@CaptainKateCapsize
Absolutely!

@CaptainKateCapsize
What's your favorite adventure games then (besides Monkey Island 2)?

@SpaceQuestHistorian Well I don't know! I should play more, really. I liked Sam and Max, and the Amanita Design games, and I loved the Blackwell series. First and foremost MI2 though yes 🙂

What are yours (besides Space Quest)?

@CaptainKateCapsize
Sam & Max and the Blackwell games are pretty good. I'm partial to Beneath A Steel Sky and the Tex Murphy games (Under A Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, etc.).

@SpaceQuestHistorian I've been trying to play Beneath a Steel Sky for *years*, had it on the Amiga, PC... Think I even had it running on my Dreamcast at one point. I know I should like it but I never get more than an hour in - must try harder.

Oh! The Broken Sword games! They're good ☺

What's Tex Murphy like?

@CaptainKateCapsize
Tex Murphy is imo the only games that got FMV and adventure gaming absolutely right. Great sci-fi detective games. As for BASS, it's such a great mix of cyberpunk and British humor. Love that game to bits.

@SpaceQuestHistorian Yeah I can see it's good I just get stuck and don't cheat and then give up. I'm rubbish!

I think I played some FMV adventures on the Mega CD but they weren't much fun. I'll have to keep an eye out!

@CaptainKateCapsize
If MegaCD games are your benchmark, then I don't blame you for not giving FMV games a second chance. Take a look at The Pandora Directive, though. You don't need to have played the earlier games in the series, and it is brilliant. (It's also super cheap on GOG.com.)

@maloki
Cheers! I'll do that. What kind of games do you play on Twitch?

@SpaceQuestHistorian I've been doing variety. But had a bit of a break since October, my grandmother died and I kinda ran low on energy.
I've used streaming as an excuse to work though my steam library!

@maloki
Sorry to hear about your grandmother. I started doing YouTube because I wanted an excuse to play more games, and streaming soon followed as a natural extension.

@DenubisX
I haven't played either, but I know one of the dudes who wrote for Sunless Sea (Richard Cobbett) and the guys who made Quest for Infamy are good friends of mine. So I feel bad for not having played their games. ;)

@SpaceQuestHistorian Quest for Infamy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1dPRXZzrTA&list=PLkRm6EImStgBKjdRAL0ieM2QT8xtV7Nf9

Sunless sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCbfuwGPiR0&list=PLkRm6EImStgDZfFwHpCtt5VOHoQ4dmvXl

@SpaceQuestHistorian

Just as a starting point, say hi to @chemikhazi

@deejoe @SpaceQuestHistorian Oh! If you enjoy adventure games you might like what @camulust is doing!

@chemikhazi @deejoe @camulust does the lord's work, to be sure. Tasty, tasty doublewidth pixels!

@deejoe
Thanks for the tip! I have joined. I feel excited. ;)

@JubalBarca @SpaceQuestHistorian @ExilianOfficial I never know what to post on here though :)

@GoreMcSpace

Gubbins II: Attack of the Gubbins
Gubbins III: Revenge of the Gubbins
Gubbins IV: A NEW GUBBINS
Gubbins V: The Gubbins Strikes Back
Gubbins VI: RETURN OF THE GUBBINS

etc ad infinitum :)

(I feel there should be better dialect forms of all the above, but Norfolk is the only dialect I've got much hope of rendering properly).

@JubalBarca It's fine. I suspect there will never be a Gubbins II though, but if there is it will be called Gubbins II: The New Batch.

@GoreMcSpace Hm, yes... which reminds me, I still need to go back and get the rest of the achievements from the first episode.

@JubalBarca please use the guide. I need to work on a way of making achievement hunting a bit more fun cos omg just replaying it over and over in the hopes of stumbling across absolutely isn't it!

@JubalBarca Interesting game design challenge though. :)

@GoreMcSpace How/where be said guide?

I've got 5 left, of which 3 hidden (though it turns out you can find the names of the hidden achievements on Steam by looking at the overall leaderboard stats, which seems a bit odd). I think I have ideas of how to do 3 of the 5, the other 2 I've got no clue with.

@JubalBarca Steam->Yorkshire Gubbins Store Page->Discussions->Guides :)

@GoreMcSpace OK, I was on the right lines with all of them (except wood in't 'ole, which I hadn't had a clue about) :) Out of interest, why require the player to finish the game to get Born in a Barn (as opposed to just leaving all the doors open at once)?

@JubalBarca I think basically the idea is that it's a freebie that everyone gets just for finishing the game (as a rule), which then hints at what's required for Wood in t'ole because they have basically the same icon except one has an open door, the other a closed!

@JubalBarca The spirit of born in a barn though is that you've gone through and just willful left all the doors open without closing any of them (at the game's end) so... that'd be exactly why!

@GoreMcSpace Ohh... I did not get either in any of the runthroughs I've done so far, apparently I'm sitting on the door-conscientiousness fence too much!

@JubalBarca these cheevos came from watching the youngest member of the voice cast playing the game. She made a point of closing all the doors behind her so I thought: She needs an achievement for that. :)

@GoreMcSpace Also I re-did Verb School and I discovered that you can talk to the loot crate and I want to hear more from the loot crate now. :p

@JubalBarca "NO YOU DON'T"

@JubalBarca I'm sad I didn't add any achievements for Verb School but that was very much a last minute edition to the package so there just wasn't time. It would be ripe for them though!

@GoreMcSpace I was thinking that, though given how not-free-form Verb School is and how you have to listen to lots of chat again to re-do it, giving achievements for extra things you can do but aren't required to might just be a grind for achievement hunting...

@JubalBarca Yeah I think that's why I've not gone back to add them. I have some work to do to make achievement completion not just a total horror show in general.

@GoreMcSpace I don't think it's anything like a horror show at present - it's the sort of aspect one can always tweak with feedback, but it works fine already :)

@GoreMcSpace *edges towards custard pie dispenser in a vaguely threatening manner*

@JubalBarca So I've had the joy of seeing a few people discover the 'talk to loot crate' thing live and it's genuinely magical. The kids at the Yorkshire Games Festival who found it were genuinely fully enchanted, had to show their friends and stuff. Was probably the highlight of showing that there.

@JubalBarca This to me is the strength of the verb based approach, that opportunity to put neat stuff where you don't expect it. Hopefully whatever comes next will have more of that somehow, not less.

@GoreMcSpace Yes, definitely :)

@GoreMcSpace @JubalBarca @ExilianOfficial
My problem exactly, but hopefully with this new influx of likeminded people, I will grow to love it here.

@wion
I'm not an expert by any means. But I just came home from the #AdventureX convention in London which is an aweinspiring place to be if you're into narrative-driven games.

@SpaceQuestHistorian

I’m just looking for some easy reading up at this point. ;)

@wion
I saw this great article on puzzle design theory today. http://junk.dk/puzzle/

@lertsenem @dastridly
Thanks! Gave her a follow. Interactive Fiction is the granddaddy of adventure games. 😉

@lindar
Yeah, I was already pointed to the mastodon.gamedev.place instance where I have made a new home. But I'll stay here for a bit. ;)

@natecull
Also the puzzles and the incredibly tedious story. And pretty much everything else besides the Michael J. Fox impersonator (who was, admittedly, excellent).