/6023... #adventuregame #indiegame #cozygame #storygame #pcgame #videogameawards #pixelartgame #adventuregames #induegamedev

You may not even know this, but if you have a copy of our Gabriel Knight record "Synths of the Fathers," the cover and inside paintings were done by George Avdoulos, who designed the first game and worked on level design for this sequel.

Did Hannah Montana ever get around to doing Happiness in Slavery?

Me, doing some relatable William Blake (1757 – 1827) material in Dictionary Corner. Come and see me on tour: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

my gf is reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the first time So I gotta draw my guy who named himself after a car

I posted this on my Discord as a challenge to Santa Claus, one of the best Sierra speedrunners. He came back with a 3:42 time. 😳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQX...

Alarm bells are ringing.

Say what you want about gamers, but they're one of the few groups who consistently reject the onslaught of generative AI that's poised to take over other creative fields. Keep resisting, keep supporting real, human-made games. We really do appreciate you. You guys keep us going. Don't give in!

A sad truth.

This is even more evil than King’s Quest III! ESCAPE ORTEGA! | Can YOU Beat My Time? | A SPACE QUEST FAN-GAME #SpaceQuest #AdventureGames youtu.be/KKUhAyy-zcQ

Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight but make it point-and-click instead. I wouldn't know how to make pixel-art to save my life, so some photobashing, some fake pixelization and I at least managed to get something that resembles what I was picturing in my head.

>be me >play a Roblox game with my son >someone in chat asks me how old I am >answer truthfully >server starts calling me grandpa >literal lol

playing Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon today twitch.tv/RetrogradeTom #retrogaming #retrogames #adventuregames

Black Dahlia is consuming my hard drives. I just had to do a massive purge to clear up enough space to continue working on it. The game itself: 4.94 GB Converted FMVs: 16.9 GB Playthrough footage: 20.3 GB Retrospective: 4.08 GB Interviews: 147 GB Good fucking lord.

It's the weekend so maybe you're in the mood for a movie night? In that case, how about a 4 hour "movie edit" of Black Dahlia, the 1998 FMV adventure game by Take 2 that's truly un-fucking-believable? Available now on my Patreon for free: www.patreon.com/post...

Muriel Tramis: A visionary, a bold storyteller, an icon of the game industry, and... OH LORD, what the hell was Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth even?!? Ahem. Anyway, raise a glass for the Queen of Moon Logic! ❤️

A short message from me about the documentary, why I want to make it, and how you can help it get made.

A wonderful and heartwarming look at an adventure game that sadly fell between the cracks: @oneshorteye.bsky.social follows @thephantomfellows.bsky.social through the development of the hidden gem The Phantom Fellows. youtu.be/JHSJZb9vl9w

Also, age verification is the easiest shit to bypass. Roblox kids have literally just been printing out photos of adults and holding them up to their webcams for ages. Anyone who thinks this is to "protect the children" is fucking delusional... or duplicious.

First episode of DevsQuest, a deep dive on Sierra's great Quest series by @dutchmagic.bsky.social, premieres FEB. 14 (❤️) and, appropriately, focuses on Leisure Suit Larry. Here's a teaser: youtu.be/bq-am862uRg

There is an updated version of my infamous puzzle game 'Boppin' available, for CHEAP AS FREE on my personal website at Jenniverse.com right now. It runs on Windows 10 or higher, and is complete with all levels and content. Play the original source of the slang term 'Yeet', today!

LLM Slop Will Make Us Antisocial - Ruminations on IFComp 2025 mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2... i wrote about recent events in the interactive fiction community and how it emboldened me to fight against vibe coders and LLM slop.

Incidentally, you're free to use this as background music in your videos, streams, podcasts, etc. All I ask in return is a link in the description. 👍 (The album is free to download on Bandcamp.)

I just released 5 new tracks of danceable EBM music that you may or may not enjoy. Produced and mixed by @jbhstudios.bsky.social, so you know it at least sounds decent on your home stereo. Bandcamp link: alchemydk.bandcamp.com/album/black-... CD and 12" vinyl: elasticstage.com/alchemy/rele...

In my interviews with the developers of Black Dahlia, the term "sandwich puzzles" came up a few times. It was their somewhat derogatory term for lateral thinking puzzles (think LucasArts) of "get this, use it on this, give it to this NPC" kind of puzzle design.

"Passport to Adventure: The Scumm Story" is an upcoming documentary charting the history of LucasArt's SCUMM engine in classic adventure games like Monkey Island. I spoke to filmmaker @mossrc.bsky.social to find out who's involved & what it'll look like! youtu.be/eJYQpimkVxY @scummdoc.bsky.social

A reminder that this is still a thing.

This is fantastic! We tried doing a metal cover of this in @error47.bsky.social and let me tell you, this is NOT an easy song to play!

Reminder here’s some adobe alternatives, Because FUCK ADOBE….

This pains me so much to do this. I loved @gog.com But I have to take a stand. I have a feeling they don't even read their Bluesky posts so I had to put this in a support ticket.

ICYMI - the podcast is back! Have you played The Dagger of Amon-Ra? What are your thoughts and opinions on it?

Gorgeous! Check out that atmospheric lighting.

Martian Memorandum, the second Tex Murphy game, is now supported by ScummVM. Which presumably means Countdown and Amazon are also supported, since they use the same engine. Now imagine a day when the full Tex Murphy series is supported. A boy can dream.

Viewers are watching more shorts because they are algorithmically calculated to grab and hold your attention. But it’s not like you are watching any one specific creator. It’s great for YouTube because they keep people on the platform, but it’s not helping the actual creators.

The results are in. After a month of releasing a Short EVERY SINGLE DAY, I can conclude that Shorts are NOT WORTH IT. Diatribe continues in replies. 👇

My latest co-authored article with Megan Condis was just published in Games: Research and Practice. And it's open access! Check out "Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s."

I don't know if it's just me, but this used to stress me the fuck out. Not as much as current events, obviously, but as far as minor inconveniences go, bad sectors are no joke.

Where is the "acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of humanity" future that Star Trek TNG was talking about? Maybe Tyler Durden was on to something.

My boy turns 6 years old today! ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/X...

If you're too busy to book yourself for your own YouTube video, you might be too busy for YouTube. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Working with the @spacequesthistorian.com and his band @error47.bsky.social for the boxes for the kickstarter project "Soup's On: music from The 7th Guest & The 11th Hour on vinyl". I am honored to be asked to do the project. It will hold 5 vinyl's 2 CD and 1 tape. I'm prototyping now. So excited.

I've played both. They both offer frankly unprecedented replay value in an adventure game landscape that seems content to tell a singular linear story and call it a day. The complexity of these games is unreal. Also, Francisco is a nice guy who can bench press me (and has).

Good.

The intro from "Another World" still manages to impress decades later, which is why I feel like it's nearly impossible to describe emotions one felt upon encountering it 35 years ago for the first time.