a screenshot from Curse of Monkey Island that looks like an interactive cartoon, showing the pirate protagonist exploring a ship’s hold full of treasure. The interface is displayed as a pop-up of a gold doubloon, with exaggerated icons for a hand, a skull with eyes, and a parrot head.

Guybrush’s Heirs

Mike Russo analyzes limited-parser games and parser-like choice games, and compares their design and motivations to those of graphical point-n-click adventure games.