Big news on my SCUMM documentary project this week: Ron Gilbert (@grumpygamer) is among our first batch of confirmed interviews, along with designers @DavidBFox and Tami Borowick, programmer Aric Wilmunder, and artist-extraordinaire Mark Ferrari.
There's a great write-up at Adventure Game Hotspot with all the details: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/announcement/5936/sign-up-available-for-passport-to-adventure-the-scumm-story
@MossRC Thank you for doing this! The LucasArts games were a huge part of my childhood, and nearly all of them are masterpieces. I still replay them whenever I can.
On a sidenote - don’t hesitate to let me know if you need a composer :)
@eirikmyhr Which one is your favourite?
I'll let you know on the composer front, but note that we'd be talking to the TerrorBytes composer first, I expect, and he's already told me he'd like to collaborate again — so there's a pretty good chance we'd work with him here too.
@MossRC Oh, so hard to choose just one!! Monkey Island 2 would be high on the list. And from a much later era, Grim Fandango as well. DOTT is fantastic, and the first one I played, Loom, is just so beautiful. Even my parents, at the time not at all interested in games, watched me play through some of it, and were like "Damn... This game is outright poetic". Every game just has its own personality. You have stuff like The Dig and Full Throttle... So different, and all of them are just great pieces of art. Right now I really need to replay Zak, as I think its sharp, satirical humour in such a game was way, way ahead of its time.
Soundtrack-wise, Michael Z. Land's music from MI3 is a high point for me, when he brought in all these wonderful session musicians on oboe, accordion, steel drums etc... And all the arrangements are so great! THIS is the real pirate sound to me, not this Hans Zimmer gibberish. ;)
Thanks! That naturally makes sense. Best of luck with the startup! I will absolutely be backing this project once it launches.
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