Solving adventures – Methods

Since I don’t have any current topics, it’s probably a good time to continue showing you chapters from my unfinished adventure book. In its current form, this chapter follows directly after the introduction. I’ve fleshed it out a little for this post, but the next one is not yet written, so who knows what will […]

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Solving adventures – introductory chapter

About twenty years ago, I started writing an essay about solving adventure games that quickly evolved into a book when the scope grew and grew while I was structuring it. It never approached any semblance of a finished book, but I always kept working on it. At the moment, I’m not sure if it will […]

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SUC-SESSION Adventure-Ecke

(This is about a German magazine, so it’s in German. Update: but there’s also an English version.) Gerade habe ich erfahren, dass vor ein paar Wochen Ausgabe 234 des Magazins SUC-SESSION herausgekommen ist. In dieser Ausgabe erscheint auch erstmals meine „Adventure-Ecke“, in der ich aktuelle Adventurespiele für den ZX Spectrum bespreche (diesmal: The Quest for […]

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Some reflections

On 4 December, Vintrospektiv celebrated its 2nd birthday. While I am happy with the new direction my life has taken, and ultimately with the decision to end Vintrospektiv as my main job, I couldn’t help but wonder (as I sometimes do) what I could have done differently. I still believe that there is simply not […]

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