Links to the past

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

Other links

• The classic Gold Box D&D games are on Steam, but what's special about them? (20 April 2022)
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has aged like fine wine (11 April 2022) Returning to Troika's cult classic RPG, and the unofficial patch that makes it worth playing.
• Mask of the Rose is a murder mystery with a living victim, and a dating sim where you can stay single (10 February 2022) Perfectly normal for Fallen London.
• Star Wars Galaxies was an MMO that almost changed the world (4 May 2021) The rise and fall of an MMO with limitless potential

• 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)
• The complete history of Fallout (4 April 2019)
• Rediscovering the brilliance of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (2 April 2019)
• EverQuest is 20 years old, and people are still playing (18 March 2019)
• Breaking the internet: The story of EverQuest, the MMO that changed everything (15 March 2019) How a group of nobodies came together to create the game that defined a genre
• 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)
• Number Punchers: How Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest handle combat math (4 October 2018)
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Remains One Of Gaming's Best Worlds (26 September 2018)
• The history of hit points (18 July 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)
• The making of Undertale (5 May 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)
• Full Throttle Remastered: Curating a Classic (15 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)
• The afterimage of Final Fantasy VII (7 January 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)
• Video: Understanding the successful relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV (14 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)
• Roundtable: The Interactive Fiction Renaissance (14 March 2013)
• Gamasutra: Alex Warren's Blog - Text Adventures Are New. Really! (29 January 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)
• From The Past To The Future: Tim Sweeney Talks: really long interview (25 May 2009)
• this isn't a book; it's a time machine (11 March 2009)