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Adventure Game News for May 2009

News from the world of adventure games, both text adventures and graphic adventures, for May 2009.

04 May 09

• Gobliiins 4 now available as demo, $20 download
• Myst is now on the iPhone and iPod Touch for $5.99
• Congratulations to Jim Aikin, whose game "Flustered Duck" won Spring Thing 2009

05 May 09

• Wallace and Gromit in The Last Resort, ep 2 of Telltale Games's adventure gam...
• Nels Anderson theorizes that adventure games suffered from poor readability

07 May 09

• Nels Anderson discussed how to make adventure games more readable
• Andrew Plotkin's Penguincon talk on rules-based programming and Inform 7

08 May 09

• New game by the authors of Tex Murphy
• Andy Phillips returns with a new work of IF, "Inside Woman, Interactive Corpo...
• Telltale co-founder/CEO Dan Connors discusses how they make episodic adventur...

11 May 09

• Still got a copy of Myst Online around and don't know what to do? Play offlin...

13 May 09

• Ron Gilbert discusses how DeathSpank is blending adventure and RPG elements

14 May 09

• Get any one episode of any one Telltale game for $5 using this code: 3XD-EYS-...

15 May 09

• Strong Bad and Sam & Max seasons 50% off on Steam until May 18
• "Adventure Quest", a play based on 80s games such as King's Quest opens in Ju...

16 May 09

• Casebook Episode 0, a 250 MB free "demo" of the Casebook FMV/Hidden Object ga...

17 May 09

• Harvester Games' Downfall

20 May 09

• Monkey Island coming to Xbox 360? Others? New? Old? Who knows
• Juhana Leinonen opens a new beta-testing site for IF authors and testers
• The IF zine SPAG

24 May 09

• Thanks, Adventure-Treff: Big Fish Games drops several adventure download pric...

26 May 09

• Blackwell Cartoon Shorts by Dave Gilbert