Gamer, reviewer, tester...

Well, time for an elaborate introduction, I guess... I’m both a veteran in and fairly new to graphic adventures.

I’ve been playing them for 30 years now. My very first one must’ve been Hugo’s House of Horrors, but it’s The Secret of Monkey Island that really fired my passion for this version of storytelling. Only in the last couple of years have I participated in game development, beta testing and proofreading.

I tested Not Another Weekend and Watch over Christmas for Dionous Games, Lucy Dreaming for Tall Story Games, Plot of the Druid for Adventure4Life Studios, Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard for WatchDaToast, A Twisted Tale for Voodoo Bembel, Scott Whiskers in: the Search for Mr. Fumbleclaw for Fancy Factory, The Mystery of the Purple Peacock for Themis Tantalakis, The Will of Arthur Flabbington for Gugames and Old Skies for Wadjet Eye Games, and I also proofread the scripts of Lucy Dreaming and A Twisted Tale.

Doing all this has sparked a desire to be even more active and to help out as an actual writer. I’ve been writing stories for 35 years, even got a couple of shorts published here and there over the years, but still trying to get that novel out there.

A while back I thought, why not adapt a story into an adventure game? Would that work? So I’m very eager to find out. Only a couple of problems: I can’t draw; I’m no graphic artist. And I can’t program. Last time I was IT-savvy was when I edited the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on my old 386 & 486 to free up memory to play more demanding games. When I was young, I wrote a pick-a-path story once which was fun to do but of course was text only.

I was lucky to be part of a great team in September '22, when we created The Crete Escape for the $106 Adventure Game Challenge with yours truly as the main writer. That was my first experience of actually making a game.

Then thanks to Lucy Dreaming creator Tom Hardwidge, I got in touch with Jack and Joshua of Adventure Game Hotspot, who gladly accepted my services as game reviewer. I've got my own author page there as well.

I'm not much into (hard) sci-fi or fantasy, I prefer real world settings but they can sure contain some sci-fi or supernatural elements. Games like Gabriel Knight, Kathy Rain, Blackwell, Indiana Jones, Broken Sword, Gray Matter, Thimbleweed Park, Secret Files, ... Well, you know what I mean.

Oh yeah, I live in Belgium, so my mother tongue is actually Flemish (a form of Dutch).