The International House of Mojo

No edit button? Well sorry for the typos, was typing from my smartphone.

Well RMI is using the Delores engine, which has full support for FMOD.
Then again, KestrelPi has a good point, don't expect EXACTLY the level if interactivity they offered with iMuse. FMOD can do that, but it doesn't mean it will for this game.
Although, knowing the Land, McConnell and Bajakian, I expect something extraordinary anyway!

Sad that he had to do this—I take it people in a state of emotional adolescence had opinions?—but I can't wait for the game and to play it on its own terms. It looks good!

Even LucasArts reduced how involved iMuse was in later games. I seriously doubt they'd go to the insane levels of luxurious detail that MI2 had. It will be more likely how it was handled with later digital audio games, if at all. (I can't remember if Thimbleweed Park had any dynamic music?)

Well, let's not get carried away. The quote from the article says the music is interactive, so we can definitely expect soem sort of responsiveness to what's going on on the screen. I wouldn't be surprised for example if we saw some blending between different mixes of music and so forth, depending on where Guybrush is in a town.

I'd be a bit surprised though if it's the level of detail that we saw in MI2 because that's just really difficult to do without Midi, especially when making a soundtrack with live instruments, because you'd have to record so many different transitions and endings and edit them to be able to blend seamlessly.

fmod and tools like it are useful middleware for hooking music and other elements up to a game, but lots of games use it that don't have any significant interactivity in the soundtrack at all, so we can't infer JUST from the use of fmod that the soundtrack is going to be highly iMUSE like.

I think the most likely thing is that they've but something together which is inspired by some of the interactive elements of MI2, with some layers and transitions to it, but not really at the level of complexity we saw in that game. Which is fine - even at the time they said MI2's soundtrack was too much work for too little benefit and as much as I love what they did, I don't expect them to repeat that feat in digital audio (frankly I'm surprised the Special Edition was able to implement woodtick as well as it did)

Woooah really?! Where'd you hear that? That's seriously exciting, I was kinda resigning myself to them not having anything like that in this game since it'sno longer MIDI.

Yeah, they're using FMOD, so definitely an iMuse-like approach.

Considering that in this instance Disney are merely the IP rights holder and Devolver are the publisher, I think there's a higher possibility that it'll end up on GOG. All their recent releases as well as pre-orders for Trek to Yomi are on there. Also, all of Double Fine's Lucasarts remasters were on there from day one.

I hadn't considered that possibility. I know a fair few Disney published games are on GOG but they're older legacy titles (horribly overpriced as well - the bloomin' greedy Mouse). I'm not sure if Disney publishes new releases to GOG. I hope they do, as I really want to support the game but I have a firm anti-DRM policy and if it's Steam or nothing, then I will be left with little recourse but to pirate the game (seems oddly apt, but I really don't want to).

The gaming community has that exact problem. I thought the Monkey Island fans were exempt: After all, we were waiting for a new MI for 13 years and are now getting one with Ron Gilbert at the helm, Dave Grossman to boot, all the composers back on board. Jackpot, all stars aligned, all the dice show sixes, all the monkeys have three heads.

But nooo. I had a bit of a difficult time with the graphics too, but I always acknowledged that Crowle knows his sh*t inside out and the character designs we've seen were incredible. I guess when people started voicing criticism of the "cheap mobile game" type, I was jumping to the right side immediately.

I'm looking forward to ReMI like no other game in years. If they don't release on GOG "because Disney", I'm going to kill myself.

It's sad but predictable a certain segment of the fans had to react so negatively and outraged immediately. But that's just what happens on the internet with any existing franchise trying something new these days (or maybe that was always the case). Hopefully Ron & the team see the very excited responses as well. Knights & Bikes shows how beautiful Rex's art is ingame, and what little we see in that teaser trailer promises a lot of personality and detail in the animation (especially looking at the details in that violin ghost).

The music being interactive is interesting. Could they be going for some iMuse-like system?

I'm sad that he had to write that, but hear hear. So much of fandom - across the board - has this problem. I think it's at least in part because of the access we have to creators now. It's a really doubled edged sword.