by Laura Cress | Nov 9, 2023 | Interview
Starting out as an already very polished free game made for AdvXJam in 2020 called Hair of the Dog, and from the developer of the excellent full-fledged point-and-click adventure game Lucy Dreaming, the updated and newly rebranded Heir of the Dog rightfully drew a...
by Laura Cress | Nov 8, 2023 | Preview
Whilst it may have been a somewhat rainy, windswept November weekend in London, there was nothing but warmth felt inside the University of Greenwich as AdventureX opened up for another year. The UK narrative gaming convention is now in its 12th outing and showed no...
by Laura Cress | Sep 20, 2023 | Review
The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a hand-drawn 2D point-and click adventure from Spanish director and animator Nacho Rodriguez, which shines in its surrealist, cartoonish art style but is let down by imprecise controls. This might come as no surprise in light of what Mr....
by Laura Cress | Sep 2, 2023 | Preview
In the second and final roundup of my recent intensive experience at Germany’s Gamescom, one of the biggest annual in-person gaming events in the world (find part one here), I’ve once again broken down all the various demos I got to try out into neat little categories...
by Laura Cress | Aug 30, 2023 | Preview
Another year, another Gamescom! It sure is wonderful to be able to say that about the annual German gaming event, given the absence of a similarly huge in-person conference, E3, earlier this year. Thankfully there was nothing to stop me from heading once again back to...