Telltale has released three new screenshots from the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island, which you can check out in the occasionally not broken Mojo gallery. Sweet.
Posted by Jason
You should probably just not watch this as the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island comes out a mere seven days from now, but those of you who want to plunder the spoilerific surprises of (I assume to be) the game’s opening sequence can follow this link to Gamespot’s exclusive video footage of it. Don’t watch this.
Yarr!
Update: It’s no longer quite so exclusive, with Telltale putting it up on their blog in handy Youtube form.
Posted by Jason
Monkey Island/Deathspank creator Ron Gilbert will be keynoting at PAX this year. What he will keynote about, and whether or not we can get a good transcript of said keynote, is a bit of a mystery at the moment. Still, Ron Gilbert! He had his name on the front of the Monkey Island box and everything.
Posted by Kroms
Remember that Kombo Breaker web site? Nor do I, but they’ve recently launched a podcast episode with our friends and companions at TTG, Mike Stemmle and Emily Mort… Morgt… Morganti.
I mean, really, stop reading this, and go listen!
Posted by MrManager
So on the 7th, we get Tales of Monkey Island – then, a week later it’s The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Well, at least if this is to be believed. Thanks to Nickelstein over on our forum for pointing this out.
As many of you have mentioned, releasing the Special Edition after TMI seems like a bad move on LucasArts’ part. The game is clearly ready to roll, and it’s a digital distribution so… what’s the wait?
But LucasArts are experts on the adventure game marketplace, and I can’t even figure out what time the sun sets on Melee Island. So we’ll wait and see on this one, I suppose…
But yeah, let’s not end this on a sour note: the preliminary report is that MI:SE will be available from the 15th of July, and that is awesome.
Posted by elTee
Out of blue, from Microsoft to you: MONKEY ISLAND: SPECIAL EDITION – the E3 Preview Video.
You weren’t expecting the actual game, were you? Still plenty of time for Marketplace Realities yet…
Of note is the fact that they chose to use an image made by LucasForums member parabolee, rather than any official artwork. The Mojo lawyers are considering the legal impact of sending an ironic ‘cease and desist’ letter to LucasArts as we speak.
Check it all out here.
Posted by elTee
On the lucas forums, user parabolee has pointed out that GameSetWatch has a nice overview article about the Monkey Island series. Tales of Monkey Island also gets a mention, as do Laserschwert’s massive posters.
It’s a gorgeous looking game, though. Not just for something that’s almost 18 years old – it is genuinely stunning. I’m glad they never released it in EGA form, and really, it’s quite possible that they weren’t able to technically – the level of detail probably relies on things like, you know, more than 16 colours.If you’re looking for that second link that’s identical to the first link that we at Mojo tend to post after the quote, here it is.
Posted by jp-30
Adventuregamers has a brand new Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island preview, and an interview with Bill Tiller.
the idea of Ghost Pirates came from an idea we bandied about at LucasArts to play three different Monkey Island characters in one game, to see the adventure through their eyes.Go read it.
Posted by jp-30
Want to see the TMI chapter screen?
Spoil ahead then!
And don’t tell me you didn’t hum the chapter tune too.
Now let’s all tell Jake to clean his desk. (I assume it’s his desk.)
Posted by MrManager
A few days back Mark Darin, the Co-Lead Designer for Tales of Monkey Island, held a Q&A session on the Facebook wall of the Monkey Island Adventures page. It’s buried now, and a bit of a jumble, so head on over to the Telltale forums where member tomo_cjt has cleaned it up and edited out the dross and posted it for your reading pleasure.
Tingler Updates: To save making another similar post, Eurogamer have an interview with Dave Grossman about the game, with a few new screenshots!
Of particular note is why Tim Schafer’s not involved (apparently Ron’s involvement caused some legal problems) and Dave’s surprised “no comment” when asked if they would be doing an Indiana Jones game…
Posted by jp-30
As The Pumpkin Post will tell you, Ghost Pirates publisher dtp has put up a teaser site for the game. At the moment it’s got nothing to offer but some pirate jokes, but hey, at least it exists.
There’s also apparently some new concept art among this stash, hosted by GamersHell, most significantly a big image of the main cast. And as long as you’re in a Tiller mood, you may appreciate a reminder about that AVS artbook that’s for sale.
Posted by Jason
In little under an hour people at LucasArts will play the special edition of The Secret of Monkey Island over at Justin.tv
Update: Complete video: part 1, 2, 3, 4.
Posted by Zaarin
According to LucasArts’ Brooks Brown, via Kotaku:
“If this sells, there’s no one at this company who doesn’t want to do these games. It’s a matter of showing that there’s interest and this market is alive and get people as excited as possible about Monkey Island Special Edition to show that these things can make it.”So, simply put: if Monkey Island Special Edition sells, we get more special editions. Nothing is planned right now, but they do want to do it. If that “marketplace realities” thing is false, LucasArts will continue making adventure games.
Posted by The Tingler
Jesse Harlin, the main man behind the new music in The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition has kindly answered some questions, as asked by Laserschwert.
There’s loads of insightful insights to be had, including a few references to this humble domain and its hosted sites.
Read all about it!
Posted by Gabez
Copyright © 1996-2009 The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar. Contact us. Return to top.
As we were making the game, there was a thread on the Scumm Bar about how we were making Curse of Monkey Island in something called "SCUMM 3D." So naturally, we added the "3D" mode in the menu options (which did nothing, because there was never anything called SCUMM 3D). So, in a way, the Scumm Bar contributed to our game.
- Jonathan Ackley, CMI co-lead (16th June 2003)
