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INTERVIEW -In Conversation With Backwoods Entertainment (Creators of Unforeseen Incidents)

By Marty Mulrooney

Following on from Alternative Magazine Online’s recent review of Unforeseen Incidents – “one of the best point-and-click adventure games of recent years” – and an in-depth interview with charming lead voice actor Matthew Curtis, AMO is proud to present an exclusive online interview with the team of Backwoods Entertainment, the small indie development studio from Germany that created the game!

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GAME REVIEW – The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk (PC, iOS)

By Marty Mulrooney

The Inner World The Last Wind Monk

The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk is a hand drawn 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Studio Fizbin and published by Headup Games. The sequel to the award-winning adventure game The Inner World – which AMO described in its 2013 review as “the most pleasant surprise to come along within the adventure genre for a very long time indeed” – The Last Wind Monk continues the adventures of the flute-nose Robert, his best friend Laura and Peck the pigeon as they try to save the world of Asposia… again!

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GAME REVIEW – Milkmaid of the Milky Way (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a ’90s style point-and-click adventure game created by Norwegian indie developer Mattis Folkestad, aka Machineboy. Set on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920’s Norway, players take control of a lonely young milkmaid named Ruth. It’s a tough life of churning butter and cooking cheese to make ends meet. Then a mysterious golden spaceship turns up and steals all the cows…

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GAME REVIEW – Hoodwink (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

Hoodwink

Hoodwink is a cel-shaded point-and-click adventure game created by Kuala Lumpur based indie developer E-One Studio. Players take on the role of Michael Bezzle (M. Bezzle – get it?), an acquisitions expert – aka small time thief – who is trying to propose to his girlfriend in a futuristic city ruled by the all-powerful corporation Unicorp. Although it isn’t explicitly stated, Hoodwink is the first episode of an episodic series and is available exclusively on PC via EA’s Origin service.

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