Emerald City Confidential, Wadjet Eye Games brand spankin’ new game has finally been released to the public by publisher, PlayFirst. Finally!
Now, I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I got to do a bit of beta testing for this game and can tell you that it’s definitely going to be worth your time and even the $19.95 you’ll have to pay for the download.
I mean, it’s just that good.
Dave Gilbert did a great job with the story behind this game and took what he felt was the true land of Oz into this gritty detective game. You’ll also …read more

Okay, this indy game I found thanks to the wonderful website, IndieGames.com, has one of the best tag lines I’ve ever seen: “The Unfortunate Eating Begins”. When is eating ever unfortunate? OH, I know when! When monsters eat a bunch of tourists who are checking out a cave!
In Neverending Light, you get to play one of the tourists who were not eaten by the cave monsters. Seeing as you are the only person who survives the monster attack, you get to find your way out of a dark, monster infested tunnel all by your lonesome! And all you have is …read more

The lovely SSH over at The AGS Blog has done an amazing job of showing the world just what developers using Adventure Game Studio can do. All year long, he toils away and posts things about new adventure games and getting exclusive interviews with developers. You know, fun stuff like that!
Well, recently, he has taken on a challenge: getting people to vote on who has made the best adventure games over the previous year! And then he has to take those results and put them in a format us mortal folk can appreciate.
Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Well, it is!
The …read more

One of the best things about indie game developers is their need to take an old game and make it nice, new and shiny. And when I say shiny, I mean sparklin’ like a brand new sun. Okay, that didn’t even make any sense, but whatever. I’m an adventure game player, not a damn poet!
AGDInteractive Studios did the damn near impossible: They recreated King’s Quest I. Why? Because they’re huge fans of the series. But also maybe because they want to keep the adventure game genre alive and show a new generation just how fun those old adventure games …read more

There’s an indy developer by the lovely name of LimpingFish who is well on their way to producing a new game for us to pet and love and call George. The game, which is being done in one of my favorite adventure game engines, Adventure Game Studio, is supposed to be a horror adventure that will probably make you cry a little. At least that’s what horror games are SUPPOSED to do, right?
The name of the game is The Hollow and judging by the screencaps, this indy game looks more big game developer studio and less indy than most …read more

Have you ever wanted to play a classic book, like Les Misérables or maybe The Divine Comedy, but just haven’t found that game, because no one has actually created the game? Well, you’re in luck, because some crazy developer guy named Chris Tolworthy is putting together what he calls Enter the Story, where he’ll take a classic book and make it into a rather lovely adventure game. I wrote about Chris a while back when I first heard about his project to make classic books come to life.
Well, now Chris is done with his first game in the series, …read more

You know what website is cool? Indie Games. Why is it cool? Because, well, it features a ton of indie games made by indie developers from all around the world. Not only does Indie Games take a look at all the adventure games that are being developed, they also look at first person shooters, platformers, RPGs and any other game genres you can think about.
In one of their more recent articles, Indie Games put together a list of the top 20 freeware adventure games. 20 games! That’s a lot of indie games to play in one year! All free! …read more

There is an interesting new action/adventure independently created game that I just found over at Indie Games called Gravity Bone. If you like people who are entirely made up of cube like shapes, then this game is probably for you!
In the game, you play a secret agent. I’m not really sure what the story is about, but it sounds exciting:

The lobby desk of the Saturday Club is pock-marked with New Musical bullets. Seven bullets, to be exact. They’ve never been removed and have never been painted over. Why? Frankly, who cares.
To make it in Nuevos Aires, one has to have …read more

So, out of pretty much no where, there is a new episodic indy adventure game made using Adventure Game Studio. The new game is called Thorak & Steve and features two cavemen who romp around on adventures doing weird stuff.
Here’s what the author and developer of the game, Mark ‘Klink’ Kalinic, says about the game:

The game quite simply follows the weird, random and wacky adventures of Thorak, a surprisingly intelligent caveman, and his best friend Steve, his not-so-intelligent severely retarded best friend.

A severely retarded best friend? I think we all can say we have at least one of these.
Klink’s …read more

There is a new adventure game creation tool that is bound to hit the Internet any time now developed by a guy going by the name Clarvalon. The new creation tool, which is called XAGE (XNA Adventure Game Engine) is going to be using Microsoft’s XNA framework, which is good for a lot of developers who don’t want to learn a new programming language, but still would love to create adventure games.
Now, XNA is being used on a number of different platforms, including the Xbox 360, Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player and PC. This can only mean good things for the …read more