That odd, faint sound you just heard? That would ATMachine's brain exploding.
LucasArts programmer of yore Aric Wilmunder has decided to make a very convincing argument for why he should be given Mojo's coveted Favorite Person Of All Time Award. From his web site:
Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, The Dig, Indy Iron Phoenix, the list goes on. I worked on all of these and had a suspicion that someday there would be interest in how these games were made. Years ago I visited the LucasArts facility in the San Francisco Presidio and brought along two grocery bags of design documents. I asked if they had an archivist and I was told that since I had kept these safe for over two decades, it was best if I just kept them together. I have met with the archivist at Stanford and these documents will either end up there or at a museum dedicated to preserving game design. Until then, I plan to release a few documents every month, and I am currently looking at using GitHub for archiving the SCUMM source code.
Then change your pants, which I'm sure are useless now.
Source: Aric's World
Thank you Aric Wilmunder!
Thank you no-edit Mojo! :D
BTW it says:
"THE PIRATE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND or Being a Proposal In Which We Make Amends for the Ending of Monkey Island 2".
And shat my pants.
Anyone can help filling the ***?
"It is not a thing. It is a place. To be specific, it is a small opening in the earth.
Deep in a cave near the center of Monkey Island is a crevice that glows red. Anyone peering in would feel the inmistakable rush of evil billowing upward. It is heat so intense that it overcomes your mind, drawing you deep into things better left unseen - undone. That crack decends to a place at the center of the earth, the name of which changes from religion to religion, from faith to faith. Most pirates call it Hell."
Also, we can read a lot the words "dead" and "killing". Yeah, Ron originally wanted the series in a much darker way than it went - specially later with the cartoon-ish MI3.
AlfredJ
Can't see Indy & The Iron Phoenix in that list though.
No, but since he took the time to include it in his preamble I'm hoping it makes the cut.
Mutiny on Monkey Island? The Pirate Curse of Monkey Island? Forge?
Can't see Indy & The Iron Phoenix in that list though.