Curse of Monkey Island (Classic Edition)

[Cyrus7]

There are a couple of hilarious images in the listen to me monkey island articles.

Some more images:

 

[bakana]

This project is really cool, and I like where it's going so far. I think, like the OP, I'm one of the few who was seriously disappointed by the art direction in CMI after being spoiled by Steve Purcell's amazing work in the first two games.

 

Anyway, one obvious thing that is flattening out this background, making it look too clean, and making it not fit the aesthetic of the old games is the black outlines. CMI's cartoon images had sharp outlines. The painted images in MI2 didn't, really.

 

 

See this image? The only place you can make out dark outlines is in really high-contrast areas like the house on the left. And even then, the lines aren't as hard/pixellated as in the background you're working on.

 

An easy solution would be to lighten the outlines, perhaps just making them a darker shade of the base color of the object they're outlining.

 

A difficult solution would be to make a beautiful Steve Purcell-level background painting, scan it, scale it, and put it in!

[MusicallyInspired]

Really nice work - I hope this is okay, but I had a bit of a mess around in photoshop, gave it darker/moodier contrast and darkened to wood.

 

 

That looks nice! Maybe a bit dark, but the wood actually looks like wood now! Definitely more moody and dramatic as well.

 

I decided to spruce it up a bit.

 

This looks just a little bit too blurry. And too bland as well. Not enough contrast in the colours and lighting.

[Jackpumpkinhead]

Really nice work - I hope this is okay, but I had a bit of a mess around in photoshop, gave it darker/moodier contrast and darkened to wood.

 

 

this one is great

it is just a little too dark

if i could get a combo of this one and monkey mania's

i will work on it too

[NoTaMu]

Monkey Mania's + 45 brightness/100 contrast on photoshop

[Monkey Mania]

I think that's a tad too saturated.

How's this?

[Aububuh]

I think that's a tad too saturated.

How's this?

 

I think that's perfect.

[MusicallyInspired]

That's good. It just needs to lose a lot of those black outlines on various objects like the door and window and replace them with highlighted/shaded lines instead.

 

This screen is really coming along nicely.

[Jackpumpkinhead]

update to the demo on the main page

[MusicallyInspired]

That link to the demo seems to take forever and never loads properly. I can't even get the page to load to press the download button.

[Jackpumpkinhead]

i just tested it on a different computer

works fine.

if you still have trouble let me know

[Monkey Mania]

That demo is awesome!

[MusicallyInspired]

Mediafire was still incredibly slow, but I managed to download it ok at a decent speed once the download link finally appeared.

[MusicallyInspired]

Wonderful demo! Really made me want to play the whole thing! Excellent animation as well!

[Scabb dude]

Just tested the new demo, great project!

[Threepwood42]

Just looked at it. This looks really awesome. Are you planning on ripping the VOs from the original Curse and making this a Talkie-Old School? Or keeping it super old school without voice overs?

[MusicallyInspired]

I'd say it'd be fine (and less copyright infringing) without the voices. It'd be a lot of work to go through every line of dialogue in the whole game. It would be a fairly large download as well. Just as well to do without it.

[Monkey Mania]

With games approaching 20GB these days, it's not big at all.

[MusicallyInspired]

Even for a fangame download? It's just not worth the effort and it's not needed. And it'd be less illegal, like I said. Even though the whole thing is illegal, really...there's a lot less chance you'd get shut down if you didn't use them.

[Scabb dude]

It's an "old school edition", who needs voice-overs?

[Jackpumpkinhead]

Even for a fangame download? It's just not worth the effort and it's not needed. And it'd be less illegal, like I said. Even though the whole thing is illegal, really...there's a lot less chance you'd get shut down if you didn't use them.

 

its not illegal yet

i am just doing the one room demo for now

and that is free on the lucasarts website

[MusicallyInspired]

Technically, it's still illegal since it bares the name Monkey Island and its characters and LucasArts would be well within their rights to cease & desist and/or sue you.

 

But you probably won't get in trouble over it. Doesn't make it no illegal, though.

[Jackpumpkinhead]

they would be wasting their time. if nothing else i am helping lucasarts

by reinvigorating the fans to want to play the old games and therefore

spending money on the new games. besides its not like they are loosing any money by me making this. they have made all the money there is to be made on CMI. they don't even sell CMI anymore. i could understand them suing me or telling me to stop if i was selling this. but i'm not. its just for fun.

[Jackpumpkinhead]

Just a small update on the progress

I am almost finished with the main cannon room

I will be working on outside the ship next

if anyone is willing to help let me know

[Scabb dude]

What do you need?