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Ask Villany About...The Curse of Monkey Island

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0000

Twitch streamer Villainy is the guest this month, and ooooh boy is it a biggie. It's a really biggie. It's the second biggest biggie you'll ever play: The Curse of Monkey Island. In some circles it's the best Monkey Island game. To others it's not as good as the two before it. But what it is, is a game that's influenced and taken the hearts of those that have played it. Particularly Villainy, as it's her favourite game of all time. It's also Matt's - he's been waiting a long time to talk about this game...and the excitement is apparent.

So get ready for the podcast's fourth dip into the Carribean....

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Villainy VS⁠⁠⁠

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Ask Alfredo Avalos about...The Dig!

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0000

Alfredo Avalos is the guest this month! He and Matt delve deep into Lucas Arts' dramatic alien exploration game: The Dig. It's got a lengthy development time, a wealth of prestige talent behind it and a reputation for being "the serious one" in the company releases. What makes it so special? Why not listen and find out...

Host: Matt Latham

Guests: Alfredo Avalos

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Ask Seoirse Dunbar and Johnny Nys About...The Dagger of Amon-Ra!

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000

ASK US ABOUT LOOM IS BACK! Thank the point and click deities as the podcast is back for 2026! Opening the year is returning guests Seoirse Dunbar and Johnny Nys! This time they're taking on the second Laura Bow game: The Dagger of Amon-Ra.

Host: Matt Latham

Guests: Seoirse Dunbar and Johnny Nys ⁠

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Ask Pointyclick Reader About...Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000

YouTuber and Streamer Chrissie aka The Pointyclick Reader is the guest for this month, talking about fantasy and sci-fi adventure Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard...

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Chrissie (⁠Pointyclick Reader)

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Ask PixelatedLinds About...Perfect Tides

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000

Podcaster/YouTuber/Streamer PixelatedLinds of the Point and Quest Podcast is the guest this month, talking about coming of age 00s teen drama Perfect Tides...

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: PixelatedLinds

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Ask Lee Chrimes & AJ Black About...Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0000

Returning to the podcast is both AJ Black and Lee Chrimes to talk about Lucas Art's 1993 epic, Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Lee Chrimes & AJ Black

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Ask Laura Cress About...Beneath A Steel Sky

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000

Take on the dystopian Union City in 1994's Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution with Laura Cress!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Laura Cress

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Ask Johnny Nys About...The Adventures of Willy Beamish!

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0000

Get ready to launch into the world of the Saturday Morning Cartoon with Matt and guest Johnny Nys as they talk about 1991's The Adventures of Willy Beamish! From it's graphical style to it's openness in it's puzzle design to it's tonal shifts to it's dated-cultural-attitudes to it's 80s adventure-movie-style adventure...it's all here!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Johnny Nys

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Ask Claire Morwood About...Dark Nights With Poe & Munro

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0000

Welcome to 2025! Developer and musician Claire Morwood is here to talk about the FMV game Dark Nights With Poe & Munro, the spin-off to 2018's The Shapeshifting Detective! Matt and Claire talk about Claire's origins with games and the narrative genre, alongside the game in full depth. From the gameplay, to the benefits/drawbacks of an interactive FMV game as a whole. There's also an episode-by-episode breakdown of each of the game's episodes.

Welcome back to Ask Us About Loom!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Claire Morwood

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Ask Geoff Owen About...The Stanley Parable (and the Ultra Deluxe Edition)

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:00:00 -0000

This is the story of a podcaster named Geoff. Geoff was a man who liked to talk about things like Star Trek and old video games magazines, but one day another man named Matt asked him to talk about The Stanley Parable.

"Yee gads, I would definitely like to talk about The Stanley Parable," Geoff replied. All enthusiastic with glee to talk about one of the most unique experiences you can get in a video game. And so they talked. About the game, about he Ultra Deluxe Edition and the exploration of narrative and choice in video game design.

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Geoff Owen

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Ask Liz Hustedt About...Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0000

Host Matt Latham is joined by Point 'n' Click superfan Liz Hustedt to talk about a very, very strong candidate for the best Point 'n' Click game of all time: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Alongside Liz's history with the genre, the episode delves into why the game might be one of the best, why it's popular, whether it's an example of sequels being better than the predecessor, the infamous monkey-wrench puzzle, the characterisation of Guybrush compared to later games and, of course, that ending. The episode will also go into a brief spoilery chat about Return to Monkey Island and whether the game offers a new context of certain crticisms about the ending; and whether it has actually improved MI2's overall quality.

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Guest: Liz Hustedt

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AdventureX Interview Special!

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:03 -0000

In early November, Matt was at the AdventureX conference in Greenwich, seeing a few talks and talking to and developers and playing games. It was an absolute load of fun. He even recorded a good two hours worth of interviews that you can hear now!

Host: Matt Latham

Games interviewed about include:
Articy
Asterism
Cabernet
Castle Dornstein
CLeM
Direct Drive
Foolish Mortals
Heir of the Dog
HRO
Octopus City Blues
The Quiet Things
Vagabond Starship
Windrush Tales

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Ask Lee Chrimes About...Contradiction: Spot The Liar!

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0000

Matt is joined by long-time friend Lee Chrimes to talk about charming British FMV mystery Contradiction: Spot the Liar! They cover how Lee and his wife first played it during lockdown, the way the game is structured, the cast and how Jenks might be one of the best FMV lead characters ever.

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Guest: Lee Chrimes

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Ask Pat About...King's Quest VI

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000

Pat from Passion of the Geeks is back! This time to finish the conversation that threatened to derail the talk about King's Quest IV: talking about King's Quest VI! Pat and Matt talk about why they love it, it's story and Jane Jensen and the puzzle design. And yes, they also do talk about The Girl In the Tower as well....

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Pat (Passion of the Geeks)

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Ask Seoirse Dunbar About...The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000

Seoirse Dunbar from the Adventure Games Podcast returns to the podcast again to talk about folk horror game The Excavation of Hobs Barrow.

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Seoirse Dunbar

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Ask Rahl Giver About...The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000

Join Matt and guest Rahl Giver as they travel through time to save a peaceful alliance with aliens in the first Journeyman Project game!

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Guest: Rahl Giver

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Ask Sam Stokes About...Discworld 2

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:00:00 -0000

Journey to another world as Matt is joined by Sam Stokes to talk about the second Discworld game!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Sam Stokes

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Ask Dominic O'Reilly About...The Darkside Detective

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 23:00:00 -0000

Krunchy Fried Games' Dominic O'Reilly appears on the podcat to talk about the hilarious game Darkside Detective!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Dominic O'Reilly

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Krunchy Fried Games

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Ask Daniel Albu About...Phantasmagoria 2

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:00:00 -0000

Welcome to season two! To start things off Matt is joined by Daniel Albu to talk about 90s FMV cult classic, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh...

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Daniel Albu

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Albu Interactive >> Daniel Albu :: Freelance Game Developer

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Ask Ian Buckley About... Immortality

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0000

Hello! Back once again is Ian Buckley, here to talk about Matt's favourite game of 2022, Immortality...

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Ian Buckley

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Ask Seoirse Dunbar About... Suzerain

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:00:00 -0000

In the first special to tide you over until the Definitely Happening Season Two (I've said it, I've committed now), Matt is proud to welcome back Seoirse from the Adventure Games Podcast to talk about 2020's political simulator Suzerain...

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Seoirse Dunbar

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Ask Ian Buckley About... Return to Monkey Island

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0000

Closing 2022 for us is the return of Ian Buckley to talk about a little known game called Return to Monkey Island. Expect talk on the plot, characters and the themes in general!

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Ian Buckley

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Ask Pat About... King's Quest IV

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:39:00 -0000

Get ready for a jump in technological advancement in adventure games as Sierra released King's Quest IV in 1988! Pat from the Passion of the Geeks podcast is our guest this episode to talk about how graphic adventures were easy to play when English wasn't your first language, the reasons he loved Rosella as a protagonist and what it is about the King's Quest series that makes him love it so.

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Pat (Passion of the Geeks)

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Ask Ashley Day About...Simon The Sorcerer

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:23:00 -0000

With the aim of mixing Monkey Island with a dash of British humour ala "Discworld", "Blackadder" and "Monty Python", 1993's Simon The Sorcerer was the adventure game Britain was asking for. Journalist Ashley Day talks about why it's one of his favourite games, as well as a little bit about the BBC sit-com Red Dwarf. Which led to him talking briefly about the game with the voice of Simon, Chris Barrie....

Host: Matt Latham

Guest: Ashley Day

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Ask Seoirse Dunbar About...The Colonel's Bequest

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 06:33:00 -0000

Your eyes do not deceive you, it's another episode! Matt is joined by Seoirse, host of the Adventure Games Podcast, to talk about Sierra Online's 1989 Murder Mystery adventure "The Colonel's Bequest". Aside from Seoirse's history with the genre, they delve into crime fiction tropes, what you can do with 16 colours and whether The Colonel's Bequest was way ahead of it's time.....

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Guest: Seoirse Dunbar

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Ask Ian Buckley About...Gone Home

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:00:00 -0000

Welcome back! It's been two years since the last episode but we're back! Matt is joined by Ian Buckley to talk about the hit walking simulator "Gone Home" to discuss narratives, storytelling and the use of horror tropes to tell a realistic teenage story.

C/w: Very brief references to suicide and abuse.

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Guest: Ian Buckley

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Ask AJ Black About...The Secret of Monkey Island

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:00:00 -0000

Please note that this episode was the pilot for what would've been the original format of Matt and AJ Black talking about games. It will be around two and a half years until the second episode....

Let's go for a biggie for the first episode, where Matt & Tony talk about the "Star Wars of Adventure Games", The Secret of Monkey Island.

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0: The Introduction Episode

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:44:29 -0000

Welcome to "Ask Us About Loom", the podcast about Point 'n' Click Adventure Games and beyond. This episode introduces you to our hosts, their experiences with the genre and what they hope to get from doing the podcast.

Hosts : Matt Latham & Tony Black

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