Fellow LucasArts Fan Network site Adventure Developers have a new feature up called "Just like Monkey Island," where freetime designer Deirdra Kiai describes how the Monkey Island games inspired her to write, animate, draw, design and dance. I think we can all testify to how those games inspired us to become the animators, artists and dancers that we are today. If you haven?t played Monkey Island, then
Also on the news is Haggis? excellent Vampyre Story blog, where he scooped an interview with Bill Von Tiller:
"One Sunday when I was working, it was all quiet upstairs when I heard this huge bang that scared the? stuffing out of me! I jumped right out my seat and yelled, "That?s too loud!" I thought some guys were moving furniture around upstairs because that is what is sounded like. Anyway, it turned out that Leo was doing his show and was sitting on a big exercise ball and it popped, sending him crashing to floor while he was broadcasting on the air! And all his listeners heard me shout. I felt very embarrassed for being so scared..."Read the whole story here, with a brand new screenshot to boot.