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Gilbert! Gilbert! Gilbert! 27 Apr, 2007 / Comments: 17

By jp-30


IGN interviews Rob Ron Gilbert! Gilbert! Gilbert! He chats about Maniac Mansion, the current state of adventure games, and 300.
Mostly I do a lot of consulting for other companies. Game design, writing, stuff like that. There is an adventure, role-playing game hybrid that I'm currently designing and looking for a publisher for.
Nothing new there, then. Come on publishers, ya bunch of knobs, help out our Ron.

Source: IGN

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  • NatsFan on 27 Apr, 2007, 20:46…
    I wonder if that "hybrid" will ever actually be published?

    Does anyone know what Brian Moriarty's up to? I've heard a lot about many of the other LucasArts elites, but I haven't heard any news about Moriarty.
  • jp-30 on 27 Apr, 2007, 21:24…
    This interview from last September should bring you up to speed with Brian Moriaty. :-)
  • Jake on 27 Apr, 2007, 16:15…
    What's up lately? Mojo has had stories about Hal Barwood, Noah Falstein, Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman (and their respective game projects) appearing in the news so much in the past few weeks... it's kind of awesome. I don't think these guys have been in the news so often talking about adventure games (or in the case of Schafer, general awesomeness)... in decades.
  • Udvarnoky on 27 Apr, 2007, 16:53…
    It's true, in the category of things Mojo likes to cover, there really hasn't been this much excitement at one time in ever really. I mean, even in the Golden Age of Mojo (which was made in what, 95-96?), the only real things to follow over the course of eight years were the releases of CMI, Grim, and EMI followed by five years of nothing. Now we've got: Psychonauts! Six Sam & Max games! (And presumably more coming!) Bone games! Double Fine games! Autumn Moon's graphic adventure! The Insecticide title that Larry Ahern and others are working on! Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein's shenanigans! Ron Gilbert's probably-going-to-exist project! And maybe even an Indiana Jones game that won't suck! The scene has never been more active.
  • Scummbuddy on 27 Apr, 2007, 17:07…
    Yes, I must thank mojo for being so active and posting all this news that I wouldn't have known about. Especially things like Hal B coming seemingly out of nowhere.
  • CaptainDread on 27 Apr, 2007, 16:46…
    The 20th anniversary of the SCUMM engine sure doesn't hurt public awareness. And of course there's you crazy Telltale guys.
  • clone2727 on 29 Apr, 2007, 16:23…
    ... and 25th of LucasArts ... and 30th of Star Wars ...
  • Gabez on 27 Apr, 2007, 15:47…
    I'm assuming that Rob is Ron's evil twin brother. :P
  • MrSneeze on 27 Apr, 2007, 20:20…
    Yeah, I remember him. He was the guy who created The Secret of the Planet of the Apes game.
  • maclaine on 28 Apr, 2007, 16:43…
    What is The Secret of The Planet of the Apes?
  • MrSneeze on 28 Apr, 2007, 16:50…
    We never find out.
  • Scummbuddy on 28 Apr, 2007, 20:58…
    I heard Rob told Tim Burton the secret, and that if you look closely to his movie, its in there.
  • clone2727 on 30 Apr, 2007, 01:32…
    I'm still trying to figure out that whole Thade Memorial at the end of the new Planet of the Apes...
  • MrSneeze on 30 Apr, 2007, 01:36…
    Apes managed to learn how to construct a spaceship after studying the broken one. Years later they launch themselves into the storm and travel earlier in time than the protagonist. They take over the then under-developed world, and that's how it ends.

    At least that was my understanding when I first saw it.
  • clone2727 on 30 Apr, 2007, 22:11…
    I've always had trouble with Time Travel concepts...

    Like in The Journeyman Project series, you go back in time into your old body that you previously used on your last trip to that time zone. But, doesn't that mean that the original never existed and then you couldn't travel back to take over the body...

    I think Guybrush explained it best in MI4 though :P
  • MrSneeze on 01 May, 2007, 01:29…
    It depends on how time, as a concept, is explained.

    MI4 never existed btw. It never did. NEVER!
  • jp-30 on 27 Apr, 2007, 20:14…
    Damn me and my gigantic fingers.