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Matt Latham, alongside the odd guest, delves into the world of Point and Click adventure games and their legacy in ASK US ABOUT LOOM.
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Pat from Passion of the Geeks is back! This time to finish the conversation that threatened to derail the talk about King's Quest IV: talking about King's Quest VI! Pat and Matt talk about why they love it, it's story and Jane Jensen and the puzzle design. And yes, they also do talk about The Girl In the Tower as well....
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Pat (Passion of the Geeks)
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Seoirse Dunbar from the Adventure Games Podcast returns to the podcast again to talk about folk horror game The Excavation of Hobs Barrow.
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Seoirse Dunbar
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Join Matt and guest Rahl Giver as they travel through time to save a peaceful alliance with aliens in the first Journeyman Project game!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Rahl Giver
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Journey to another world as Matt is joined by Sam Stokes to talk about the second Discworld game!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Sam Stokes
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Krunchy Fried Games' Dominic O'Reilly appears on the podcat to talk about the hilarious game Darkside Detective!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Dominic O'Reilly
Find Dominic's work here:
Krunchy Fried Games
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Welcome to season two! To start things off Matt is joined by Daniel Albu to talk about 90s FMV cult classic, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh...
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Daniel Albu
Find Daniel's work here:
Albu Interactive >> Daniel Albu :: Freelance Game Developer
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Closing 2022 for us is the return of Ian Buckley to talk about a little known game called Return to Monkey Island. Expect talk on the plot, characters and the themes in general!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Ian Buckley
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Get ready for a jump in technological advancement in adventure games as Sierra released King's Quest IV in 1988! Pat from the Passion of the Geeks podcast is our guest this episode to talk about how graphic adventures were easy to play when English wasn't your first language, the reasons he loved Rosella as a protagonist and what it is about the King's Quest series that makes him love it so.
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Pat (Passion of the Geeks)
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With the aim of mixing Monkey Island with a dash of British humour ala "Discworld", "Blackadder" and "Monty Python", 1993's Simon The Sorcerer was the adventure game Britain was asking for. Journalist Ashley Day talks about why it's one of his favourite games, as well as a little bit about the BBC sit-com Red Dwarf. Which led to him talking briefly about the game with the voice of Simon, Chris Barrie....
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Ashley Day
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Your eyes do not deceive you, it's another episode! Matt is joined by Seoirse, host of the Adventure Games Podcast, to talk about Sierra Online's 1989 Murder Mystery adventure "The Colonel's Bequest". Aside from Seoirse's history with the genre, they delve into crime fiction tropes, what you can do with 16 colours and whether The Colonel's Bequest was way ahead of it's time.....
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Seoirse Dunbar
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Welcome back! It's been two years since the last episode but we're back! Matt is joined by Ian Buckley to talk about the hit walking simulator "Gone Home" to discuss narratives, storytelling and the use of horror tropes to tell a realistic teenage story.
C/w: Very brief references to suicide and abuse.
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Ian Buckley
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Please note that this episode was the pilot for what would've been the original format of Matt and AJ Black talking about games. It will be around two and a half years until the second episode....
Let's go for a biggie for the first episode, where Matt & Tony talk about the "Star Wars of Adventure Games", The Secret of Monkey Island.
Hosts : Matt Latham & Tony Black
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Alfredo Avalos is the guest this month! He and Matt delve deep into Lucas Arts' dramatic alien exploration game: The Dig. It's got a lengthy development time, a wealth of prestige talent behind it and a reputation for being "the serious one" in the company releases. What makes it so special? Why not listen and find out...
Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Alfredo Avalos
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ASK US ABOUT LOOM IS BACK! Thank the point and click deities as the podcast is back for 2026! Opening the year is returning guests Seoirse Dunbar and Johnny Nys! This time they're taking on the second Laura Bow game: The Dagger of Amon-Ra.
Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Seoirse Dunbar and Johnny Nys
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YouTuber and Streamer Chrissie aka The Pointyclick Reader is the guest for this month, talking about fantasy and sci-fi adventure Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard...
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Chrissie (Pointyclick Reader)
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Podcaster/YouTuber/Streamer PixelatedLinds of the Point and Quest Podcast is the guest this month, talking about coming of age 00s teen drama Perfect Tides...
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: PixelatedLinds
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Returning to the podcast is both AJ Black and Lee Chrimes to talk about Lucas Art's 1993 epic, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Lee Chrimes & AJ Black
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Take on the dystopian Union City in 1994's Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution with Laura Cress!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Laura Cress
Watch Laura on Twitch!
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Get ready to launch into the world of the Saturday Morning Cartoon with Matt and guest Johnny Nys as they talk about 1991's The Adventures of Willy Beamish! From it's graphical style to it's openness in it's puzzle design to it's tonal shifts to it's dated-cultural-attitudes to it's 80s adventure-movie-style adventure...it's all here!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Johnny Nys
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Welcome to 2025! Developer and musician Claire Morwood is here to talk about the FMV game Dark Nights With Poe & Munro, the spin-off to 2018's The Shapeshifting Detective! Matt and Claire talk about Claire's origins with games and the narrative genre, alongside the game in full depth. From the gameplay, to the benefits/drawbacks of an interactive FMV game as a whole. There's also an episode-by-episode breakdown of each of the game's episodes.
Welcome back to Ask Us About Loom!
Host: Matt Latham
Guest: Claire Morwood
Visit Claire's site here!
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