An Interview With ‘Star Billions’ Creators James Tillman and Matthew Taylor

I recently finished playing through the second season of the narrative space adventure game, Star Billions. As with my previous interviews, I had been chatting with one of the creators and learned some fascinating things about the game that I thought my readers might be interested in. So below, I present to you an interview with developers James Tillman and Matthew Taylor. Appunwrapper: Hi James and Matthew. Thanks so much for taking…

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Finding the Right Words: An Interview with Neven Mrgan About Grayout, the Prequel to Blackbar

Grayout By: Mrgan LLC I was a couple of years late to the party with Neven Mrgan and James Moore's censorship game Blackbar, but it's a trippy experience that I recommend trying if you haven't yet. It uses dark humor and absurdity to warn us about relying too heavily on surveillance and censorship. I loved the tone of the game, so when I heard they were working on a prequel called Grayout,…

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Debriefing Creator Mark White About “Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise”

Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise By: Yak & Co. I started conducting interviews here on AppUnwrapper, my first ones being of Her Story. After playing spy thriller Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise and chatting a bit with Mark White of Yak & Co., creator, art director and game designer for the puzzle adventure game, I thought this would be a good opportunity for another interview. I'm asking Mark some of…

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I Locked Glitch Games’ Simon Pearce and Graham Ranson In a Room to Discuss “Forever Lost”

I started a new series recently here on AppUnwrapper, where I interviewed Sam Barlow and Viva Seifert about their work on Her Story, giving readers the opportunity to offer their own questions. As a big fan of Glitch Games' puzzle adventure games like Forever Lost, I wanted to try the same thing with them. So I'll be interviewing Simon Pearce and Graham Ranson, taking additional questions from the comments section. AppUnwrapper: First…

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Interrogating “Her Story” Creator Sam Barlow and Actress Viva Seifert (Interview)

Her Story By: Sam Barlow As anyone who's been following me here or on Twitter for the last few weeks might have noticed, I've been a bit obsessed with the game "Her Story." I reached out to the creator, Sam Barlow, to conduct an interview, to which he generously agreed. We've been doing it one question at a time over email and I thought it might be interesting to let my audience…

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