Portfolio of Christopher Jewsbury
In this, the third Tex Murphy game, Tex makes the daring move to 3D! With all the advantages and disadvantages that comes with it.
Continue reading “Adventure Game Review: Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon”A really good video game is like a magic trick.
As players, we buy into the experience of a game with some expectations. The game has a hefty responsibility to meet those expectations. Depending on genre; a game acts as storyteller, teacher, challenge, tour guide, and reward. And in the best games, the developers are completely invisible until the credits.
But sometimes the illusion breaks. A disruption causes us to pull the problem out of the world of the game with exclamations of “What were they thinking?”.
I’ve taken to calling this phenomena DPD.
Continue reading “DPD: When Things Don’t Make Sense”After much pain and programming; I think I’m finally happy with my website look.
It’s not much in the grand scheme of things; but I think the wide align support and removing the blog sidebar from selected posts really cleans things up. Here’s to many posts in the future.
Sitting Duck will be a bullet hell, so it’s pretty important that everyone can see the bullets.
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You may have seen some mention of and work from my game, Sitting Duck. So what is it exactly and how is it going?
Continue reading “Sitting Duck: Catchup Dev Update”
I suppose if I’m going to write about and review Adventure Games; I should probably define what an Adventure Game actually is.
Continue reading “What IS an Adventure Game?”
I was in a Sci-Fi + Fantasy mood recently so I grabbed this promising title in my backlog. I had played through the The Longest Journey not too long ago and was looking forward to experiencing the dual worlds of Stark and Arcadia once more. (Some spoilers ahead)
Continue reading “Adventure Game Review: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey”
I was gifted Kona by a friend and was pleased to find that it also had DLC to play the game in VR. After picking that up; I settled in for a few hours of a Canadian mystery. (minimal spoilers ahead)
Continue reading “Adventure Game Review: KONA”