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NEW State of Adventure Gaming
The original State
of Adventure Gaming was a series of monthly columns intended to
point out the absurdities in both the adventure and the gaming community.
The NEW State of Adventure Gaming will be a series of articles/editorials
focusing on one subject and published on a sporadic basis. For previous
years' "State of"s, please see our Archives.
March
2009
July
2008
Adventure Seeker
Eye
Candy: What Are All Those Pretty Pictures For? by
Paul Crowley - April 2, 2004
Adventure
Seeker: The Avatar of Horror – Part II by
Paul Crowley - March 26, 2004
Adventure
Seeker: The Avatar of Horror – Part I by
Paul Crowley - March 12, 2004
Almost Adventure
Games that don't quite
fit the mold.
Almost
Adventure 2--Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island, Tropico,
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge
Almost
Adventure 3--Code Blue, Emergency Room: Disaster Strikes,
America, Project IGI: I'm Going In, Hitman: Codename 47, B17: The
Mighty 8th, Rainbow Six Collection, Star
Trek Away Team
Almost
Adventure 4--The Sting, Desperados, Dark Angel, and Max Payne
Alexander
Tait
Glidos
Cheating...
Why Not?
The Greatest
Adventure?
The
Chatter Box
by Adam Rodman
November
7, 2001
December
17, 2001
The
Game Guy by
Mark H. Walker
The
Miniatures Edition (Volume
#29, February 25, 2005)
The
“Consoles Win” Edition (Volume #28,
July 9, 2004)
The
“Small-time”
Edition (Volume #27)
The
“Back in the Saddle” Edition (Volume #26)
The
"Carlisle Holiday " Edition (Volume #25, November
1, 2002)
The "Racing Sim" Edition (Volume #24, October
4, 2002)
The "Action" Edition (Volume #23, September 6,
2002)
The "Role Playing" Edition (Volume #22, August
9, 2002)
The "Real-Time Strategy" Edition (Volume #21,
July 3, 2002)
The "Turn-by-Turn" Edition (Volume #20, June 21,
2002)
The
"Who Counts Polygons?" Edition (Volume #19, June
7, 2002)
The "How Long is Long Enough" Edition (Volume
#18, May 17, 2002)
The "Pick On Someone Your Own Size" Edition (Volume
#17, May 3, 2002)
The
"Where's my Game?" Edition (Volume #16, April
19, 2002)
The "Keep Your Online Gaming?" Edition (Volume
#15, April 2, 2002)
The
"Where's my Game?" Edition (Volume #14, April
2, 2002)
The "Law and Order and Government" Edition (Volume
#13, March 4, 2002)
The
"Does Anyone Play These Things?" Edition (Volume
#12, February 8, 2002)
The
Game Guy - (Volume #7, October 25, 2001)
The
Game Guy
- (Volume #8, November 19, 2001)
The
Game Guy
- (Volume #9, December 7, 2001)
The
Game Guy - (New Year's Just Adventure Edition, January 7,
2002)
The
Game Guy: The "Who Need's it?" Edition
The
Seriously Whacked Point of View by Jeff Strand
"Some
Babbling About Endings" - February 20, 2003
"Another
Kind of Game" - January 31, 2003
"
Me & My New Playstation 2" - January 17, 2003
"Passing the Buck, Part Two" - December 20, 2002
"Passing the Buck" - December 6, 2002
November 22, 2002
"Adventure
Game Mudslinging: Why Should Political Candidates Have All The Fun?"
- November 8, 2002
"Horror Movie Adventure Games That We Desperately Need"
- October 25, 2002
"An
Apology For the Last Column" October 11, 2002
"The Ultimate Adventure Game" September 27, 2002
"More
Stuff On Hints" September 13, 2002
"Good
Puzzle/Bad Puzzle" August 30, 2002
"Real
Life and Adventure Games"
August 16, 2002
"The Seriously Whacked Interactive Adventure!" June
28, 2002
"Psychoanalyzing
An Adventure Game Hero" June 14, 2002
"Star
Wars and Movie Magic" May 31, 2002
"Survivor:
The Interactive Nightmare" May 10, 2002
"An
Adventurer's Guide to Seeking Hints" April 26, 2002
"Cheapass Games" April 5, 2002
"The
Evolution of the Adventure Game, Part Four" March 15, 2002
"The Evolution of the Adventure Game, Part Three"
February 15, 2002
"The
Evolution of the Adventure Game, Part Two" (For Real This Time)
February 1, 2002
"The
Evolution of the Adventure Game, Part Two"
January 18, 2002
"The
Evolution of the Adventure Game, Part One"
January 4, 2002
December
14, 2001
Mark Ross
The
New Untapped Market
Living
on the Edge: Adventure Games vs. Real Life
E3
Ray
Ivey's Big Fat E3 2010 Report by
Ray Ivey (of course)
Ray's
Mini E3 Report 2007 by
Ray Ivey
E3 2006
E3
2006 by
Ray Ivey
E3
2006: Thanks for the Mammaries by Randy Sluganski
E3 2005
Ray
and Jennifer’s Excellent E3 Adventure
by Ray Ivey & Jennifer Miller
E3
2005: Highlights & Lowlifes by Randy Sluganski
Adventure
Games At The E3 2005 - An Exclusive Sneak Peak by
Randy Sluganski
E3 2004
E3
2004 JA Awards
JA
on The Radio
SAM N MAX 2: THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF THE 2004 E3 By
Randy Sluganski - May 19, 2004
Adventure Games at the E3 – An Exclusive Sneak Peak By
Randy Sluganski - May 7, 2004
E3 2003
E3
Adventure Report by Ray Ivey
RAY'S
OTHER E3 REPORT: THE BEST OF THE REST OF THE FEST by
Ray Ivey
E3
Awards presented by Randy Sluganski
E3 2002
Adventure
Games of the 2002 E3 by Randy Sluganski
E3
2002-The Adventure Genre's Last Hurrah by Randy Sluganski
E3
2002 by Ray Ivey
E3 2001
Ray's
Turn to Talk About E3 by Ray Ivey
Strange,
and Sometimes True, Tales from the E3 by Randy Sluganski
Just
Adventure's 2001 E3 Awards
JustASCII
+
Erik Reckase's column
covering interactive fiction and other nongraphical adventure games.
Part
1--Rogue
Part
2--Zork, Palm Pilots, and Other Interactive Fiction
Part
3--NetHack
Part 4--Zork I,
II, III Reviews
Part
5--Ancient Domains of Mystery
Part
6--Magical Infocom Adventures or "Is a Zorkmid the Root of Boll
Weevils?"
Part 7--The Many
Angbands
Part
8--Post-Infocom Interactive Fiction
Part
9--ZZT
Top 10 Lists
Top
10 Non-Adventure Games of All Time
Top
10 Tchotkes
10 Adventure Games for
Lovers
The 10 Best Adventure Games
That (Almost) No One Has Ever Played
Son of 10 Games
You Won't Believe
The 10 Biggest Turkeys
of All Time
10
Games You Won't Believe
The 10 Scariest
Games of All Time Updated!
I
Was a Teenage Adventure Gamer
Matthew Desmond, our
intern, gives us a teen's perspective on adventure gaming.
My
Newest Journey With Upward Bound
That
Time In Your Life....
The Evolution of Police Quest
Grim Fandango
vs. Blade Runner
Elite Force: A Shooter
That Plays Like an Adventure Game
Monkey
Island
Adventures
in Other Genres
What-If Adventure
Games
Prequels
I'd Like to See and a Little About Baldur's Gate
Presidential
Politics and How They Could Change the Future of the Gaming World
Asheron's
Call and Rune
No One Lives
Forever
Majestic
Books
to Movies to Games and Back
Upward Bound
Girl's
Got Game
Column
No. 1, November 2005
Column
No. 2, December 2005
Miscellaneous
Articles
Roger
That: Space Quest Lives -- in Four Fab Freeware Fan-Made Tributes
by
Greg Collins
Maupiti
Island by
Agustín Cordes
City
Interactive: Prufe Reader Wanted by
Greg Collins
Dark Fall: Lost Souls – Christmas Approaches: The 12 Days (and
Questions) of Dark Fall Developer Diary by
Jonathan Boakes
Darkness
Within: The Dark Lineage Developer's Diary by
Onur Samli
Slip
Space Developer's Journal by Dan Markosian
The
Most Desirable Inventory Item by Greg Collins
The
Road to the Big Apple is Paved With Good Intentions
by Randy Sluganski
James
Patterson, Jane Jensen & Just Adventure Walk Into a Bar Together…
by Randy Sluganski
What
about BOB? Notes on Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
by Greg Collins
Dream
Day Developer Diary By
Cara Ely, Senior Producer - Oberon Games
We
Have Met the Enemy... And He is Us by
Eric McConnell
Okay
So Far by Peter Rasmussen
How
to Solve a Slider Puzzle by
Greg Collins
The
Making of Stolen Life by Director Peter
Rasmussen
The
Grand Evolution of Myst as
presented by GameTap
How
to Get Unstuck in an Adventure Game by
Greg Collins
The
Cast of Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Murder
Party on the Orient Express by Randy Sluganski
Is
Flash the Future of the Adventure Game? by
Greg Collins
Until
Uru, the semi-living remains of Uru Live
by Robert Washburne
Paradise
- Notes from Benoit Sokal
Graphic
Classics: Mind Candy for the Adventure Gamer by Randy
Sluganski
"Al
Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine" & and Other REAL Life
Adventures by Britney Brimhall
Violence
& Ratings & Regs - Oh My! by Karla Munger
Pinhead
Games - Mark Darin Feature by Randy Sluganski
Meet
the 'Quest for Glory' Coles by Britney Brimhall and
Christopher Warren
Rand
Miller Speaks About Myst V: End of Ages
Eli’s
Software Encyclopedia by Randy Sluganski
The
Wonderful World of Hybrids by Ray Ivey
Did Graphics Kill
the Adventure Genre? Responses by Howard
Sherman of Malinche Entertainment & Scorpia
Adventures
in Education - Myst as a Teaching Tool
The
Battle Between Ubisoft & EA Spills Into The Adventure Community
As Ubisoft Acquires Mc2-Microids by Randy Sluganski
The
MOTTA (Misappropriation of the Term Adventure) Awards 2004 by
Agustin Cordes
10
Adventure Games for Lovers by Randy Sluganski
A
Brief - But Comprehensive - History of the Action/Adventure Genre
by Aya
Boing!
- How to play old Amiga games on your PC! by Aya
Egypt's
Ancient Mysteries - The Tobler's New Project By Randy
Sluganski
Nomen:
The Making Of A Computer Game by Jakob Steen Madsen
The
Many Worlds of Sentinel - A Pictorial
The
Nintendo GameBoy, Kid’s Stuff: Right? by Ray
Ivey
3D
or Not 3D: That is the Question - Opinion Piece by
Ben Bowen
The
Moment of Silence - Developer Diary: Graphics & FMV
JA
Exclusive! MC2-Microids Lays-Off Employees - Still Life Development
Not Affected
The
differences and similarities between the Jules Verne novel and Return
to Mysterious Island
After
the Flood: Atlantis in Adventure Games Edited by
Randy Sluganski
Nancy
Drew: A Retrospective by Randy Sluganski
The
Perfect Adventure Game by Robert Washburne
Arrgh,
Matey: Pirate Games Explode Online
Law
& Order: The Mystery of Success Edited by Randy Sluganski
Tony
Tough in A Rake's Progress - Developer's Journal by
Stefano Gualeni
Myst
Revelations Exhibit @ Dali Museum by SquarejawHero
ECTS/EGN/GameStarsLive
- An Almost Live Report by Red Egnes
Agatha
Christie Writer Hired for First Game in Series!
The
Quest For the Rest Catchy New Online Game
Developer's
Cafe - Chat With Steve Ince
Uru
Live -
Musings on a World Gone by Laura MacDonald
Midnight
Nowhere Causing a Stir in the U.K. by Randy Sluganski
A
JA WORLD EXCLUSIVE - JANE JENSEN ON GRAY MATTER, OBERON MEDIA &
BOOBY-TRAP By Randy Sluganski
What
I Hate About Computer Games by
Chris Bowdoin - March 24, 2004
Portable
Gaming by David Dolan - February 26, 2004
Rand
Miller Online Chat
(ALMOST)
LIVE FROM THE ECTS By Guest Columnist Jonathan Boakes
SYBERIA
ON THE XBOX Article by
Randy Sluganski
SHUT
UP! Article by Ray Ivey
Ray
Ivey's 2002 Movie Review
Current
State of Adventure Gaming by John Florez, January
28, 2003
The
Way It Used To Be- Part 2 by Johnny Wilson (former editor Computer
Gaming World)
The
Way It Used To Be by Johnny Wilson (former editor Computer Gaming
World)
Unfinished
Games by Agustin Cordes, November 27, 2002
3D
Graphics Trends by Michal Necasek, October 30,
2002
Syberia
- A Love Song by Laura MacDonald
An
Adventurer Looks at 40.... by Cindy Kyser
Dreamcatcher
Confirms Rumors! - January 14, 2002
Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Gabriel Knight but Were Afraid to Ask
BROKEN
SWORD: SHADOW OF THE TEMPLARS FOR GAMEBOY ADVANCE - SCREENSHOTS &
INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES CECIL
Game Design
Who're
You Gonna Call?
HEY
LOOK WHO'S BACK - IT'S CURLY!!
Look
What They've Done to My Game, Ma! King's Quest Gets a Facelift
Audrey Wells takes
a look at the issues surrounding the recent fan remake of Kings
Quest 1.
In the Land of the Lotus
Eaters
Mr. Sunshine's periodic
look at all that is positive in the world of adventure gaming.
February
2001
What's
in a Name?
Adam Rodman tells
us what goes into choosing a game company name.
The
Gods and Goddesses of Adventure Games or My Visit to Dreamcatcher
Randy talks about
the people and products of Dreamcatcher.
Simon
3D Shocker!
Shopping
Hell by Dawn Johnson
The
Greatest Ending Ever
Award-winning author
and adventure gamer Jeff Strand talks about that moment of revelation
that we've all experienced.
The
Adventure Gamer Speaks Out
Randy responds to
selected reader comments from our March 2001 survey.
Enough!
An Open Letter to the Editor of Computer Gaming World
Why no adventure category
for CGW's game of the year?
Just Adventure in Paris
Part
1
Randy's overall impressions
of his trip to Paris to meet with Cryonetworks.
Part
2
Talks about some of
the Cryonetworks people and their plans for the future.
Just
Adventure Presents: 2000—The Year in Review
Not your average awards
article.
My
Trip Back to Myst Island
Guest writer
James Korwek gives his impressions of realMyst in this travelogue-style
piece.
How
About Some Cheese with That Whine?
Randy's observations
on the marketing practices of major developers.
Not
Quite Dead Yet--Adventure Games on the N64
Mike Schwab
tells us about recently released and upcoming games for this console
system.
Almost
Live from the ECTS
Special correspondent
Penelope Picklebrine talks about adventure games at the 2000 ECTS,
the London counterpart of the E3.
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