I have a few pieces of miscellaneous news that I'd like to share with you, my internet babies.
- n0n4m3 from #monkey-island (irc.gamesurge.net ? join now!) has been busy hatching some Monkey Island t-shirts that you can see here, here and here. And there. They're very nice looking, and show what you can do with a few simple images and some plain t-shirts.
- I was doing a Google image search for A Vampyre Story the other day and came across this image from 2007's Halloween. It's great the way that Mona's clutching Leo's shoulders -- and I hadn't seen it before. Leo is a radio talk show host who works upstairs in the Autumn Moon cottage (as we learnt from this interview at The Pumpkin Post)
- Speaking of The Pumpkin Post: they reported that Gamers Hell have new screenshots of A Vampyre Story to be seen (with your eyes) over this way.
- Speaking of A Vampyre Story and therefore by extension Bill Tiller -- Bill Tiller e-mailed me months ago with a screenshot of the Lucky Charms web-site (presented below) that shows clouds very similar to the famous curly ones in the last two Monkey Island games. Just a coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not! You can still see the curly clouds on the web-site (which incidentally heavily implies that you should go take some exercise if you spent more than a few minutes on the site -- pretty damn cheeky if you ask me!)
- On the subject of food companies possibly being influenced by LucasArts+ games: "gamekill" on the Telltale forums noticed that a free sticker pack bares more than a passing resemblance to Max.
- Lastly, Zaarin (who is incidentally the latest addition to our 'staff' -- hello!) updated his long running hosted site, SoundFont Island, renaming it Soundtrack Island. Old content is being re-uploaded, but there's already a lot of very nice music. The site has a new design by ME (except someone else did the clouds and logo -- Zaar, plz edit this to make me sound less idiotic).
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"Edition", my arse!
Detypoed!
--Zaarin
Not that I'm volunteering...
Seems to be a non-16-bit format because when I run a basic 16-bit parser on them, I get sound, but it is distorted almost all the time because it's always at digital maximum.
?Awesome, I want the three headed monkey shirt!
?It's always good to get on with your neighbours. Paticularly in this case as it suggests Bill still gets to take some time off and socialise at least a *little* bit.
Also, THAT'S TOO LOUD!
?I am now officially super excited for this game. It's so beautiful I could melt.
?Intriguing, I'd like to see a side by side comparison of the maps there too. Not that I'm going to shout about anyone stealing ideas, I'm just curious.
?Machinations! Now this sort of is stealing. And by sort of I mean is. Yes the sentance no has two is's, but that's just how strongly I feel.
?Oh lovely, very nice, and you have the loom audio drama too! I don't actually own a tape player any more, and the tape is probably a little the orse for wear by now anyway :)