Gilbert Blames Doom for fate of adventure games

Fast paced shooters 'drew attention away from more thoughtful play styles'

Adventure games have fallen out of favour with consumers due to the rise of first person shooters, Ron Gilbert has claimed.
The man who 'invented' the point and click game is currently working a new adventure title, thinly disguised behind a veil of platforming mechanics.

The Cave is being developed at Double Fine, which became the standard-bearer of adventure games this spring when it launched its $3.3 million Kickstarter campaign to fund a game of a genre long considered defunct.
But Gilbert says the death of the genre is just a myth.
"Adventure games never really died," he told Eurogamer.

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