Encounter was released on December 20th 2024, about one year ago.

The game was not originally supposed to be a commercial release, but we had discussed for a while the feasibility of making commercial games for the Oric, so I decided to try that for Encounter!

Let's see how it has gone with some numbers and graphics for you.

My team of tester friends have been reporting issues for the last few weeks, and I've been busy fixing them.

Nothing impacts more a project than wasted time, and nothing impacts more the quality of the work than the iteration time between when something is changed and when you finally see it in the final game.

When it comes to text adventures and point-and-click games, less is often more. In this article I look at how adventure game interfaces evolved from complex natural language parsers to simple contextual actions, and why I chose a minimalist approach for Encounter.

When I started playing adventure games back in the 80ies, there were basically two types of game implementations:

• Games written as actual programs
• Games using some portable virtual machine or database
  

When I started working on the Encounter upgrade project, I received equal parts of interest and also deep interrogations. With this article I hope giving some context and make my motivations clearer!