They used to have another company do Android ports for them, but that company went out of business, and Dave has said they haven't found anyone else to do it at a cost that makes financial sense for them. Devolver might be a good choice since they published Dropsy, but at this point I think Dave prefers to stay independent.
I'm surprised that Devolver is putting out The Red Strings Club as their forays into Point and Click have been somewhat disasterous. Gods Will Be Watching was hyped up and sold well but is just so so bad. And Dropsy is great, but I get the sense that it didn't sell well.
Steamspy says Dropsy's numbers are above 150,000, but it was in a Humble Bundle, so take that number with two grains of salt.
The original is still on my wishlist! I wasn't in any rush to pick it up because of the bugs.
The Raven remastered was in development alongside Black Mirror 2017.
I was a Sierra fan but didn't own any Police Quest games - the whole police procedural aspect didn't seem interesting to me at the time. I do remember when Sierra trumpeted the Gates connection when PQ4 was announced, and having lived through the LA riots, I found it to be a questionable partnership, but I didn't pay that much attention to it. I don't recall seeing any gaming mags pointing out how awful Gates was (the note about Computer Gaming World ducking the issue appears to confirm that), but that was probably more about the rah-rah state of game journalism. Internet communities were pretty much only Usenet message boards and e-mail lists in 1993.
I've been playing DOTT on iPad recently and I can confirm this. I remember all sorts of stuff even though I haven't played in in ages.
I did remember a few solutions, but unlike, say, the original Monkey Island which I played multiple times as a kid, I hadn't touched DOTT in over 20 years since I beat it the first time, so it was mostly 'fresh' to me.
Personally, despite the puzzles, exploration, and narrative-driven motivation to continue, I'm worried every moment that I'm playing Silent Hill that a game-system-driven enemy is going to kill me, so it doesn't occupy the same space in my brain as adventure games.
To me the survival part is the fact that you have to make do with very little resources. You have to make every bullet and health item count to survive.
Hopefully the next Life is Strange manges to incorporate some puzzles even if they are easy/simple.
I've had the same experience a while ago and I really, really wondered how the hell I played games as a kid / teen. I (think I) remember spending weeks on Monkey Island, FoA, Broken Sword, The Serrated Scalpel, and lots of others, loading them up every day for at least a couple of hours. I guess I was more patient back then but how did I not "beat" them after a week or so at most? I guess I might have just sucked but, then again, we also managed to figure out how to play simulation and strategy games like Sim City, The Guild, Capitalism, and whatnot as kids, often without *cough* a manual -- some of those, I probably wouldn't even touch today anymore because I'd consider them too confusing. So, I don't know, somehow replaying games from my childhood makes both my former self and my current self feel incredibly dumb at the same time.
In Lorelai trailer devs used Cat Lady assets, don't know if this intentional or just placeholder =)
