One way to look at point-and-click games is that they’ve become a lesser genre since they hit big in the 1990s. Another way to look at them is that, in modern gaming, they’ve evolved into and combined with different genres, from adventure and puzzle games, to “find and search” experiences and walking simulators. I’ve long…
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The Procession to Calvary has its ups and downs but mostly gets it just right
I’m not very good at keeping up with Game Pass games, so when I caught wind of The Procession to Calvary‘s imminent departure from the service, I’d no clue if it had been there for months or weeks. Regardless, I jumped on the opportunity just in time to catch the game. Thankfully, it was short…
Unforgettable: The Interactive Intro of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
When I first started playing video games in earnest, words like “Atari” and “arcade” were commonplace. “Nintendo” and “Mario” soon followed, and with them came a chasm-like leap in video game technology. After spending countless hours with relatively simple (but not simplistic) games like Pole Position and Defender, I was utterly wowed by what would…
Gaming Rediscoveries via Sam and Max Hit the Road
Earlier this week on our YouTube channel, I posted the first video in my Let’s Play of Sam & Max Hit the Road. In short, this is a point-and-click game released by LucasArts in 1993. It contains the titular characters of Sam, an anthropomorphic dog, and Max, a “hyperkinetic rabbity thing,” both freelance police/detectives/good at…
5 Point and Click games on mobile
Due to the popularity of apps on your mobile device point and click games have seen a resurgence. These games are easily developed for a mobile device since almost all of them are tough screens now. Since point and click games are easier to use on a touchscreen device it only makes sense that many would be developed exclusively for mobile. Some of these games have full, compelling episodic stories while others are simple dynamic level games.