Hulabee Releases Two Games 18 Mar, 2002, 16:13 / Comments: 9
Hulabee Entertainment, the new children's software company founded by Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert, has released two of its new game titles for purchase. First, there's Moop and Dreadly: The Treasure on Bing Bong Island, a children's adventure game involving pirates and a big, purple... thing. Ollo in the Sunny Valley Fair is another title involving an escaped giant tomato.
Both of these games were written by Dave Grossman, who was heavily involved in such classics as the first two Monkey Island games and Day of the Tentacle. Mac and PC demos are available from Hulabee.com, so go check them out!
Well done Hulabee Entertainment. The game use MI related things like one-lines and the whole pirate thing. If I am not mistaken that is. It's just my guess.
Well I could review it a little if anyone would care to read..
It's seems to be a very good game for kids in the age of 8-12 or ..uhm even 20. haha.
I liked it. The preview was only the first chapter of the game but it had some of the special good stuff I remember from Day of the Tentacle and the MI3 art direction. Grossman among others is to thank for that I guess. The art as is colours and perspective was very good. The background art was very good but the character art could have been better. The music was also very good. The first chapter was just the first chapter and didnt have very much audio, but the features ones were very good. The so called 'edutaiment' in the game was ok I guess. Simple but good problems to solve. The dialog could have been a bit better at some placesI guess, but then I am comparing to MI3.
Anyhow, fun and pirates are the themes for this game as I see it. Made for kids, in any age.
End of mini review.
a mixnmojo review of "Moop and Dreadly:
The Treasure on Bing Bong Island" would be an interesting reading. like how much of this game is an continuiation from MI1 and MI2, and if even an 20 year old can enjoy this stuff and not just 9 year olds.
I'm dowloading their demo preview now so I'll perhaps get my answers there..