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If their animator request is to be taken literally, they’re using Spine, which is not a pixel art tool but is used for a hybrid of 2D animation and tween-style deformation of illustrations. It’s used by Size Five games (the latest Ben & Dan game for example) and can produce output similar to the animation in Broken Age. I’ll be clear here that I’ve never used Spine and don’t know all the contexts in which it’s used, but it’s definitely a general purpose 2D animation tool.

As mentioned earlier, my wife is playing through Curse of Monkey Island and thoroughly enjoying it. She has just lost the Blood Island "map" to Captain Rottingham and encountered the second-biggest time waster on the sea, the dreaded rhythmic shanty. She is now about to embark on insult swordfighting, against random pirate captains and then finally against Captain Rottingham himself. I was shocked to see that within the manual that comes with the game there is no space to track insults -- not even a Notes section on the last page. Just as well, within the official strategy guide there is no space to track your insults and retorts -- but are plainly written out (but shockingly not easily found within the guide). So I decided to whip up the following. These are essentially a first draft and also why I was hoping to get a larger quality version of Haggis in a separate thread here. Special thanks to: @Laserschwert for the upscaled and enhanced background art for CMI. Clearly I used the Game Options/Save background screens here. I wanted it to fit in with Guybrush's diary journal aesthetic as seen in the opening cutscene (seen here). Mojo Game Database - Curse concept art. The SCUMM Bar - Curse Insults list. Legend OF MI - Curse Insults list. Curse of Monkey Island - Official Strategy Guide Insults list. Ordinary Pirates - Empty page - For the CMI player who has never played before. Ordinary Pirates - All insults and retorts. Captain Rottingham - Empty page - For the CMI player who has never played before. Captain Rottingham - Half page - For the CMI player who has all of the retorts. Captain Rottingham - All advanced insults and retorts. I'll continue to play around with the design, adding in accent marks, and matching the shade of sketches to match across the pages (skeletons are maybe closer to what I want than the darker Barbary Coast pirates). If anyone wants the PSD file, I can make that available, specifically if someone wants to make language variations. Just looking for some opinions.

You’re right. I meant reaffirmed. 😉

I’ll check my bottle, which is from that party. It wasn’t a team launch party for the game itself, but a release event for the PS2 version with some press and Dominic Armato in attendance, held on a sailing ship on the SF bay. Old embarrassing Mojo article about it here. I was given a case of the beers which I kept for years and eventually sold a couple on eBay, but gave most away one day to interested co-workers at Telltale. Photo of the case of grog: I also have the Max shotglasses buried in my bar somewhere and will dig them out.

Hah. I loved Worms Armageddon back in the day. I even bought myself a nice big box edition for my collection just a few months ago. I do want to check out these speech packs. Max by himself could make for a good pack. Maybe purple and green tentacle too.

Not that he really needed to prove anything, but I get what you mean!

COMI isn't a 16-bit Windows game, so it should work fine on a 64-bit OS with some coaxing! You could try the setup program and launcher made by the excellent human at Quick and Easy Software: Installer Launcher Let us know how you get on!

Call me late to the party, but finding that this forum was revived made me decide to play through a Lucasarts game that wasn't Star Wars. Classic Star Wars games were basically my reason for being on this forum years ago, but I wanted to switch it up. I played the remake of The Secret of Monkey Island on my Xbox One and... WOW! I couldn't put it down. I haven't played a point-and-click style game in ages, but now I want more. I enjoyed that I was able to play the modern one and the original-style game at the same time... which was funny because I felt the old school one was easier to control. 😆 I'm sure these are things you guys have heard before but I just really wanted to share! Knowing that I went all these years not knowing who Guybrush Threepwood is makes me feel like I've been missing out. I knew this game would become special to me when the game explained that great swordsmen have to have witty retorts to win. While another playthrough is definitely in order, I can't wait to pick up LeChuck's Revenge. Then, who knows... so many classic games to choose from! 😶

Hi guys! As some of you who have me on Twitter know I have started a Twitch Channel where I have done playthroughs of Maniac Mansion Deluxe and Zak McKracken FM-Towns so far. I'm proud to say I have also launched my own Youtube Channel where you can currently see my MMD playthrough in digestible chunks, soon the Zak playthrough will be up as well. In addition to the streams I am planning to do a series of specials dedicated to the individual titles focusing on differences between versions, development factiods, etc. I also hope to reach out to our communities experts in the individual titles to see what they would want to see in such a retrospective and whether or not they would like to collaborate First up will be Maniac Mansion. I'm taking my time with the specials because I want them to be something built by the community. I dunno maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but I'm super excited to make my love letters to these wonderful games. even if noone watches I know it's going to be a lot of fun to put these together 🙂