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In terms of presentation, it’s clearly much more rudimentary than anything LucasArts or Sierra were producing in 1994 cheekily, all the test appears in the same font used in early LucasArts point-and-clicks of around the vintage of the first Monkey Island game, and the graphics are of around that level but with somewhat less charm.
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Still, as it turns out I already had one of his other games in my GOG library and didn’t know it – 1994’s Teenagent, a point and click adventure in the LucasArts style, which was eventually released as freeware and is one of the free games anyone with a GOG account can play. Given how deflating I found the end of Ethan Carter, I was already unlikely to go out of my way to pay more money to play Chmielarz’ games, so his views on Gamergate don’t really change that one way or the other. In my view, I just don’t think there’s anything good you can do under the flag of Gamergate because you are always going to have the pestilent horde there using it as a banner for their activities, and imagining you can assumes you have more power over the direction of the concept than the trolls do, which is a big stretch. The logical leap he makes from here – which I just can’t go along with – is to posit that there’s a positive, useful function of Gamergate which it is worth persisting with under that banner. Nonetheless, he seems to be under the impression that Gamergate is a legitimate push for higher standards in games journalism which happened to have an ugly start – that it was a legitimate field of discussion which happened to be parasitised by trolls running a hate campaign, rather than the hate campaign having been the actual point of the endeavour and the “ethics in games journalism” thing being established as cover for it and as an engine for radicalisation.Ĭhmielarz actually seems aware that “Gamergate” will inevitably and always be used by people pursuing an ugly, unacceptable agenda of harassment he’s argued that in a world where the issues that he points out with journalism has all been entirely resolved, there’d be no real need to use the hashtag any more, but it’d continue to be used anyway by trolls out to cause trouble. He’s not one of these uncritical supporters of the movement who argue that Gamergate did nothing wrong, and Zoe deserved it anyway, and that’s something. So far as I can tell from reading up on his views, he’s one of those people who persuaded themselves that the whole thing really was all about ethics in games journalism to give him his due, he does acknowledge that Zoe Quinn received unacceptable harassment and he’s referred to the infamous Zoe Post as “pathetic”, so it would be wrong to regard him as backing the misogynistic crusaders responsible for much of the worst aspects of Gamergate. From then on, he’s run a string of studios, and as such stands as one of the longest-serving veterans of the Polish videogame industry, but disappointingly he did end up siding with Gamergate during the height of that controversy.
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Having been of a generation which grew up under the Communist regime and came into adulthood just as the regime fell, he got his start in part as a software pirate – perhaps more laudable in a country where there was no legitimate way to get many of the games he circulated – but was also cooking up his own games, and shifted to a more legitimate model in the 1990s. Since I wrote the article I’ve learned that the game’s director and co-designer, Adrian Chmielarz, is a bit of an interesting figure in Polish videogame development.
TeenagentĪ while back I reviewed The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a mystery adventure game which I felt did well at providing an interesting atmosphere but was rather disappointing when it came to the execution of the plot, due to having a bit of a cop-out ending.
This time, two point-and-click adventures which both wear their LucasArts influence on their sleeves – one from the 1990s prime of the genre, one from 2017.
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Now for another clutch of reviews of PC games which I’ve played and had some thoughts on, but not enough thoughts to lash together into a full article.
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