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The Return Of The Gilbert (Maybe) 14 Jul, 2004 / Comments: 13

By DJG


A new interview reveals that Ron Gilbert is going back to mainstream gaming and that a publishing deal is about to be signed.

The Austrian radio channel FM4 is airing a series of programs on "the renaissance of graphic adventures", which today will consist of an interview with Ron Gilbert. A German transcript of it is available here. In it, Ron says he's going to make a game for adults (i.e. not a kids game), though implied that it won't be an adventure game.

Besides that, no one can honestly say what's going on. Ron Gilbert continued doing children's games (together with Dave Grossman) for some time. The website of Hulabee Entertainment hadn't been updated for ages though, and recently changed back to just a logo.

Besides a selection from the usual topics (violence in games, whether Myst killed adventure games, comparisons between games and other media) the interview contains a few other tidbits of note. Ron attributes the best dialog in any adventure game to Tim Schafer for Grim Fandango. Also, when asked to "explain the tentacles" from Maniac Mansion, he said: "because they're so phallic."

To be continued, no doubt. (On his new game, that is.)

Source: Adventure-Treff

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13 Comments

  • csenosiain on 01 Aug, 2004, 16:54…
    Hey, I played the MI games as a kid, does that mean MI games are kid's games? I hope not.


    BTW, imagine a Ron Gilbert FPS
  • Kolzig on 22 Jul, 2004, 14:54…
    It's going to be interesting to see what Ron Gilbert has developed.
  • Carlius on 19 Jul, 2004, 13:26…
    Hey I'm excited, Ron is great, almost as great as Tim so I'm happy he's making a return to adultgaming.
  • Carlius on 19 Jul, 2004, 13:28…
    damn, really sorry for multiposting, but it seemed like the comment wasn't added. ;(
  • Carlius on 19 Jul, 2004, 13:26…
    Hey I'm excited, Ron is great, almost as great as Tim so I'm happy he's making a return to adultgaming.
  • Carlius on 19 Jul, 2004, 13:25…
    Hey I'm excited, Ron is great, almost as great as Tim so I'm happy he's making a return to adultgaming.
  • DasJan on 19 Jul, 2004, 10:31…
    By the way, I think you didn't mention Ron's blog yet: http://www.grumpygamer.com
  • Bobo Donkey? on 15 Jul, 2004, 13:57…
    "whether Myst killed adventure games" Now thats new to me. And what does "phallic" mean?
  • Marek on 16 Jul, 2004, 09:43…
    In adventure-genre related clich? arguments, "Myst killed the genre" is probably in the top 3.

    Phallic means "try a dictionary".
  • Marek on 15 Jul, 2004, 11:02…
    Only two comments? C'mon, you can do better than that!
  • LucasTones on 14 Jul, 2004, 15:21…
    Ron making a new game, woo. If he's anything like schafer, it'll be a looooooooong time before we play it.
  • JBRAA on 14 Jul, 2004, 15:14…
    Read it in english here: http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://fm4.orf.at/knoke/170025/main&prev=/language_tools
  • Bobo Donkey? on 15 Jul, 2004, 14:08…
    Translation isn't perfect. But it fun to be for laugh }:?) heh heh