Links to the past

Highlights

Favorite games:

• Path of Adventure
• The Great Hero's Cat
• EverDelve, A Game by Shuriken Games
• Heroine Dusk - An Adventure by Clint Bellanger
• The Quest For The Rest – Amanita Design

Books about RPGs:

• The CRPG Book Project: Sharing the History of Computer Role-Playing Games
• An interview with Felipe Pepe – The CRPG Book
• Fighting Fantasy Project - Online Gamebooks

Mainstream publications:

• PC Gamer: The global authority on PC games
• Game Developer: The Art and Business of Making Games

Visual novel development:

• arimia: a VN developer's blog with lots of useful advice
• VN Dev Wiki: just what it says on the tin

Other links

• Replicating Blade Runner (22 October 2020): Why the adventure game classic is so tough to remaster.
• JRPG Study Time: Dragon Quest I Provides Immersion Through Simplicity (22 May 2020)
• How World of Warcraft has evolved with the Internet (10 May 2020)
• Stardew Valley at HG101 (5 March 2020)
• Final Fantasy 7 – how Square made one of the most important and influential RPGs of all time (31 January 2020)

• Steve Purcell (Sam & Max creator/Pixar) – Interview (20 September 2019)
• How World of Warcraft Was Made (22 July 2019)
• Monsters and Manuals: Size and the Inert Sandbox (July 2019)
• EverQuest is 20 years old, and people are still playing (18 March 2019)
• Interactive Fiction in the UK (February 2019)

• Found In Translation (12 December 2018)
• The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (at the Digital Antiquarian) (12 October 2018)
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Remains One Of Gaming's Best Worlds (26 September 2018)
• ArenaNet throw two Guild Wars 2 writers to the wolves (6 July 2018)
• Belonging Outside of Belonging: Avery Alder’s Dream Askew (7 June 2018)
• Make Good Choices: A Guide to Decisions in Videogames (13 January 2018)

• The Story of D&D Part One: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons (26 December 2017)
• Syberia (at HG101) (23 November 2017)
• The making of Alpha Protocol: Obsidian's secret best RPG (6 September 2017)
• Nier: Automata – how a ‘weird game for weird people’ became a sleeper hit (4 May 2017)

• RPG Codex Interview: Chris Avellone at Digital Dragons 2016 (5 June 2016)
• Dungeon crawler making of (16 December 2015)
• Divinity: Original Sin developer hides giveaway in EULA fine print (October 2015)

• Five Destructive Myths Perpetuated by Roleplaying Games (15 November 2014)
• Mongooses, Cockatrices, Magic Plants and the Evolution of a Story (22 July 2014)
• The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic (April 2014)

• Lost to the Ages "Myst was supposed to change the face of gaming. What is its legacy 20 years later?" (24 September 2013)
• This is how the cover art of Dungeon Master (1987) was made (September 2013)
• AdventureDex: A Conversation about the State of the Adventure Genre (9 September 2013)
• Warren Spector's Commandments of Game Design (4 September 2013)
• What Damage Means (18 July 2013) alternatives to killing the player character in a tabletop RPG; applies just as well to videogames
• Reanimated: The story of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (10 July 2013)

• The Lords of Midnight for iPhone: an interview with creator Chris Wild (20 December 2012)
• Imagery! A Computerized Role-Playing Adventure System, Part 2 (21 November 2012)
• Imagery! A Computerized Role-Playing Adventure System, Part 1 (30 September 2012)
• RPG Codex Retrospective Interview: Jon Van Caneghem on Might and Magic (18 August 2012)
• How to write a free RPG - Chapter 4: Setting (January 2012)
• this isn't a book; it's a time machine (11 March 2009)