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Making Maniac mansion 18 Aug, 2010 / 3 comments

The Edge magazine has a lovely retrospective article online regarding the making of Maniac Mansion.

“The story and original idea,” recalls Gilbert, “came from both Gary Winnick [the game’s celebrated artist] and I. We both liked strange humour and were big fans of campy horror movies.” Winnick concurs, narrowing the field to, “teenage horror movies where the kids always split up and go off into the dark recesses of a scary location on their own. I remember the first inspirational picture I drew – an exterior of a scary house with the sign ‘WARNING: TRESPASSERS WILL BE HORRIBLY MUTILATED’ out front as a joke – actually made it into the final game.”



And while you're here, you might enjoy this Monkey Island comic. Take a look at some of the background objects too...

Thanks to Ron Gilbert's twitter feed for both tipoffs.

Source: The Edge

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    clone2727 on 19 Aug, 2010, 14:18…

    Jason

    That small bit of Winnick concept art is definitely never before seen.

    Let's add it to the Mojo gallery! Oh, right...


    (Don't kill me, Zaarin! :P)
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    Jason on 18 Aug, 2010, 12:20…
    That small bit of Winnick concept art is definitely never before seen.
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    The Tingler on 18 Aug, 2010, 11:26…
    Wow, two multiformat UK mags doing LucasArts retrospectives this month! Excellent!

    Nice comic too.

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