Adventure Game News for 22 Jun 05

Telltale reveal business plan

This press release from Telltale Games reveals the company's business plan: release a free "demo" of a game which you can unlock and buy on-line, then release further, self-contained episodes of the same game that also drive the story forward. This system of delivery was first used in AGON.

Adventure Game round-up

A bunch of quick news:

Five Magical Amulets is a freely downloadable point-and-click adventure from Off Studio.
Herculean Effort have released a deluxe version of their game Apprentice.
There is a (german-language) demo of one of the several projects known as Zak McKracken 2.
A demo of RHEM 2 is available.
Delaware St. John is a new series of adventures from Bigtime Games. A demo of episode 1 is now available.
And finally, Absurdus' game Eye of the Kraken is now available for free as the team works on a brand-new game.