Back Seat Designers

Back Seat Designers


Latest Episodes

Season V, Episode 3 – Poking the Well-dressed Bear
March 19, 2018

Francisco Gonzalez talks to us about streaming and its effects on adventure game developers

Season V, Episode 2 – Four Men and a Little Lady
March 12, 2018

Interview with Steven Alexander about Infamous Quests and following your dreams.

Season V, Episode 1 – A Licence to Print Money
March 05, 2018

Interview with Dave Gilbert (Wadjet Eye Games) about the state of the industry in 2018.

S4 “Memorial Episode”
May 27, 2017

So. A fortnight ago we released the final episode of Season 4, in which Jean-Baptiste de Clerfayt and “San” Francisco Gonzales talked at length about adventure game communities before the brutal and horrible murder of the regular hosts.

S4E17 – “Handjobs In a Parking Lot” Is One Of Bono’s Finest Songs
May 14, 2017

Season finale with Jean-Baptiste de Clerfayt & Francisco Gonzalez

S4E16 – We Are Not Done Yet, And I Will Not Tell You Anything
May 07, 2017

I am sometimes asked what games I play by people who don’t play games. I try to explain what an adventure game is by mumbling words like “story-driven” and “object puzzles,” and often the faux-interested response is, “Like, role playing games?

S4E15 – A Strange, Erotic Journey from Milan to Minsk: A Phat Paradigm Post-Mortem
May 01, 2017

Post-mortem of Paradigm with creator Jacob Janerka

S4E14 – What Is the Safe Word?
April 23, 2017

Interview with the makers of Unforeseen Incidents.

S4E13 – I Quit
April 09, 2017

A retrospective of the life of the show

S4E12 – Pandora’s Big Box
April 01, 2017

Chris Jones, Aaron Conners, and Mat Van Rhoon (creators of Tex Murphy) talk about FMV games.