This Week's Topic: Adventure Games!

 To celebrate the completion of Telltale's The Walking Dead series (games that are reinvigorating the adventure game genre) I'm going to be taking a look back on adventure games. If you were wondering what an "adventure game" really is, here's a definition from Adventure Gamers: 

Adventure games focus on puzzle solving within a narrative framework, generally with few or no action elements. Other popular names for this genre are “graphic adventure” or “point-and-click adventure”, but these represent only part of a much broader, diverse range of games.

Adventure games are not based on what the dictionary defines as “adventure”. Some are, but many forsake danger and excitement for more relaxed, thoughtful endeavours. They are also not: role-playing games that involve extensive combat, team-building and points management; action/adventures such as Uncharted and Prince of Persia where puzzle-solving is clearly a secondary focus; side-scrolling platform games such as Mario or LittleBigPlanet; pure puzzle games like Bejeweled or Tetris.

Enjoy the focus!