Adventure Lantern Issue (April 2012)

The April 2012 edition of Adventure Lantern is available for download. You can get your copy from www.adventurelantern.com on the right-hand side of our home page.

This month I brought you another hefty news roundup with information about upcoming adventure games. We also have an interview with Bryan Wiegele on the Kickstarter project for Delaware St. John episode 4. Our reviews include J.U.L.I.A., Dead Cybord, Puzzle Agent 2, Amnesia, Limbo, and Cthulhu Saves the World. From me, Gnome, and Nick.

Delaware St. John 4: Asylum of The Lost Kickstarter

We have an exclusive interview with the developer over at Adventure Lantern.
You can check it out here: http://www.adventurelantern.com/previews/Delaware4/Delaware4.htm

Adventure Lantern Issue (February 2012)

The latest issue of Adventure Lantern has just be published. This issue is issue is chock full of unique games from both me and a long time contributor Gnome (of gnomeslair.com) as well as being the first issue in a while to feature a News section.

I wrote three articles including one for the Kheops adventure Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy; The absurd adventure Eye of the Kraken; And the wonderfully unique Process. Gnome reviewed the civilization sim Fate of the World.

PROTECT IP / SOPA

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix that won't work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Adventure Lantern Issue (January 2012)

This months Adventure Lantern issue has just gone live. In this issue, in addition to co-editing, I sadly provided all of the reviews. But don't worry, we do have have more authors lined up for the future.

This time around, there are quite a few interesting articles. Most notably, an adaptation of a personal favourite of mine, Murder in the Abbey; A murder mystery set in a medieval Italian abbey and based on the novel The Name of the Rose. But surly the better adventure game, What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time also made it into this issue; And what a fabulous, overlooked, piece of adventure gaming this title most definitely is. I also got around to including the, disappointing, casual adventure Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign, and to show that casual games are not all bad we have the beautiful The Tiny Bang Story in there as well.