Richard Cobbett

Old Skies has won TWO Adventure Game Hotshot awards, in the categories of “Best Story” and “Best Sci Fi”. Thank you so much, @aghotspot.bsky.social!

The beast with two green backs… if you get what I mean…

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Completing it multiple times is possibly more awkward, being all "Okay, I need to- shit, wrong kid."

Oh, yeah. I was just kinda interested in the concept regardless of the obvious marketing angle. I won't remember who was behind it in a week.

You should see the bits you can’t!

I suspect that would not have been a problem with most of the era…

Screenshot of an adventure game. A man stands in the clearing of a mushroom forest, looking at a pomegranate.

Folks have been testing the first chapter of Gilt this week. Lots of really great feedback. I added a couple of scenes, too. Here’s one I painted on Wednesday. I’m so happy to see people really connecting with the project and enjoying my strange ideas.

I blame that guy Clint.

Flick that, I guess.

(I mean, at least they didn't go with Zak...)

I think MI1 is a better idea of 'classic', really. It set the structure that the later games would use, whereas Maniac Mansion's design was never really done again in the same way.

Monkey Island 1 would also be a reasonably solid choice.

Yeah, Larry 1 is a reasonably short game and mostly quite logical for the time. Problematic content, of course, but…

It’s about the LAST (good) game I’d try to use for this.

I was going to joke that three hours is a speed run but I know someone would have “well, actually’ed that it’s only six minutes. Either way, it was a beast at the time…

This is interesting, but I deeply disagree that Maniac Mansion is a three hour game. Would have been more interested to see how people handled something like Loom as a starting point.

He's fun, but it's weird how they went from "I'm a space pirate who wants your warp core" in the first episode to, well, what he gets up to in this one.

"They CANNOT AFFORD ME!!!!"

Nope, just his offscreen presence with a truly dumb plot.

“Hey, so, does our show about cadets at Starfleet Academy really need to end with a galactic level threat?”
“Define need.“
“Match the theme or character journeys in any way and make contextual sense with what has gone before.”
“Full disclosure, I stop listening every time I see your lips move.”

It's quite the thing.

It’s no Gal Panic…

(points silently to the DVD versions that were controlled with a TV remote)

I remember doing a video retrospective on these, and having to get the footage from the DVD versions. Talk about a choice in terms of playing them - good video and absolutely impossible controls, or solid enough mouse controls and footage that would need to be upscaled to look good on an an iPod...

"That buys you the name of your game spoken in a British accent. One take."

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Doing an AMA on @skillshuba.bsky.social this Saturday at 1pm PT! Come ask me anything (within reason)!

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"Slay, The Spire", a tactical card game about being a fashion consultant for tall buildings in urgent need of a makeover.

An inverted one, since someone else is officially the sub?

The Vet Cong?