Developer: CyberdreamsPublisher: CyberdreamsYear: 1992Genre: Adventure Players control Mike Dawson (played by lead designer Mike Dawson) who has a nightmare, while living in his new mansion, of an alien embryo being shot into his head by a machine. While exploring his new house and the town he lives in, he learns of a parallel universe called […]| The Virtual Moose
Developer: Trilobyte| The Virtual Moose
Aliya is an archaeologist, and a resident of the Nebula – a cluster of inhabited Moons (planetoids) floating in space, with streams of liquid and gas running between them known as the Rivers. Aliya sails the Rivers in her ship, the Nightingale, seeking to piece together the history of the Nebula through studying artifacts and … Continue reading Heaven’s Vault: A Breath of Rareified Air| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown is a new game based on the iconic Star Trek series that combines exploration, ship and resource management, roguelite elements, and meaningful decision-making.| Game Fragger
Game genres are often our first port of call when trying to classify games and analyze trends among the industry. When a surprise hit splashes onto live streaming, our first instinct is to compare this game to other games within the same genre to see why it differs. Even here at Stream Hatchet we tend […] The post Game Genre Definitions for Live Streaming appeared first on Stream Hatchet.| Stream Hatchet
Developer: Cosmic Void| The Virtual Moose
This accessible academic textbook chronicles the legacy the adventure game genre has left behind on the contemporary gaming landscape. A generation of designers grew up playing these games, which are rarely studied today as a comprehensive body of work, and their DNA lives on not only in the work of contemporary auteurs but also in the form of dozens of daughter genres, from visual novels to walking simulators to escape rooms to puzzle platformers. We make the case that the genre has always b...| aaronareed.net