martes, 27 de diciembre de 2016

Monkey Island Saga:

When we talk about Monkey Island we’re talking about LucasArts great masterpiece created by Ron Gilbert, Tim Schaffer and Dave Grossman. For those who may not know about the game, Monkey Island is considered one of the most important Point ‘n’ Click Adventures ever released. Most of this success remains in its excellent script and the superb use of a nonsense humour.


Plot:

The Secret of Monkey Island

The game starts with the main character Guybrush Threepwood stating "I want to be a pirate!" To do so, he must prove himself to three old pirate captains.He also meets the beautiful governor Elaine Marley, with whom he falls in love, unaware that the ghost pirate LeChuck also has his eyes on her. When Elaine is kidnapped, Guybrush procures crew and ship to track LeChuck down, defeat him and rescue his love.


About the Authors:


Ron Gilbert:


He is an American Game Designer Programmer and Producer whose games (Maniac Mansions, and the first two Monkey Island games...) are mainly focused on interactive story-telling. Some of the most remarkable facts around him are that he co-created the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion (SCUMM), a videogame engine, while he was working at Lucasfilm Games. He was also one of the first developers that included cut-scenes in his games. Right now he’s working in a game called Thimbleweed Park.



Tim Schaffer:

Tim Schaffer is an American Game Designer, he is best known as the designer of Grim Fandango, Monkey Island saga, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend or Day of the Tentacle. His unique storytelling and comedic writing style have made him a reference among Game designers.



Specs:

The VGA version of the game removed some jokes related to disks nº22, 36 and 114 and also added a 256 color support (in the EGA version only 16 were allowed). For this game SCUMM Engine was also updated to provide some more features such as key shortcuts or dialog trees.

Facts:

1. Series creator Ron Gilbert would love to make a third instalment called Monkey Island 3a, which would ignore all Monkey Island Games after LeChuck’s Revenge. However, Gilbert would only make the game if he could acquire the IP from Disney.

2. The “real” secret of Monkey Island has never been revealed. Series creator Ron Gilbert intended to reveal the secret at the end of the third instalment, but left the company after LeChuck’s Revenge.

3. There is a secret code in The Secret of Monkey Island that allows the player to instantly win the game if the player presses CTRL+SHIFT+W.

4. Guybrush’s first name came about from the game’s artist, who was using a program called Deluxe Paint. This program saved files as “brush” files. When designing the main character, who was still unnamed, the file was saved as “guy.brush” and a hero was born.



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