Myself, I’m up for the Collector’s Edition tier at $115 (delivered to the UK). If you’ve got some spare funds then why not put it to good use and back Tex Murphy Project Fedora

Although extremely sore on arrival back home she was still in pretty good spirits. The weather was perhaps a little too kind in that it was sunny so meant the carrying of a coat and catching a little too much sun.

Well done to her and her friends!

I really hate riding in poor weather and this has meant I’ve not done any training for this year’s ride. Even though I ride my bicycle to work each day come rain or shine a quick ride out today reminded me of the importance of training.

As the sun came out for an hour I went off to Cherhill, Wiltshire (a small village in Wiltshire found on the A4). The only remarkable thing about the journey was that unlike my usual rides, it was all hills. Whilst I didn’t have the ability to power up the hills – some of the physical improvements made last year had clearly disappeared – I did use the downhill stretches to their maximum at one point reaching a recorded 43.6 MPH on the Synapse

Activity Summary

• Distance: 18.086 Miles, Duration: 1:16:10
• Total distance (Miles) : 658.508, Total time: 52:30:10, Average distance per event: 7.005

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I have improved upon last year’s image for the ride :

The choice of timing is perhaps a little annoying as everyone wants a slice of the action at the same time. Even so, if you want to see a few more games here’s the next couple I’ve been made aware of:

Leisure Suit Larry from Reloaded (Al Lowe)

Reloaded have acquired a license to redo LSL1 and I find this terribly uninspired. The project was announced last year as a commercial concern so funding it this way leads to questions about the long term future of the franchise. The project goal also seems high [for a remake].

Pinkerton Road from CSG (Jane Jenson)

CSG’s Kickstarter campaign is quite frankly a disorganised mess. The rewards are poorly thought out, the concept overly complicated and the whole deal seems like it was rushed to capitalise on the success of DoubleFine. After a few days of Q&A at least one of the items of concern has been rectified with an important date to remember being April 14-15 where we [the backers] get to vote on which concept CSG should work on. That may persuade or possibly even dissuade potential backers of course!

Sadly, boxed copies seem to be at the same out of reach value of $100+ so this together with my thoughts on the projects I’m on the fence on backing either at this time.

Under a Killing Moon was one of those games that defined an era in PC gaming. It was a great adventure game that pushed the technical boundaries but thankfully didn’t neglect the story or player experience. The sequels built upon this but the story never was never completed as FMV became the latest tech to be blamed for poor gaming experience [arguably so in some cases!] and adventure games in general started their decline in popularity.

If you’re interested then why not support them and perhaps they’ll be able to raise more than the 10′s of $’s they already have

Took advantage of the afternoon sun and went out for a quick ride on the road bike. Sadly it didn’t end well as I experienced my first clipless moment hitting the deck rather hard. Bruised ribs and a sore wrist are the worst of my injuries. Was not convinced over the benefits of being locked to the bike as it was, now even less so.

On the sunny side, the Synapse and I have now covered 1100 miles

Activity Summary

• Distance: 10.326 Miles, Duration: 0:47:24
• Total distance (Miles) : 658.508, Total time: 52:30:10, Average distance per event: 7.005

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With Tim & Ron behind it expectations are naturally high. So high in fact that their funding total is now 5 times over the original goal and still counting.

The [DRM free] game for $15 is likely to be a bargain. Whilst there are many rewards available, I personally feel that most are quite expensive for what you get. I’m agonising over supporting a boxed special edition but at $110 [to the UK], I just can’t justify the cost difference -$85 for a ‘making of DVD’ seems a little steep.

Check out the Kickstarter page for details on the project and the rewards on offer.

If you’ve got 35 minutes to spare there are some great snippets of information in this video.

Adventure games aren’t dead whilst there are people around willing to support them. There’s still a couple of weeks before the the Kickstarter project ends so to quote Ron from the video, it’s time to “put up or shut up”