Tim Schafer has just dropped a pretty awesome surprise on our laps to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Grim Fandango: the original Grim Fandango puzzle/design document.
Written in 1996, this mostly-complete document details the cut-scenes and puzzles in the game. What makes this particularly fascinating is that it's packed with concept art and descriptions of scenes/puzzles that were cut from the game, giving us an insight into a slightly different Grim Fandango.
Any Grim Fandango fan is sure to want to put this aside for 72 pages of superb toilet reading, so be sure to grab the document at once.
Update by Kroms: It seems to have gone offline. I guess, as Mr. Schafer hints: he didn't own it.
Source: Double Fine Action News
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johnyymathew
house for sale by owner
And Hi, it's been a while :)
I am so happy that I downloaded and saved it on several hard disks, muhaha.
"Imagine what we could for some next big LucasArts game Anniversary."
you mean, what we could get? i guess nothing, after that episode with tim an lucas arts.
There was nothing wrong with your previous comment. I just attached myself to it like a bloodsucker ;) to contrast the joy of still having the file with unhappiness in regard to the future consequences of this situation.
At least that's what the fanboy in me wants him to do.
Shhh, nobody tell LucasArts.
well, i rather have the pdf on my hard disk now than ask around in some years in the hope someone has the file.
I'm really curious to the look the deleted puzzles would've had.
Especially the one involving Manny's brother.
A lot of other stuff is cleared up too. I didn't know Carla was the guard of the portal to the Land of the Living.
Really interesting document alltogether!
Thanks Tim!
I wish I had them all in high res, so I could hang them through the whole house!
Now I only have one in my room...
What else am I supposed to wipe with?
"We didn’t have the last puzzle designed when I wrote that document, so I wrote two nonsense paragraphs and then overlapped them in the file so it would look like the final puzzle description was in there, but obscured by a print formatting error. That way I could turn the document in by the deadline. As if anybody was going to read it all the way to the end anyway. Ha ha. Obfuscation triumphs again! I delight in Evil!"
that is awesome