Tag: Monkey Island
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Pixelhunter – Talk to…
Pixelhunter talks about talking in adventure games.
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Pixelhunter – Should Adventure Games Be Difficult?
After almost a decade of courting casual gamers, an interesting sea-change is taking place in the world of videogames… they are getting harder. Unexpected hits like Dark Souls and Super Meat Boy demonstrate a return to the challenge of early games with a heavy emphasis on skill, demonstrating that there is a significant audience out…
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Top of the Flops
The stench of sweat in the dark and musty room is overpowering, pervading my nostrils with every breath I take. It’s difficult to tell what time it was: we’ve been doing this for so long in the dingy, windowless club that time’s seemed to stop and congeal into an unrecognisable, indecipherable blob. Opposite me at…
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Double Fine Adventure
Tim Schafer has always been something of a maverick within the games industry. Although it had originally been conceived of as serious in tone, for instance, Schafer’s dialogue for The Secret of Monkey Island convinced Ron Gilbert to turn it into a comedy. Much later, after founding Double Fine Productions, Schafer responded to the commercial…