Will take any excuse to recommend this album: Sybreed - The Pulse of Awakening

Wait, who downvoted this? 😅 I’m not mad, I’m just curious as to how a link to an interview could make someone go, “Nope, this is trash. To the pit of Hades with you.”

I turn my back for a few weeks and this is the sort of shit you guys get up to? 😜

Well… It works, but a couple of notes (mostly to myself, but, experts, feel free to weigh in) for the future:

• Don’t lead with the “@adventuregames” tag. It’s messy.
• Keep titles short, 'cos it copies the contents of the post as the title.
• Figure out if there’s a way to split title and post content in the Mastodon toot, so the post content isn’t just a copy of the title.
• I can’t edit the post after the fact ('cos my Mastodon user and Lemmy user are, as far as this platform is concerned, two different people), and I’m worried if I edit the toot on Mastodon, it’ll just post a new thread here instead of editing the existing one.

This is a fantastic article. I’m actually working on a 7th Guest/11th Hour retrospective video (probably because I’ve got Stauf on my brain due to our Kickstarter), and this article is pretty much my go-to reference. I haven’t seen a lot of videos touch on the how’s and why’s of those games — YouTubers seem mostly content with just snarking at the hammy acting and the slow node transitions — and I kinda wanna make a video that explains why that is… while also snarking at the hammy acting and slow node transitions. 😁

Lucy Dreaming is fantastic. I played it on my stream last year with the developer.

That’s my friend Steve’s ex-wife. Not joking.

I love Ross’ videos. And he hit the nail right on the head: For all its flaws (few and far between), Kyrandia 2 does what a fantasy game should do: make you wish you could actually go there yourself.

Ahhh, that was it! The community language was only set to “English.” I have set it to both English and Undetermined, as you suggested, and now it works! Cheers so much!!! 😂❤️❤️❤️

Testing, testing…

A lot of people really hold this one in very high regard. Unfortunately, with regards to a rerelease, the rights situation is a tangled spiderweb of immense proportions.

I’m Adventure Game Studio all the way myself. Not because I think it’s the superior tool necessarily, but it’s got a very easy learning curve and it’s versatile enough that you can get away with a lot of really cool things.

(coughs in self-promotion) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twoguysrecords/soups-on-music-from-the-7th-guest-and-the-11th-hour-on-vinyl

Somehow my friend from school had gotten wind of the “bye bye wizard” cheat code, and we STILL couldn’t get anywhere in the game. I’ll take falling off a space station to my death, thanks. 😂

I didn’t play it until a couple of years ago when I did my video on it. I imagine I would have had a lot more fun with it if I was a kid and had all the time in the world to explore the world. Sadly, my first KQ game was KQ3, which stopped you from having any fun every 2-3 minutes with the sudden appearance of a bossy wizard.

The original King’s Quest — as in PC Jr, or the DOS conversion? Either way, I would imagine KQ1 kept you guys busy for a loooooong time.