The International House of Mojo

Thanks to Adventure Gamers for providing a heads-up to a new interview with David Fox at Aventura y C?A, an early LucasFilm Games employee who worked on Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, etc.

I really wanted to do a game that dealt with a lot of "New Age" ideas. I actually spent time with David Spangler, a well-known author who dealt with spiritual awareness. We decided we wanted to put every concept we could think of into the game - every spiritual or psychic mystery currently being explored. But it wasn?t until a month or so later that we figured out how to tie it all together by making Zak a reporter for a sleazy tabloid. That added an edge to the game, and unified the comedy, setting the style for the entire game.

Also, I set out to make the game feel much broader than MM - after all, I had spent months stuck in that mansion programming the game. I wanted to see the world, and take the audience along with me :-)

Well, that's my first ever news post at Mixnmojo (that wasn't cut-and-pasted from a forum thread by someone else :-P ), so I hope I didn't screw up the markup & spelling and have to live forever in shame. So anyways, a big Mixnmojo welcome to me! Nice to start my career here with a story about Lucas Classic Adventures.