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For whatever it’s worth, Escape and Tales both had 3D characters and used the same basic effect as Sea of Thieves for Stan’s coat.

Sea of thieves is on pc as well!

Given it’s a crossover event expansion for an unrelated MMO, I hope it’s more love letter, vibes, etc, and not trying to do a lot new with the series. (Hope it’s more “what if” than trying to stake a claim in continuity.) It’s fun reading interviews and tweets from the team, who are all clearly excited.

Weird name for a new Psychonauts game but in Tim we trust.

I will take the bait laid out in this thread and say that “actually when you think about it many classic lucasarts games don’t have good stories,” is a deranged take. I won’t reply to any replies to this post.

Wow

I remain excited, maybe delusionally.

Somehow time keeps passing, and it’s been over 25 years since Mixnmojo opened. Jason got a bunch of past and present staff to take a look back over the decades and pick their favorite articles from the site. (I took the most harassing to turn in my homework!) https://mixnmojo.com/features/sitefeatures/25-Years-of-Mojo-Staff-Picks Not sure if anyone else has any Mojo nostalgia, as that is admittedly a weird thing to have, but if you do, drop some memories or trivia or whatever it is in here.

I really liked the needle drop. All the 60s period decor seems really well done. They’re going for all the banal parts and hitting it well. Indy’s living room looks perfect for where he presumably is in his life.

Man that poster would look much better with some version of the original logo.

It’s his hip bone and his coat does show his skeleton underneath. (You can see it more clearly in paintings done by Purcell around that time.) It doesn’t make any sense but it’s an awesome design.

Wow that MI2 guybrush looks awesome.

Which thing did he go with? LeChuck has the wedding gown in his quarters, yes, which is creepy as hell, but he again doesn’t really care about Elaine as part of the plot or most of his dialog. It feels closer to MI1 and 2, where mostly he is interested in obtaining power/treasure, and smushing Guybrush.

Some people just want to look at a shelf near their desk and see a bunch of things they like to think about. If the thing you like is “I hunted this down on eBay and second hand shops for four years, and it’s from the original run!!!” amazing, good for you. Many people love to buy first edition books for this reason. They do have something special to them. But some people just want any copy of the thing. Some people like all the little extra drop-ins. Some people like that this new release is going to be consistently designed to make a matching shelf. Not everyone is the same. Saying “I just don’t get why someone else would like this” is disingenuous at best or self-damning at worst because all it really means is “I don’t like this.” If you don’t like that someone else likes it, get over yourself. If you really truly genuinely can’t see the world through someone else’s eyes enough to imagine what fun they might see in a thing you don’t like as small as a re-release of a retro game, it’s maybe time for some serious self reflection.

Okay.

Based on earlier posts from Ron, the tile set seems to be from Kenny game assets, a really amazing free library of art you can use when making a game. That makes it hard to know if he’s planning on shipping with those or if it’s just a quick way to prototype something that is easy on the eyes while in development.

🤔 👕 I beat #Mojole #344 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 💚💚🖤🖤🖤 💛🖤🖤🖤🖤 💛🖤🖤💛🖤 🖤🖤💛🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

👕 I beat #Mojole #343 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 6/6 💚💚🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 💛🖤💛🖤🖤 🖤🖤💛💛🖤 🖤🖤💛🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

It’s also worth editing the first post to include all of them as they’re uploaded. great series! This is awesome

WOW 👕 I beat #Mojole #341 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤💛💛🖤🖤 💛💚🖤🖤🖤 🖤💚💛🖤💛 💛💚🖤💛💛 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Same, I think. 👕 I beat #Mojole #340 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 4/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤💛 🖤💛💛🖤💛 💚💚💚💛💚 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

The game is almost built like a responsive website. If you play it on an ultrawide display you can also get extra widescreen content here and there. The crop can change dynamically depending on the ratio. This must have been done with phones/tablets in mind, where there are no set ratios but modern devices range from about 19:9 to something around 4:3.

I think this is the original cover? The only actually good one of the bunch. the actual first edition has that cover and also has good typography. It’s weird watching the look of this book rot away over the decades by way of this thread. Example: (not my copy)

👕 I beat #Mojole #308 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤💛 💛🖤🖤💚💚 💛🖤🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

What the hell does this even mean?