The AGS blog: November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

Feedburn baby burn

I'm sure you're all dying to know my feedburner stats for the site RSS feed, and here we are (from March 2009):

21,133 views of 331 items
4,493 clicks back to the site on 227 items

Item Popularity

Name	Views	Clicks
Release... but don't let go!	131	35
Video revived the Monkey Island fan	128	33
Another of those "Adventures are/aren't…	129	30
Going Postal	126	29
All about AGS	127	28
Duck and cover	122	33
What is readability anyway?	127	28
Interview Part 5: Ponch	121	34
Au-to-mated Affection	130	24
Some AGS web snippets	120	33
Fish Unbound	128	25
Interesting bits from other blogs	124	28
Polls aint what they used to be	122	29
The Gabriel Knight has a thousand eyes.…	118	32

Igor is interviwed by his blog

A self-sentient blog? Wow. Anyway, interview is here.

I wonder...

Monkey Island and Telltale fans will enjoy new release
IWWHIIWWHITOMIROTPG: The Game!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Review the Story

Adventure Classic Gaming reviews the first Enter The Story game, Les Miserables, and gives it a mixed reception.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Game #304

Not sure he's quite released 304 games yet, but Ben has announced that a new one is coming shortly... I wonder if any AGS Awards categories will be ENTIRELY populated with his games next year...?

November MAGS voting open

The voting for the 4 ace-looking games in November's MAGS competition has opened. Download them all and choose your favourite.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Free Wisdom, get it now

Over at hardydev, Ben shares his infinite wisdom again.

Mines Free

Woohoo, Cosmos Quest III has been made freeware. Go and download it now before he changes his mind!

So, here's a list of countries that have never visited this blog:

Yemen
Suriname
Guyana
French Guiana
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Afghanistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Burma
Cambodia
Bhutan
Nepal
Papua New Guinea
North Korea

And large parts of Central Africa... so come on, tell your friends who live in these countries to visit this blog!

MM3D

Interesting snippet at GameSetWatch on Maniac Mansion 3D remake.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

It's a bit too AV for me to carry

The AV club have reviewed the Marionette

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Vince Able

For more see, Vince's blog

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Take directions

Hardydev has some hints on how to visually direct the player. Meanwhile, all the AGSers are going off to write for OTHER awesome blogs. No fair. :(

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

D-reviews

While we're in Captain D-land, he did some reviews last week:

Featherweight
Marionette
The Energizer

Post 701: Marionterview

Marionette author auriond is interviewed over at Captain D's blog.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Normal service resumes

Apologies for the lack of updates... I was on my hols at Disneyland Paris with the family and forgot to ask Dual or Leon to hold the fort. Anyway, while I've been away, this fabulous postmortem of the making of Blackwell Convergence came up on Gamasutra.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Delayed gravity

Well, I'm waaay to late with the Pick of the Month update, sorry folks, but this month its Star Trek Newton that grabs you by the dilithium crystals and warps your phasers.