143: The Rebirth of Point & Click Adventure Games with Paul Conway - The Retro Hour EP143

Our guest this week is Paul Conway who has worked on titles like Theme Park and The Sims and recently Darkside Detective, we talk about the rebirth of point & click adventure games in the 21st century and the joys and challenges of making them today.

Darkside Detective: http://darksidedetective.com/

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PLAY Expo Blackpool: https://www.playexpoblackpool.com/

RCM Christmas party: http://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5946.0

Show notes:

Watch Ravi's Simon The Sorcerer Live Stream: https://youtu.be/MnAwv0TzWJQ?t=559

RIP Ben Daglish:

Mark 'TDK' Knight tribute: https://youtu.be/-LWUA5mylvo

C64 Audio tribute download: https://bit.ly/2ytFajQ

The Retro Hour Episode 17 with Ben Daglish: https://audioboom.com/posts/6977717-the-retro-hour-episode-17-c64-music-with-ben-daglish

Blockbuster printing their own carts: https://bit.ly/2NSrcm6

Sega Terradrive: https://bit.ly/2QKNqTX

Internet archive releases full c64 collection: https://bit.ly/2RGv8od

Archiving early popup ads: https://bit.ly/2IPGceS