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Oz Orwell and the Crawling Chaos – REVIEW 21 Aug 2012 | 06:15 pm
If there’s one genre that’s got a tradition of having scary games (apart from the survival horror genre, for obvious reasons) it’s our genre of choice: adventure games. Oz Orwell and the Crawling Chao...
The Crawling Terror of Past Projects – INTERVIEW with Larry Ahern 12 Aug 2012 | 11:58 pm
May I present the interview I conducted for ACG with Larry Ahern (Full Throttle, Curse of Monkey Island, Insecticide) concerning a bunch of adventure games that sadly none of us – the players – ever g...
- What happened to Butterfly? – The Wachowskis! 11 Aug 2012 | 09:11 pm
HardyDev’s first ever interviewee Adam Kuczek (that I talked to back in 2009) is sadly to busy working with the Wachowskis (on Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending) to finish his own cyberpunk adventure ...
CONTEST The Journey Down RESULTS 6 Jul 2012 | 09:16 am
Sorry, that you had to wait a few days longer for the results, but the good news is we added an additional copy of The Journey Down to the pool of prizes. So there are FIVE lucky people who’ll get the...
The Journey Down “IV” CONTEST 11 Jun 2012 | 03:02 am
Four! IV! “4“! That’s the amount of The Journey Down digital copies that we’ll be giving away courtesy of Skygoblin – the scourge of the skyroads. Participate in our contest, or risk a surprise goblin...
The Journey Down: Chapter 1 – REVIEW 11 Jun 2012 | 03:02 am
If you’re looking at this game thinking you’ve seen it before, you may be right. It is in fact a completely revamped and extended HD version of the freeware The Journey Down: Over The Edge, which was ...
Process – REVIEW 18 Mar 2012 | 07:21 am
The recent success of Dear Esther shows there’s a real market for atmospheric first-person games that play more like an interactive story than a traditional game. Process is such a game. In terms of g...
The long kiss GESUNDHEIT! – INTERVIEW with Matt Hammill 7 Mar 2012 | 12:44 pm
The PC demo of Gesundheit! from 2006 is to this date one of the most professional looking work done with the Adventure Game Studio engine. Also the most fun piece of snot-shoot puzzling around tear-ey...
Making History VI: You’re the architect 3 Mar 2012 | 10:35 am
Architecture is perhaps the epitome of human creativity. For thousands of years, it has been one of the most (if not the most) powerful ways of human expression. You can read about Egyptian culture in...
Making History VI: You’re the architect 3 Mar 2012 | 05:35 am
Architecture is perhaps the epitome of human creativity. For thousands of years, it has been one of the most (if not the most) powerful ways of human expression. You can read about Egyptian culture in...