Season V, Episode 10: I Am Delighted to Say I Had Absolutely Nothing to Do With “Custer’s Revenge”

Staying motivated in the games industry must sometimes be hard. Especially if you were an adventure game developer in the late 90s and being told that your beautifully hand-painted 2D game had to change into an ugly, polygonal mess before any publishers would so much as deign a glance in its direction. Charles Cecil lived

Continue reading Season V, Episode 10: I Am Delighted to Say I Had Absolutely Nothing to Do With “Custer’s Revenge”

Staying motivated in the games industry must sometimes be hard. Especially if you were an adventure game developer in the late 90s and being told that your beautifully hand-painted 2D game had to change into an ugly, polygonal mess before any publishers would so much as deign a glance in its direction.

Charles Cecil lived through all of this and somehow manages to keep his spirits up. In fact, seemingly effortlessly so.

If you are unfamiliar with Revolution Software, let me give you a quick up-to-speeder:

Besides this chilling visage of disaster, Revolution Software also brought you titles such as Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky, and In Cold Blood. In fact, thanks to their flagship series, Broken Sword, they are regularly mentioned alongside the ruling kings of the graphic point-and-click era, Sierra and LucasArts.

Charles founded Revolution Software and has a hands-on approach in everything they do, and still seems to have the same jubilant approach to it as he did when the company first saw the light of day back in 1990.

Our goal with having Charles on the show was quite simply to talk about, once again, the state of the industry — but this time from the perspective of someone who has been there from the start, all the way up through the glory days of the early 90’s, the terrible slump of the late 90’s and early 2000’s, up to the resurgence of the adventure game genre from 2012 onwards.

Sadly, due to scheduling conflicts and possibly gonorrhea, Gareth was unable to join us for this chat. But, while there are no dubious sound board clips of Dutch porn this time, there’s still more than enough English quips and polite mannerisms to go around, owing to our interview subject’s joyful demeanor.

Please enjoy this unfold on ye olde YubTubs:

Or in audio form below the post.

Only one more regular episode to go for this season, and after that we are reviving an old tradition of inviting as many people as can possible fit into one voice chatroom and trying to keep them from talking over each other. Yes, we’re bringing back the End-of-Season Roundtable! Stay tuned for all of this in the coming two weeks.