Editor Releases Game, Gets Interviewed

Jimmy Maher, editor of the online magazine SPAG (Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games) and recognized IF historian, recently released his new game The King of Shreds and Patches.

The Color and the Shade

Since I had some available time this week, I went on a lark and visited the AGS forums to see what’s cooking. One link led to another, which led me to their Pick of the Month for May 2009: Fading Shades. The blurb for the POTM also reminded me of another first-person game I’ve always meant to finish – Unbound.

HotU will be back…soon

I just found out earlier that the Home of the Underdogs site has been down for several weeks now because their webhosting company has filed for bankruptcy. (No wonder there’s a separate Reality-on-the-Norm forum over at the AGS forums…and they have a new site, too.)

The Silliness of it all

I don’t know what to make of The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge (henceforth referred to as “Desert Bridge”). After playing through nearly all of Kyratzes’s games, with all of their grim and determined stance against war and its effects, here comes Desert Bridge – an amusing, whimsical, colorful, and serious game.

In a sense, it’s a lot more fun.

New Jonas Kyratzes Game Released

Here’s a new title off Jonas Kyratzes’s drawing board: The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge, released just 2 days ago.

Desert Bridge opening screen

The game features music by composer Helen Trevillion and colorful hand-drawn art by artist Verena Huber. I still haven’t started playing the game yet, but the screenshots on Jonas’s site look pretty promising.