What is Adventure Games Podcast all about?
This is a website and podcast dedicated to Adventure Game news and reviews as well as interviews with adventure game developers.

Who are you and when did you first start playing adventure games?

My name is Seoirse Dunbar from Ireland and my first adventure game was Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. I had played Final Fantasy XII and Metal Gear solid and while I enjoyed those games I wasn’t good at the action and I didn’t like the levelling up in Final Fantasy. I was searching for a game without those elements and found a demo of Broken Sword from a game magazine in 1998. From there my love of adventure games was born!

Why create a podcast?
3 reasons: 1:) adventure games are my passion. 2:) I love podcasts. And 3:) I want to help adventure game developers promote their games and find a bigger audience and help adventure gamers find out more about adventure games they may find interesting.

Are other people on the podcast?

Yes we have a whole team! I am lucky enough to be joined by Tomas, Laura, Jared, Kieran, Amy (aka SummerB) and Rose.

What exactly is an “adventure game”?
This is a topic of great debate among adventure game fans as people have different interpretations. But for me an adventure game would have at least two of the following:

Story

Puzzles

Exploration

So you mean like “Tomb Raider” and “Uncharted”?
Not exactly. While they have all 3 elements, they also have a lot of action so I would consider them “action/adventure” games. I’m talking mostly about point and click adventure games with little or no action elements or games like TellTale’s games such as The Walking Dead.

Gotcha! So why adventure games? Do you not like the other genres?
I have nothing at all against other genres and have in fact played all genres at some point. To this day Final Fantasy VII remains one of my favourite games of all time. But adventure games have always been my passion so this is what I would like to focus on.

Which guests have you had on your podcast?

We have had plenty of guests from classic adventure game developers such as Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner, Steve Ince, Ken and Roberta Williams, Al Lowe to developers of modern adventure games such as Dave Gilbert, Francisco Gonzalez and Jon Ingold to first developers getting their start in the game industry.

Why should adventure game developers agree to talk with you?
Good question! We have been going for several years and we have a loyal audience who love adventure games. Therefore you would be talking about your game to a ready made fanbase. You can therefore hopefully find a new audience and hopefully increase their sales.

Are you affiliated with any adventure game developer?
Nope.

Do you make any money from sales of any adventure games?
No but if any adventure game developer would like to share their profits with me, my bank account details are…

I’ll take that as a no then. So why do you want to help adventure game developers find a new audience and increase their sales?
Simple. If they sell more games they make more games and everybody wins!

Fair enough. Will all adventure game developers you speak with have released their games?
Not necessarily. Some adventure game developers may be working on their first game.

Where can we find more information about the developers and their games?
I will include links to the developers’ and games’ sites in the show notes.

You mentioned you also wanted to help adventure game players in the podcast?
Yes! I hope to help other adventure game players find out more about adventure games they may find interesting through the podcast.

What about people who don’t play adventure games? Or games at all? Will they find this podcast interesting?
Hopefully yes. The great thing about adventure games is that they are usually easy to play and you don’t need to spend a huge amount of time on them as you do on other games since adventure games can be quite short in comparison. So if you like reading books or comics or resolving puzzles then you will most likely find at least some adventure games interesting.

You also mentioned that you would talk about news and reviews?
Yes! So the news would be mostly new Adventure Game announcements, release dates, new Kickstarter announcements and any other news relevant to the Adventure Game community. We also review and discuss both old and new Adventure Games released.

Where will the podcast be available?
You can find the podcast episodes on this page here but you can also listen to the podcast on all major platforms.

Is it also available on Youtube?
Yes you can find some videos we uploaded here.

How often will the episodes be released?
Generally we upload at least one interview and one review episode per month but mostly we upload more.

Can we join the podcast if we’re interested?

If you love adventure games you can definitely request to join us! You can find out more here

Where can we contact you if we wanted to talk about our adventure games or if we had any comments or questions?
You can contact me on the Contact Me page here or you can follow the Adventure Games Podcast on Twitter and Instagram. You can also send a game to be reviewed here or you can request an interview here.