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Thanks, I'll gladly accept your offer!

Here to help.
Looking forward to proofreading!
-          Sebulon

Well, most companies and even single authors created their own engines back then, and the thing still went on up until the early nineties at least. Then it became more popular to borrow or buy engines made by others, but still nowadays new engines get created from time to time.

And some bring with them the most important revolutions in gaming history. Scumm, Doom Engine, Unreal Engine, Cryengine are just examples (some are graphical, I know, but the concept is the same).

Ron mentions this Kornis Rift early in the talk.

I never played it (yet), but the cover looks more like Oculus Rift than Koronis Rift!

Interesting that he calls it 'a few weeks' of coding in assembly before starting to code SCUMM. It was a very barebones and basic time back then, no AGS, no SCUMM, no fancy engines, but I guess I would have figured out the need for an engine even faster...

Here's another interesting GDC video, from yet another master of adventure games: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014732/Classic-Game-Postmortem-MANIAC

Not as interesting as I thought it would be, actually, but still worth watching.

Are you a pixel-artist, Zeeg? If so, please share a link to some of your work (a PM or an email is fine, if you want to keep it private).

Thanks for getting in touch!

Thanks for the tip, Guvna!

When it's really cheap, download legally guys (as you can see, D1sney, we're helping you make some cash)!

Agreed. Thanks cuchulainn for the notification (and the nice "lies"!) but let's move the discussion there. I'm closing this topic.

Why, thank you workingboy!

I appreciate you spent some time to share your opinion, and I'm glad it's mostly positive. Anyway, feel free to leave some criticism as well: it will help make the game better.

Oh, and welcome on the boards!

Thanks for your offer, cuchulainn.

The sample work is not bad, though it's not exactly pixel-art. I will quote one of my recent replies according to that, which should explain why.

Pixel-art doesn't just mean using low-res. It's a very specific kind of art, with its strict rules and its distinctive looks. No use of filters is just one of those rules, and many WadjetEye games make abundant use of them, giving that sort of "blurred" effect to backgrounds. Characters are usually in pixel-art, though.
There's a lot of sources you might look into if you're interested in knowing more about Pixel-art. I recommend this link: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299&PID=139318#139318

However, I'd be interested in seeing more, even non pixel art, sketches and the like. If you have a portfolio, please share a link (not necessarily here, a PM or an email work as well).