Dave Gilbert

Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...

I wrote a review of @wadjeteyegames.com's and @richardcobbett.bsky.social's /Nighthawks,/ a game that warms my cold dead heart.

Just finished Unavowed for the first time, and with that I am entirely caught up on all of @wadjeteyegames.com’s games. And they’re all unsurprisingly fantastic - somehow Old Skies was my first, and Unavowed was a great finisher after playing through all the Blackwell games.

Come on, universe. Eric Bauza and Walter Koenig on the same day? This frigging year, man.

Any marketing/PR people attending AdventureX this year? Asking for... reasons. Would love to meet up at the event and chat. Reach out to me if so. dave at wadjeteyegames dot com.

A lovely interview! Also, never underestimate hearing a long-time collaborator describe you as someone who “never phones it in” to make you a little misty! Having Dave describe me as doing a huge amount of thinking and then be totally present in character while recording: very validating!

Just rolled credits on Nighthawks. In a good year for games, particular those with strong narrative, its going to be hard to beat

Saw "You Can See Everything" last night. The hype is frigging real. I went in expecting a “haha look at the quirky lying lady” hit piece but it soon transcended its subject matter.

The full version of my PRGE interview is up! We chat about the adventure game community, the legacy of Roberta Vaughan, the challenges of time travel stories and what it’s like collaborating with @sallybeaumont.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yl9...

What would you do if you became a vampire and moved to a new city? The Point 'n Clicker tells about his experiences in "Nighthawks", made by @richardcobbett.bsky.social and published by @wadjeteyegames.com!

Cars are *amazing* now. I only recently started driving regularly (hadn’t owned a car since 1999) and the plethora of features makes me feel like I’m living in the future. The Reverse Cam alone is amazing. Parallel parking used to be my nightmare. Now it’s a breeze.

Gilt is a very serious game for serious people. Seriously. store.steampowered.com/app/3979770/...

AGG did a lovely retrospective video about the Sierra museum at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. I'm interviewed in it! Still buzzing from what a great weekend that was.

Sending an audition to a casting director with the words “I’ve never done this before but figured I’d give it a shot!” isn’t the best way to instill confidence. Just saying.

For Nighthawks, DA2 specifically. It has flaws, yes, but a lot of the stuff it did around the party interactions and a plot taking place over an extended time frame were very direct inspirations, along with the wonderful character writing that made it feel like the party had lives outside of you.

It’s now pretty much exactly one month since Nighthawks came out. No tech disasters, people seem to have enjoyed it, and we sold more than my prediction of (checks) five copies, so… I think we can call honour satisfied! Of course, please keep buying it, ta. store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

Nighthawks continues to be a fun game to stream. Tomorrow my discord has voted that spooky retro game month continues with The Dark Half adventure game. Will we solve this mystery? Will the puzzles solve me?

Just posted the latest Nighthawks patch. We're at the point now where most of the patch changes are things like typos and minor sequence things, so instead of a long list of those, I thought I'd try a moderately sized list of "Did You Try...?" suggestions... store.steampowered.com/news/app/122...

My first time directing a flirty scene and it wasn't awkward at all. (It was in fact very awkward)

For any directors fretting that they're doing things wrong: the point is not to be perfect, it's to create a safe, supportive working situation for you both. Here's a clip of me and @wadjeteyegames.com : you can see both of us being awkward, but overall supporting each other youtu.be/aaCBovh_xqY?...

A fan made this perler bead Joey for me over a decade ago. He fell off the wall and his head broke off. :( RIP Joey. Again.

Just finished playing through @wadjeteyegames.com Blackwell series on ScummVM. A wonderful set of ghost mystery point and click adventures that I wholeheartedly recommend. wadjeteyegames.com/games/blackw...

Sadly, my "Nighthawks" adventure is finished... When this game by @richardcobbett.bsky.social and @wadjeteyegames.com ended for me after 47,5 hours, I was very sad it was over. And that's why it will most likely wind up in a very high place in my annual top ten.

Eff me. Not Bioware, too. I can't think of a studio that has had a bigger influence on me than this one. My dream was to be like them. I'll never stop feeling rage and sadness to see studios with tremendous legacies just bought and killed off for parts. This one hurts a lot more than most.

Nighthawks, like Cyberpunk before it, is one of those games that is a bit of a lottery when it comes to playing at my desk in the office. There I was, happily going about my business as a vampire badass when I was invited to jump into a hot tub and enjoy a 'delicious boy'. 🧐

Started playing Nighthawks and it's basically Vampire: The Masquerade without the Masquerade and it's not trying to be a shitty action game. I've already built a Stealth Basically a Toreador. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydR...

[AD/gifted] Was gonna play this on stream but then got ill, so accidentally played the entire thing on my Steam Deck from my sickbed. Would HEARTILY recommend for fans of visual novels and RPGs, I played it as chaotic good but am very tempted to replay soon as a total dickhead.

Rolled credits on Nighthawks. Huge congrats to @richardcobbett.bsky.social & the whole team at @wadjeteyegames.com. It's my favorite game of the year & the best vampire game since VtM: Bloodlines. I'll have more to say later. Check it out on Steam. A tremendous value at 20 bucks.

I don’t spend too much time online these days, but logging in to see things like this is so nice. Nighthawks was a long project, and it’s so rewarding to see people getting a full meal out of it. :)

And that's curtain on Nighthawks! What a fun time this was. Also the bloopers during the credits helped wait patiently for my name to show up.

Here's one of many great moments in Nighthawks that just sneaks up on you through an announcement on the game's social media app. Just play Nighthawks already, folks. It's a delight. You will enjoy every moment of it.