The 'Adventure Classic Gaming' site has done an excellent interview with Space Quest co-creator Scott Murphy, with plenty of both insight and vitriol levelled at the unraveling of Siera.

Murphy, who claims he hasn't really given interviews before due to his Attention Deficit Disorder, rages: "The bitterness I posses is at what Sierra and Ken Williams had become as they became more and more successful, and how the Space Quest 6 abortion came about after broken promises and the just plain fucking over I got from the people I’d worked so incredibly hard for. The more successful each game became, the worse they treated us and the less they wanted to pay us."

As for the future of adventure gaming? Murphy is brutally honest, but perhaps essentially correct: "I’ve never given it a thought since I know that world has come and gone. Adventure games have cult status. Companies don’t have interest in the kind of money cult work might bring." Mind you, there's TellTale's Sam & Max, right? Never surrender! [Via Indygamer.]