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It's an honor to be nominated. I feel like I could... like I could... like I could... TAKE ON THE WORLD!!

Walmaker1987 on the LucasArts Adventure Fans discord (the 1987th of his name) has been putting Psychonauts into Day of the Tentacle: (Amended to rudely copy-and-paste from Discord, rather than rudely hotlinking from Discord which stopped working after a couple of days! I should have seen that coming, and kinda did.) Which is pretty Raz. Er, rad. HOLD ON. That's the same guy as "somebody on Tumblr"! What are the chances? Pretty high I guess, because @EricMahler's post must have reminded me of the Psychonauts stuff without me realising. Oh well! It's good stuff.

Double Fine had "an oddly GOTHIC holiday party" this year. https://bsky.app/profile/doublefine.com/post/3lcvmelhcyc2x

I suppose you could hand in your resignation; just don't expect a severance package or gold watch or anything. (The CEO might give you a firm handshake?) That aside, only those who posted news over the last year are on the list. 🤷

As I'm not on this list, does it mean I can win the prizes?

This is really no contest. Indy gave Jason so much ammunition, he’ll blow it out of the park… (or Egyptian tomb or ship on a snowy mountain or whatever).

I've been away for a bit (although always keeping up with this site), but I figured I'd join in on the fun again. I just reached the second 'level' (or whatever you would call it) of Great Circle, and it's just a real blast. In many ways it's kind of a dream game for me. The exploration is really fun and rewarding, but most notably the tone is exactly right. I'm just really impressed with the writing in this. 90s Spielberg is hard to get right (although they keep trying), but I feel they're as close as they can be in this one. It's hard for me to find the time for big games like this (I even started Outlaws, and enjoyed (parts of) it, but that's one example of a game that's too big and therefore hard to keep my attention). Most of all, it's just really fun. For some reason playing this game triggered me to start watching the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles again. It's been ages, parts of it really don't work, but some of it is actually really impressive for a tv show of that time. You can see a lot of what George would later try to do in the Star Wars prequels/Clone Wars. Cozy winter television. It gave my end of the year a real Indiana Jones flavor, and I'm very happy to have such a joyful thing at the end of a very weird year.

Perhaps I should have credited him by name instead of just saying "some guy". Either way, glad it jogged your memory. This is excellent stuff! Fun to image a world where this was a real game one could play.

Here's a nice holiday themed thing made by somebody on Tumblr : https://www.tumblr.com/walmaker-artist/769335154757992448/the-edisons-are-well-prepared-for-christmas-this?source=share

Which tome got your blood boiling? Multiple choices are, once again, allowed because picking your favorite article is sort of like picking your favorite child. Demystifying the Lucasfilm Learning Division ICYMI: Return to Monkey Island Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Review Monkey Island 2: Into the Weeds of What Could Have Been Relitigating Brütal Legend Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered Review The Secret of Cogg Island Your vote will award you one (1) entry in Mojo’s Double Fine Extravaganza contest. (Some restrictions apply, void where prohibited.)

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land Moving over from off-topicking my own Sam & Max soundtrack thread, here's the dedicated thread to my remastering project of the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis soundtrack. To be fair, with several unfinished projects in the works, I can't guarantee anything, though. As stated in that other thread, in my opinion, all remasters or re-arrangements of this soundtrack (even the most recent ones, sorry!) fell flat in a big way. Using fancy virtual instruments isn't all there is to it, if you can't even get the performance of the most essential part of any Indy soundtrack right: the brass. Especially the trumpets playing the A and B themes of the Raiders March (which, as you die-hard fans might know, is the actual name of the Indiana Jones theme). Originally composed by John Williams as two options for the main theme, the B theme turned into the bridge of the track, since Spielberg liked both enough to be used. So, to make sure that I could actually do better, I tried my hands on the playable introduction of the game, which opens to the Indiana Jones logo with the A theme, followed by some sneaky underscore while you rummage the Barnett College's attic in search of some unknown artifact. As Indy gets knocked down and comes crashing through the ceiling of another floor, our unconscious hero gets a rest while the B theme accompanies a few more on-screen credits. This back and forth between suspenseful underscore and jump-scare transitions to different versions of the B theme culminates in Indy finding the horned Atlantean statue to a rousing crescendo that fades out while Indy leaves the college's main building to deliver the artifact to his mysterious accent-wielding client in his on-campus office. Was I actually successful in turning the MT-32 beeps and boops into something properly orchestral? You decide: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land A bit of tech-talk: For this I didn't use any of the pre-arranged MIDIs that were released over the years, instead I started with clean rips of all the iMUSE snippets of this game (courtesy of @Serge), which I've combined and arranged from scratch. The introduction already consisted of 11 different cues I needed to combine, and VGMRip's AdLib rip of the music (and some Let's Plays on YouTube) provided a great template. As far as software and virtual instruments go, I'm using Reaper as my DAW and mainly East West's Hollywood Orchestra series, Project Sam's LA Scoring Strings and VSL's Fanfare Trumpets, with a few additional instruments here and there. Anyway, with the main theme out of the way, my plan is to tackle the end credits suite next, as it lets me get my hands on several different themes from the game in one go (plus another go at the Raiders March, yay!).