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Omnium gatherum 18 Jan, 2008, 20:59 / 10 comments

By Gabez


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!)
    Me lucky charms. Do you think Irish people get annoyed at this sort of thing?

  • 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
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10 Comments

  • Udvarnoky on 19 Jan, 2008, 04:33…
    Love those new AVS screenshots!
  • The Tingler on 19 Jan, 2008, 01:13…
    Welcome Zaarin! And if you get the Indy Infernal Machine soundtrack on there I'll persuade Gabez to make sweet love to you!
  • Zaarin on 19 Jan, 2008, 01:25…
    I have a feeling I'll get some nasty letters of the judicial kind if I put that up!
  • clone2727 on 19 Jan, 2008, 01:23…
    It probably wouldn't be too hard. The *.gob format is documented on the internet.

    Not that I'm volunteering...
  • Zaarin on 19 Jan, 2008, 03:22…
    Yeah, opening the GOB files are easy. The music is in the CND files, but I have no idea how to decode them.

    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.
  • Zaarin on 19 Jan, 2008, 03:30…
    Never mind. I found me a tool to extract it. Not sure if it extracts everything, but it got the music. For some reason some of it's in only 11 kHz, which sounds a bit crap.
  • neon_git on 19 Jan, 2008, 00:11…
    Oh blimey, right here we go ...

    ?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 :)
  • Opera01 on 18 Jan, 2008, 21:25…
    :-(
  • Opera01 on 18 Jan, 2008, 21:11…
    How many news about AVS. But,is a REAL release date known?
  • Gabez on 18 Jan, 2008, 21:15…
    According to our recent chat with Bill Tiller, no month has been decided on yet. The programming will be done at the end of February, but what's unsure is how much testing will be needed after that. My guess is April or May, but I have no idea how long these things take!