Ken Williams Interview

[Jun 10, 2012, 2:39 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Space Venture Interview of Ken Williams is a video of an audio chat with gaming legend Ken Williams. The conversation is intended to support the Two Guys SpaceVenture Kickstarter which is almost 90% funded with 48 hours to go. They discuss Ken and Roberta's retirement as they circumnavigate the globe, and go into the couple's rich contribution to the history of adventure gaming. The audio pops quite a bit, but is pretty clear otherwise. Just hit the bathroom before the link, as the unhurried conversation runs for more than an hour. Thanks nin.

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Re: Ken Williams Interview

Jun 10, 2012, 17:02

Dev

DangerDog wrote on Jun 10, 2012, 16:57: Good luck to their project, I don't have any interest in playing a game that uses recent sci-fi movies as parody material - mostly because they're all jokes to begin with. From Transformers, Star Wars Prequels to the Star Trek reboot. Interesting interview, for me Sierra adventure games took a huge nose dive when they got rid of the text parser and went 100% mouse click, and around that same time they went big on digitized graphics and did away with hand drawn scenes - the vga artifacts looked like ass. They are older guys, I'm sure they will parody older stuff as well as newer stuff. I didn't like the look of some of the VGA games like space quest 4, but when they did space quest 6, I thought it was a great improvement in looks. And when they went to FPS and did mask of eternity, yuck. Fortunately, the KQ series was the only one where they did that (and no, I don't count the SWAT series as PQ). Anyway, if you want to relive the text parser games, you are in luck. http://www.sarien.net/ That site has all the 1st games of the quest series (PQ, SQ, LSL, etc) in a browser based format (so no worrying about how to get them running with dosbox) and they are still parser based. Plus, they are setup so if you want, you can connect with others playing the game who are in the same room with you

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Jun 10, 16:57	Re: Ken Williams Interview	DangerDog
>>	2.	Jun 10, 17:02	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Dev
	3.	Jun 10, 22:11	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Yakubs
	4.	Jun 10, 22:41	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Silicon Avatar
	5.	Jun 10, 22:58	Re: Ken Williams Interview	DangerDog
	6.	Jun 11, 01:16	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Wowbagger_TIP
	7.	Jun 11, 02:31	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Silicon Avatar
	8.	Jun 11, 03:12	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Ray Ban
	9.	Jun 11, 03:42	Re: Ken Williams Interview	Jerykk