Jack Allin

Co-founder, editor-in-chief

As a games journalist for over twenty years, first as editor in chief of Adventure Gamers and now as co-founder/editor/podcaster at the Adventure Game Hotspot, Jack has written literally thousands of articles that both celebrate the genre's rich history and champion its future by supporting modern developers. He has also edited scripts for dozens of game localizations, and is currently co-writing and designing the upcoming adventure Fogtown.

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Posts by Jack Allin

Substitute Priest now presiding on Steam

Hand-painted point-and-click adventure with horror elements available for download on Windows and Mac... Read more

The Endless Dream becomes real on Early Access

Demo also available for first-person 3D psychological puzzle-adventure on Steam for Windows PC... Read more

Spirit of the North to be revived in sequel

New open-world 3D fox adventure unveiled and coming soon to PC and consoles... Read more

Kickstarter to help make October Nightmares a reality

Cosmic horror game from the creator of The Whispering Valley set during the 1970s October Crisis in Canada... Read more

Art Heist – Escape Room Adventure perpetrated by M9 Games

New first-person mystery from M9 Games available on PC, Switch and mobile devices... Read more

FINIS gets started on PC and PlayStation platforms

Choice-driven 3D "psychological evaluation through colors" coming November 2nd to Xbox devices... Read more

Slay the Princess springs to life on Steam and GOG

Demo available on itch.io for subversive choice-driven dark fantasy visual novel... Read more

Demo, Indiegogo campaign detected for Alex Hill

Nancy Drew-styled slideshow mystery series to debut with Whispers at White Oak Inn... Read more

Makoto Wakaido’s Case Files Trilogy Deluxe detected on PC and Switch

Anthology of bite-sized pixel art mysteries available in English for the first time with all-new bonus case... Read more

One Night: Burlesque to open November 3rd

Visual novel-styled murder prevention mystery coming to PC and Nintendo Switch... Read more

Kona II: Brume emerges from the mist

Sequel to 2017 first-person mystery in rural Northern Canada available now on PC and consoles... Read more

The Art of Storytelling in Games

Joshua, Jack and staff writer Johnny Nys unpack interactive narratives, tackling themes like what makes a good game story, how to integrate puzzles, the benefits and drawbacks of player choice and multiple endings, the difficult balance between showing and telling, yea or nay on episodic gaming, and so much more. Bonus related top five: adventures we'd like to see turned into novels... Read more

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