Our guest this week is Paul Conway who has worked on titles like Theme Park and The Sims and recently Darkside Detective, we talk about the rebirth of point & click adventure games in the 21st century and the joys and challenges of making them today.
Darkside Detective: http://darksidedetective.com/
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PLAY Expo Blackpool: https://www.playexpoblackpool.com/
RCM Christmas party: http://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5946.0
Show notes:
Watch Ravi’s Simon The Sorcerer Live Stream: https://youtu.be/MnAwv0TzWJQ?t=559
RIP Ben Daglish:
Mark ‘TDK’ Knight tribute: https://youtu.be/-LWUA5mylvo
C64 Audio tribute download: https://bit.ly/2ytFajQ
The Retro Hour Episode 17 with Ben Daglish: https://audioboom.com/posts/6977717-the-retro-hour-episode-17-c64-music-with-ben-daglish
Blockbuster printing their own carts: https://bit.ly/2NSrcm6
Sega Terradrive: https://bit.ly/2QKNqTX
Internet archive releases full c64 collection: https://bit.ly/2RGv8od
Archiving early popup ads: https://bit.ly/2IPGceS