#Design - CustomCoverArt PC Loom, Day of the Tentacle, Indy Infernal Machine & Emperor's Tomb v2

Please! Do not ask for these! This was a personal job, not outsourcing the work to other people. If you want me to work out something for you, I will do so for money only.

I decided recently to revamp some of my older covers (I had done for my bro) for my own updated gaming collection lately. Specifically, I redid some of my old LucasArts classics. I think I'm much better at this now. I also had access to better higher res art for the cover layouts.

As usual, comments disabled here to avoid the spam I get on these.

Design © Eyz 2022.
Original product and work based on a propriety © LucasArts
Not for commercial use!

#GamingNEWS Return to Monkey Island - Official Announcement Trailer

I hadn't posted the "Monkey Island 6" trailer over here YET, but I gotta I'm hyped!

Devolver Digital makes great games. Ron Rilbert is back to helm the series. It's another classic 2D point and click again, which is a nice return to form even though I love Escape and Tales. And it's appartently already coming this year!!

Even though the game is a mystery, we also know Michael Land is back on music duty and Dominic Armato as well as Guybrush.

#Blog #MonkeyIsland Anthology Collection from Limited Run

So I recently received this beautiful collector Anthology Collection from Limited Run. The Monkey Island Anthology!

I remember pre-ordering this a whole full year ago.. but it was worth the wait. (Except for a little weird  error, more on that below..)

Yeah, so I already had the entire Monkey Island series on PC.. but now I got it twice!

Anyways, the collector is also a huge excuse to get all these little awesome goodies, long time fans will recognize all these references.

Numbered LRG edition, signed by Ron Gilbert!

This book is awesome, full of behind the scenes stuff and details!

They made the funny missing floppy for real?? Plus the content's also on the USB key.

I wasn't expecting much from this Guybrush figure, but he looks fantastic!

Best frame ever.

My only complaint? A weird error in the listing of the games on the side... I mean, didn't anyone check this before it went to print??

 And now, here's my entire Monkey Island collection:

Enjoy!

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Drawn without reference material, apparently.

(Click for bigger pic)

Sam & Max © Steve Purcell

#DeletedScenes - Star Wars 1313

With the acquisition of Star Wars by Disney the franchise finally got some life brought into it and several new projects were quickly put into motion.

Sadly, some other older ones got shoved aside and finally scrapped for good.

#Interview - The Last Witch Hunter: Elijah Wood

Through this ScreenRant interview for the upcoming The Last Witch Hunter, I just found out Elijah Wood is a big adventure games nerd:



The Dig is awesome!

#Blog - Yaarrrr, today be "International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2014"!! #talklikeapirateday

Arrrrrrrrrrr!!

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day, matey!

So grab some Grog! And y'aaAAAAARR!!!

International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2014

#MusicBOX - Monkey Island Theme on Guitar

It's been far too long since I last checked out for fan covers of Monkey Island songs.

Here's one on the guitar by hankhuf:



Fantastic work! Well done^^

VGR Monkey Island 4

It's time to return to Monkey Island where we last left it.

It might not be the best adventure game ever, but that doesn't change how enjoyable a ride this is.

Don't miss out my previous Monkey Island-related reviews!

Secret of Monkey Island / LeChuck's Revenge / Curse of Monkey Island

#Drawings - Talk Like a Pirate-day '12

Hi thar, scurvy dogs!
Today be pirate day.
ARRRRrrrr!!

Here's a fine lookin' lass for t'day!
Morgan LeFlay of Tales of Monkey Island fame.
ARRRRrrrr!!

VGR The Curse of Monkey Island

And finally after all this time, I decided to go back to some of my older interrupted review series!

Time for some adventure, bucaneers!
Time to spill some blood and drink some grog!
Time for swashbuckling action!
Time to explore MONKEY ISLAND 3! 

Don't miss out my previous Monkey Island-related reviews!

Secret of Monkey Island
LeChuck's Revenge 

#StarWars NEWS! that new Star Wars game sure is looking amazing!

Check out this video, which looks like something pre-rendered in CGi.
It's from the upcoming LucasArts title Star Wars 1313. I know, it looks nothing like what you would expect from actual in-game footage in a game, but I wasn't expecting anything less. It's perfectly normal for a title running on the all-new Unreal Engine 3.9!



Why does it looks like this might play like those Army of Two games I like so much?

Also, notice the lack of PS3 or Xbox 360 logo at the end. No wonder people are assuming this might end up being a next next gen title!

#E3 NEWS! Bounty Hunters and #StarWars - again!

Well, this one's certainly looking nice!
LucasArts just finally revealed the long rumored new Star Wars game... and it's mostly what people expected, and then some!

Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert discuss about adventure games

Not just glad to have launched a successful kickstarter project, Double Fine's Tim Schafer made this little video in which he and classic adventure game legend Ron Gilbert discuss about the genre and their carreer at LucasArts.

A very nice insight video with lots of little trivia and memories from the golden age of the genre, enjoy!



I really hope this turns out good, but the best of the genre's been coming from Europe these last bunch of years mostly.

Let's see what these master can come up with!~

FanMusic - Monkey Island 2's Jojo The Monkey on the accordion

Since I recently posted this song from Monkey Island 2 a day or two ago, here's what is without a doubt my all-time favorite fan-cover of a game music. Ever.



It's been a favorite of mine since I first saw it a couple years ago!
I even made a shortcut on my keyboard just to launch it whenever, shortcut I've been keeping and carrying over when I changed computer and all.

Cover by Schadstoffmobil who sadly only uploaded a video on youtube since 2008.

MusicBox - "Jojo the Monkey"

Here's a very memorable musical piece from Monkey Island 2.

Some people dare say that in the old "retro" age, video games didn't have good music. But I dare to ask those same people this below isn't a fantastic composition!



RIP Jojo, the monkey.

XD

Pic of the day - Tim Schafer and Al Lowe

Here's something epic!
Mario & Sonic together at last-level of epic.

It's Tim Schafer (from LucasArts' classic Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc.) and Al Lowe (From Sierra's classic Leisure Suit Larry, Freddy Pharkas,..) next to each other!

Photo taken at this year's DICE 2012. (a game developer expo)

Both adventure games legends finally met while while filming an episode of The Bonus Round today.

Tim's doing pretty okay at the moment, at Double Fine. What with raising money for a brand new modern point & click game and going to finally produce a sequel to Psychonauts.

Meanwhile, Al Lowe's still trying to finish his adventure game Sam Suede and his currently overlooking the remakes of the Leisure Suit Larry games.

Drawings - JAM Session November

Remember those?

I asked you guys and gals for your ideas and suggestions...
And you answered it here!

Here's some ideas I picked up to draw this time around.

Music - Metropole Orchestra does "The Curse of Monkey Island"~

This is easily the most amazing piece of music I've heard all year!!
Excuse me, the second biggest piece of music I've heard all year :P

Woah! Just.. WOAH!!!

Here's the Metropole Orchestra playing the opening theme from The Curse of Monkey Island.
Yup.



Anyway, see how epic this is?
Amazing!!
I'll be listening to this all day long~

Adventure Gaming

Here's the post in which I talk A LOT about the adventure genre.

Sure, adventure games seem to be coming back lately, with the LucasArts remakes and Telltale Games Studio's success...
But they've never really been away. It's indie studios like Autumn Moon (ex-LucasArts' Bill Tiller), Revolution Software (Broken Sword series) & Péndulo Studios (Runaway series) that kept the flame alive during the whole 2000s while nobody wanted to make these games anymore.

Adventure games. Be it Point-and-clicks or not.
The genre is often misattributed to games like Tomb Raider or Uncharted, for exemple.
I prefer to call those action games, platformers or even action-adventure.

No, those ain't real adventure games.

 

You fight like a guy who's trying to explain me how adventure games were and how they ended up today!

The adventure genre grew up side by side with what we call now RPGs.

While the consoles had games like Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy and many more 8-bit RPGs, home computers developed a parallel genre, less action-based since the controllers were keyboards (and later, mouses) and much more story driven.