Back Seat Designers

You weren’t expecting that title were you? Good. Because this episode is about subverting expectations. Our very special guest this week is Steve Gaynor of the Fullbright Company, perhaps best known as the writer and designer of the award-winning Gone Home – one of the best adventure games of recent years. He’s also done levelContinue reading S4E1 – Big Motherfuckers with Flamethrowers

In which Gareth pisses about with the sound board.

Greetings, exhausted ones! As you may have learned from our shamelessly narcissistic social media profiles, we are gearing up for another season of Back Seat Designers goodness. In fact, we already recorded our inaugural episode, which features a spectacular guest appearance by [REDACTED]. But that is not what this post is about. You will haveContinue reading A special announcement, or “The Ice Cream Wizard Cometh”

So, yeah. We went to AdventureX. We had a good time. I think that about does it, doesn’t it? No, actually, it doesn’t. We had an absolute blast. We came back from it so inspired and fired up. Fred got off his ass and finished the talkie version of that game we worked on lastContinue reading AdventureX Special #2: Our post-orgasmic reflections

Next weekend, all three of us — Gareth, Frederik and myself — will be in London at Goldsmiths University, participating in this year’s AdventureX conference. That’s right, we’ll be alongside greats such as Charles Cecil, Dave Gilbert, Theodore Waern, Richard Cobbett, Rhianna Pratchett, and — lest we forget — Natalie “Resulka” Juhasz, one of theContinue reading AdventureX Special #1: Hopes, dreams and anticipation

For our third and final off-season special, we complete our trilogy of prodding well-known adventure game people to give their take on the state of the adventure game industry. This episode, we light some poultry butts on fire and address several elephants of varying colors in the room with Katie Hallahan, co-founder and PR director of PhoenixContinue reading Special III – Katie Hallahan, Phoenix Online Studios

Well, after our troubles last time, we didn’t learn our lesson. What we did learn is that Dave Gilbert listened to our special episode with Infamous Adventures’ co-founder Shawn Mills about the problems they had recently gone through. And he offered to have a chat about the state of the business from the Wadjet EyeContinue reading SPECIAL II – Dave Gilbert, Wadjet Eye

It’s the surprise special you didn’t know you wanted! Actually, you probably didn’t want it, but cut me some slack, will you? It’s been a while. It was, however, a surprise that I wanted when we decided to reconvene for a special off-season episode last month. We’re still working out what exactly season 4 of thisContinue reading SPECIAL – Shawn Mills, Infamous Quests

Remakes are tricky. Why do we live in a remake culture? What makes a good remake? And what games have NOT been remade that we'd like to see remade, for whatever reason? All this, and an explosive finale, on this final episode of season 3!

Gareth is off doing something more important today, so he has left me in charge of announcing this week’s episode. At least, that’s the reason he claimed. It’s quite fortuitous that I am able to comply, actually, having recently dodged a chance to check into Club 27. If you ever find yourself in Denmark, never allowContinue reading S3E11 – Adventure Elements in Other Games