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Jeff Vogel Interview: Exile, Avernum, Geneforge, and 32 Years of Independent RPGs

Retro Replay interview cover featuring Jeff Vogel, Exile, Avernum, and Geneforge.

Jeff Vogel bought a PowerMac 6100 in 1994, went looking for a role-playing game, and failed to find one. So he started writing his own. There was already a Mac shareware RPG called Realmz, but he did not discover it until Exile: Escape From the Pit was almost ready to launch. Had he found it earlier, he tells us, his whole life might have gone differently. Then the Realmz developers at Fantasoft… Read more