Game Makers Toolkit | Point and Click Puzzle Design @GMTK | Uploaded August 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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Point and click adventures get a bad rap. Their loopy logic puzzles often come under fire for being incomprehensible and unfair. So lets look at how adventures can employ more responsible design - to stop you racing towards GameFAQs.
Sources
Wired: "Broken Age brings back a classic feature: unfair puzzles"
wired.com/2015/04/broken-age-act-2-puzzles
Old Man Murray: "Death of Adventure Games"
oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Find out more
Innuendo Studios: "Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood?"
youtube.com/watch?v=xOPiSYUSrQ0
RagnarRox: "Blade Runner - Looking back with Louis Castle"
youtube.com/watch?v=D623rBiAVX0
Grumpy Gamer: "Why Adventure Games Suck"
grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck
Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance):
Broken Age (Double Fine Productions, 2014)
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (Sierra Entertainment, 1999)
Discworld (Teeny Weeny Games, 1995)
King's Quest (Sierra On-Line, 1983)
Grim Fandango (LucasArts, 1998)
Full Throttle (LucasArts, 1995)
Antichamber (Demruth, 2013)
The Longest Journey (Funcom, 1999)
Day of the Tentacle (LucasArts, 1993)
The Secret of Monkey Island (LucasArts, 1990)
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Sierra Entertainment, 1993)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (LucasArts, 1992)
Machinarium (Amanita Design, 2009)
Riven: The Sequel to Myst (Cyan Worlds, 1997)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (LucasArts, 1991)
The Inner World (Studio Fizbin, 2013)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Telltale Games, 2008)
Gemini Rue (Joshua Nuernberger, 2011)
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Funcom, 2006)
Thimbleweed Park (Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, 2017)
Resonance (XII Games, 2012)
Technobabylon (Technocrat Games, 2015)
The Last Express (Smoking Car Productions, 1997)
Blade Runner (Westwood Studios, 1997)
Armikrog (Pencil Test Studios, 2015)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Revolution Software, 1996)
Dropsy (A Jolly Corpse, 2015)
Music used in this episode:
Overthinker, Lifeformed (Double Fine Adventure)
Locked Boxes, Lifeformed (Double Fine Adventure)
Gameboy Tune (Machinarium)
Forest Spirit Friends, Lifeformed and Vidboy (Groupees Game Music Bundle)
Cider, Lifeformed (Double Fine Adventure)
Lifeformed - lifeformed.bandcamp.com
Vidboy - vidboy.bandcamp.com
Clip credits:
"MacGyver - Parabolic Mirror" - CBS
youtube.com/watch?v=H4hzM1AX8iM
"Let's Play: Riven, Fire marbles" - Dilandau3000
youtube.com/watch?v=8-38Ye6ytyI
"Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Part 8" - Natenator77
youtube.com/watch?v=Zou9hQFCypw
"Lets Play! Blade Runner, Part 1" - Vyakros
youtube.com/watch?v=o9pe-KPywa4
Contribute translated subtitles - amara.org/v/C3BFr
🔴 Get bonus content by supporting Game Maker’s Toolkit - gamemakerstoolkit.com/support 🔴
Point and click adventures get a bad rap. Their loopy logic puzzles often come under fire for being incomprehensible and unfair. So lets look at how adventures can employ more responsible design - to stop you racing towards GameFAQs.
Sources
Wired: "Broken Age brings back a classic feature: unfair puzzles"
wired.com/2015/04/broken-age-act-2-puzzles
Old Man Murray: "Death of Adventure Games"
oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Find out more
Innuendo Studios: "Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood?"
youtube.com/watch?v=xOPiSYUSrQ0
RagnarRox: "Blade Runner - Looking back with Louis Castle"
youtube.com/watch?v=D623rBiAVX0
Grumpy Gamer: "Why Adventure Games Suck"
grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck
Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance):
Broken Age (Double Fine Productions, 2014)
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (Sierra Entertainment, 1999)
Discworld (Teeny Weeny Games, 1995)
King's Quest (Sierra On-Line, 1983)
Grim Fandango (LucasArts, 1998)
Full Throttle (LucasArts, 1995)
Antichamber (Demruth, 2013)
The Longest Journey (Funcom, 1999)
Day of the Tentacle (LucasArts, 1993)
The Secret of Monkey Island (LucasArts, 1990)
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Sierra Entertainment, 1993)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (LucasArts, 1992)
Machinarium (Amanita Design, 2009)
Riven: The Sequel to Myst (Cyan Worlds, 1997)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (LucasArts, 1991)
The Inner World (Studio Fizbin, 2013)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Telltale Games, 2008)
Gemini Rue (Joshua Nuernberger, 2011)
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Funcom, 2006)
Thimbleweed Park (Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, 2017)
Resonance (XII Games, 2012)
Technobabylon (Technocrat Games, 2015)
The Last Express (Smoking Car Productions, 1997)
Blade Runner (Westwood Studios, 1997)
Armikrog (Pencil Test Studios, 2015)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Revolution Software, 1996)
Dropsy (A Jolly Corpse, 2015)
Music used in this episode:
Overthinker, Lifeformed (Double Fine Adventure)
Locked Boxes, Lifeformed (Double Fine Adventure)
Gameboy Tune (Machinarium)
Forest Spirit Friends, Lifeformed and Vidboy (Groupees Game Music Bundle)
Cider, Lifeformed (Double Fine Adventure)
Lifeformed - lifeformed.bandcamp.com
Vidboy - vidboy.bandcamp.com
Clip credits:
"MacGyver - Parabolic Mirror" - CBS
youtube.com/watch?v=H4hzM1AX8iM
"Let's Play: Riven, Fire marbles" - Dilandau3000
youtube.com/watch?v=8-38Ye6ytyI
"Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Part 8" - Natenator77
youtube.com/watch?v=Zou9hQFCypw
"Lets Play! Blade Runner, Part 1" - Vyakros
youtube.com/watch?v=o9pe-KPywa4
Contribute translated subtitles - amara.org/v/C3BFr
