Back Seat Designers

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Steven Alexander's childhood dream was to make a game. Now he has. Even though his company has since gone belly-up, he still fulfilled his dream, and that's good enough for him.

Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye Games shares his insights on the status of the adventure game industry in 2018.

So. A fortnight ago we released the final episode of Season 4, in which Jean-Baptiste de Clerfayt and “San” Francisco Gonzales talked at length about adventure game communities before the brutal and horrible murder of the regular hosts. That wasn’t our first attempt to record that episode. On the evening of 8 May, we arrangedContinue reading S4 “Memorial Episode”

Sometimes, you only really consider something when it’s held in front of your face. For instance, I first met my co-hosts, Troels and Gareth, on teh interwebz around 2002. While I am not completely certain as to when curt resentment turned into friendships, I do now count the two gentlemen as two of my best friends. Shut up.Continue reading S4E17 – “Handjobs In a Parking Lot” Is One Of Bono’s Finest Songs

I am sometimes asked what games I play by people who don’t play games. I try to explain what an adventure game is by mumbling words like “story-driven” and “object puzzles,” and often the faux-interested response is, “Like, role playing games?” That’s around the time I suckerpunch them in the face repeatedly until their teethContinue reading S4E16 – We Are Not Done Yet, And I Will Not Tell You Anything

One of the wonderful perks of getting noticed more and more for our juvenile microphone antics is that we sometimes get approached by actual game designers, who will ask us if we’re interested in featuring their game on the podcast. (That was essentially how last week’s episode came together, too.) But way back before we evenContinue reading S4E15 – A Strange, Erotic Journey from Milan to Minsk: A Phat Paradigm Post-Mortem

We’re back from our mid-season break. Today, we’re interviewing Marcus, Matthias, and Tristan of Backwoods Entertainment, creators of the upcoming mystery adventure game Unforeseen Incidents. It’s a mystery game in several ways. First of all, the story in itself is a mystery, as in it’s one of those stories you’re thrust into that gradually unfoldsContinue reading S4E14 – What Is the Safe Word?

Startling news and revelations! One of the Back Seat Designers quits on the air! And, for some reason, we didn’t stop recording, kept going, edited, and released the episode anyway! Well, of course it’s just a joke, because we really are quite terrible at pretending on this show. The joke about me selling t-shirts wasContinue reading S4E13 – I Quit

They say, “Never meet your heroes.” Luckily, they are sometimes wrong. With apologies to my two lovely co-hosts, I’d like to start this blog post with a personal anecdote. Through the magic of simply switching on a microphone and yammering into the void, I have been fortunate enough to actually talk to people I usedContinue reading S4E12 – Pandora’s Big Box