Tim Shafer and Ron Gilbert discuss adventure games

[Erwin_Br]

A few weeks prior to launching his record-shattering Kickstarter campaign for a new Point-n-Click Graphic Adventure game, Tim Schafer sat down with his old boss and mentor, Ron Gilbert. Together, they look back on the genre they helped define and discussed what they did right, where they went wrong, and how they'll do things differently moving forward with the new game.

Watch the 35 minute recording of the very interesting discussion here:

[Angry Gobbler]

Wow, thanks a lot Erwin for posting this one.  Really interesting.

I just realised that the real curse of Monkey Island is that it is "the"(or one of) game that everyone looks up to and would like to replicate.

This is not bad as such but I reckon that we don't go deep enough into what made the game(or any of the other classics) so fun, maybe use that element as a starting point to do something totally different and unique.

There is a lot of tendency of looking back which hinders too many projects (a phenomenon I also observed in other genres with some of the older programmers who would be nostalgic about the older days, where they actually were the "designer"(a title that didn't exist)).

[Erwin_Br]

Update: A blooper reel of Tim Schafer's pitch video: