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This was a baffling round for me because of what went green when it did. Weird letters. π I beat #Mojole #89 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6 π€π€π€ππ€ ππ€π€ππ πππ€ππ πππππ https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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Thatβs awesome! Looks great.
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It was such a sadness, being told we had to use the new logo for Tales. I was glad to see Return⦠return to the original.
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Itβs rough The later telltale games do away with pretending to be point and click at all, and the earlier telltale games ARE point and click, but this middle ground of fake-direct-control-but-in-a-point-and-click-world is so rough to go back to. Unfortunately it includes Tales of MI and Sam & Max Season 3, two of my favorite Telltale games. I think itβs inaccurate to call this a βtelltale thing,β as it only truly happens in Tales of Monkey Island and was 100% due to size limitations of WiiWare games. In the Telltale Sam & Max games for example, the characters say what you pick with very few shortcuts taken (unless itβs a joke that your choice is subverted). Even the later Tales of MI chapters drop this, because it turned out to not save much space but created a notably bad experience. Telltale had plenty of cut corners but this wasnβt actually regularly one of them, it just really sticks out when it occurs, especially in Tales of MI chapter 1. I have no memory of it ending in a weird place, but agree itβs a sad arrangement. I think the music in Tales is under-appreciated because the actual final production of it is done so cheaply, but much of the composition and style of it is really good. The main theme, not as much. I replayed all of Tales last month and had the same reaction. Even when working on it I felt like the puzzles were a little lightweight but replaying it, theyβre way more legit than I remember. The presence of jungle mazes is never ever my favorite, but maybe with those aside, I think time has been kind to Talesβ difficulty level. The reuse will always drive me crazy. Itβs a thing that Telltale was known for (and was done because new character rigs and acting animation suites are actually very expensive to produce) but in Tales it went into absolute overdrive. The combination of the cast size needed for just the main characters, plus the Wiiβs 40 megabyte limit for downloadable games, made it nasty. As you said Winslow is one of the more egregious ones. I donβt think it was known that heβd be a recurring character until the season was underway (but even if it was know, I donβt think he would have got a new model because we were out of both budget and disk space). Same, I was surprised on replay to be reminded of how much there was. Probably the most music interactivity in any Telltale game? I know the team worked hard to do it. Thereβs no formal interactive music tools in Telltaleβs pipeline, or werenβt until post 2013 when I left, so instead gameplay programmers had to write their own music managers in LUA. That code got pretty advanced in Tales and Sam & Max S3, but was mostly gone by The Walking Dead, when music had devolved back down to largely being single loops or fire-and-forget stingers. I like that flotsam townβs music changes as you walk around, and then changes again when the pox blows in.
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Haha thank you! Iβve always been here. I was on Mojo and these forums for years before working at telltale
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(Moved some posts about anticipating the trailer to the trailer anticipation thread.)
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π I beat #Mojole #87 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6 π€π€π€π€π€ π€ππ€ππ€ πππππ€ πππππ https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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π¬ Eep ook ack! I failed at #Mojole #86. π€π€π€π€π€ ππ€π€π€π€ πππ€π€π€ ππππ€π€ ππππ€π€ πππππ€ https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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That looks fantastic!
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Guybrush talks to himself when alone and is 50% of most all conversations, so him having half-ish the script is probably the norm.
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Loom speedrun 144fps uncapped letβs go
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Monkey Island Soundtracks βΒ Album Covers
Jake replied to BillyCheers's topic in General Discussion
This looks awesome! The font you picked looks good but if youβre looking to mess around, you could try Post Antiqua Roman, which is the font used on the original disks and manual, if you want it to feel like an official piece of merchandise, though it might end up looking too βsameyβ in this context. -
Awesome! What a find, it looks beautiful. So now that we pooled together to buy these maps we can do NFTs of them right? Isnβt that how this works?
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I thought that part always played super fast! Maybe Iβm misremembering?
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π€ π I beat #Mojole #83 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 6/6 π€πππ€π€ πππ€π€π€ πππππ€ π€π€πππ πππππ πππππ https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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Not to sweatily defend Monkey Island as a location, but it being very βnormalβ in MI1 is kind of cool when the game is called βThe Secret of Monkey Island,β in that youβre spending all this time there, in an empty, silent, relatively normal place, all the time knowing that somewhere there is some deep dark secret to discover. (Iβd also argue Monkey Island doesnβt stay in oneβs memory as well as Melee but once youβre playing it thereβs a lot of good stuff. Iβd concede Melee is the more memorable part though.)
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Wow. π I beat #Mojole #82 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 6/6 ππ€π€π€π€ ππ€π€π€π€ πππ€π€π€ πππ€π€π€ πππ€π€π€ πππππ https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/
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This thread being packed full of people figuring out these obscure background assets is making me very happy Excited to see the Indy map next!
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Ive always liked how clean it is. The Rebel Assault box with the iridescent effects is one of my favorite Star Wars boxes.
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Okay I've scanned in the relevant page of the most accurate one I could get ahold of, which is still not perfect but its pretty dang close. 1990: Update: The 1993 map is actually probably correct? The printing makes it look like there's some subtle differences in line weight, but I dont think there actually are - it really is just the result of the ink going on a little heavier and the color matching being different. 1993: (It's not perfectly correct; the red index numbers above the roads don't line up with the HTR box, but seems to have more of the right roads.) I've uploaded them: Scans of the left and right sides of the 1990 and 1993 map can be found here.
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My unpopular opinion: I donβt like the new thumbs down emote.
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I think itβs simpler than that even: The people who are predisposed to talk about it on their own will do that; you donβt really need to give them any more (even though theyβll ask for it). But the people who are vaguely interested (but not totally tuned in or predisposed to care about your thing on autopilot) you only get a few shots at them before theyβre over saturated, before your marketing has diminishing returns. If you oversaturate too early you start hearing things like, βdidnβt that come out already?β I know itβs not always true, and this might not be what theyβre thinking, but I think generally itβs best to keep your powder dry and only do a few sparing attention-grabbing bursts of media until youβre ready to start telling everyone everything close to release (release date, cost, availability) or you lose people and then have to try harder to bring them back.
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I liked the big blocky one but also never thought the Gold Guy was a good logo. Itβs now a little fun in a kitschy 90s way, but it never made sense for the games group. Iβm honestly glad theyβre back to their original original logo. I think Mojo had a history of gold guy logo at some point that revealed it was foisted off on the games group because it was commissioned for a company-wide rebrand but was rejected, and they wanted to save the design work somehow? Fake edit: Found it, itβs the Gold Guy Exposed article.
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I bet not, even though it seems that way. There was the announcement trailer that blew up decently, then a good number of interviews that seemed redundant to us but did a good job of going wide with the news of the gamesβ existence, casting a broad net to scoop up more fans and get them on the same page. I suspect as we get closer to launch the rate of media will increase. I expected a trailer of some kind at the Devolver event and still expect one soonish, but donβt think there was some media blitz that got pushed back. I think the tuned in fans are just hungrier than normal people so for us it seems like starving off scraps, while for everyone else theyβre just not thinking about the game much, but will be once a bigger push starts closer to launch.