Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I’ve mentioned previously on here that things were quiet because of stress from everything in the world so I won’t go into that here. I just learned that I can actually talk about the point-and-click adventure I’ve been working on though, so lets focus on that instead.

I am making a free point-and-click adventure called Dr. Chase’s Adventure for the Ann Arbor District Library. It is for the city’s bicentennial and is part of a mini anthology along with two other games. I am so happy I got to help organize this project and I’m very proud of this game. Dr. Chase is a local Ann Arbor figure who is kinda sorta the Dr. Oz of his time, meaning a “doctor” who is also a scam artist. He was an incredibly weird guy who found success selling his book of recipes until he had the feeling he was going to die soon and sold everything, including his printing press. It turns out he was completely fine and tried to make a comeback and failed. My game is more focused on the beginning of his journey and is about how he’s trying to help a patient with her in-grown toenail, and the game will use his real recipes as puzzle solutions. You can read more about the man here and his recipe book here. Here’s a very short video of the game:

I believe the game should be coming out in December. I’ve learned so much from doing this project and it should mean you’ll see more adventure games from me in the future. I may or may not have mentioned that I’ve been working on an adventure game using clay on here, I definitely did on social media, but that should move pretty quickly once this game is shipped since I now know how to use Adventure Game Studio. The game itself is already designed and the art for a few rooms has been completed as well, so I’m hoping it won’t take too long for that one to ship either.

In addition to these two games, I’m hoping to compile all my indie game roundups for 2003 in a format that’s much more readable. This will be a free PDF. I just think it would be a fun thing to have on Itch and maybe bring more attention on games I enjoyed playing that year.

I also liked writing a review of Deja Vu yesterday so expect more games reviews to pop up on here. I have a ton of reviews of FMV games from a book I thought about writing, but I may as well just put them on here and I can always compile them later like the Digital Antiquarian or whatever. I also want to move reviews from Backloggd to here because I don’t enjoy using that site and want it someone more permanent anyway. It’s also just nice to compile my thoughts on a thing after playing it.

Finally, the last thing I want to post here are the remaining pictures from the CompStoreVisuals account on Cohost before that permanently shuts down. It’s all on Mastodon too but again, I want it all on something more permanent.