A dozen days after the great announcement of the return of Secret of Monkey Island by his original authors, Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman took the time to chat with the Adventure Gamers site to offer us some details about the project.
"Y the games after Monkey Island 2 do not exist in my universe Monkey Island", had decreed Ron Gilbert in 2013, at a time when the author of Maniac Mansion, The Cave and Thimbleweed Park imagined never to have the 'Opportunity to reconnect with the Lucasfilm Games license, but had even spent time drawing out what would be "his" Monkey Island 3. and a few years later, the man held over: Return To Monkey Island will begin exactly as he had considered it for years, namely since the memorable and enigmatic end of Monkey Island 2 , imagined there is more than 30 years ago.
"One very important things for me was that I wanted the game to start at the end of Monkey Island 2, when you enter the amusement park. I wanted the game to start there. I do not want to enter into All the details, but we start there, and then there are a lot of bizarre twists as you can expect coming from us ", confirms Ron Gilbert. To explain to each of which he returns, the best is to regain the terms of Julien Pirou in his Retro Island dedicated to the series:
"This confrontation leads to a bizarre and confusing end, that some have compared to the annoyances of Brazil or Twin Peaks. We discover that Lechuck and Guybrush would actually be two children, two brothers playing pirates in an amusement park... or not? In short, a real brain reversal, open to multiple interpretations. And since Ron Gilbert left Lucasarts soon after to found his own company, Humongous Entertainment, and therefore did not realize his own Monkey Island 3 to answer to the questions left outstanding, many players have remained a little circumspective.
Compared to its 2013 Wish List, Ron Gilbert conceded some gaps, the first being to have renown with Monkey Island without being in possession of the franchise as he would have liked. In the absence of redeeming Disney, the author was satisfied with finding sufficient creative freedom. The opportunity whose fans dreamed was introduced during the 2019 PAX, during a discussion with Nigel Lowrie Devolver Digital, himself close to John Drake, former Playstation who had just been appointed Vice President. Load of Disney license adaptations into video game. The spark was born before the start of the pandemic and it was in December 2019 that Ron Gilbert began to evoke the project with his friend Author Dave Grossman to seriously discuss what would be a new Monkey Island.
Some may be wondering what Ron Gilbert has done professionally for the three years separating the exit from Thimbleweed Park and the beginning of the project Return to Monkey Island . We learn that the author had started working on a RPG for a year, but without ever happening to something satisfying. The project was therefore abandoned even if Ron Gilbert does not exclude to return once the page Return to Monkey Island Tour. As for Dave Grossman, he was starting to find the long time at Earplay and jumped on the occasion after hearing the magic words "Monkey Island", his enthusiasm even helping to hunt the few doubts and worries of Ron Gilbert.
So terrible toybox (the name of the studio of Ron Gilbert), Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games have been perfectly kept secretive since all this time, the fact is that the development of Return to Monkey Island is coming to an end, the game Being expected in 2022. According to Ron Gilbert, the developer team had 25 people at the peak of production, as this figure is less important since the bulk of the work has been accomplished. The development of Return to Monkey Island required more artists and facilitators compared to Thimbleweed Park , whose workforce has not exceeded 14 people, remembers Ron Gilbert. The budget was also more important and all the team members realized the teleworking game by setting a limit of 40 hours a week. With some overflow but no Crunch, promise.
Candide from end to end, the interview also teaches us how Rex Crowle, former key element of media molecule where he did the memorable Tearaway, found himself in the orders of the artistic direction of Return to Monkey Island Not thanks to his fame in the video game industry but thanks to a fan creation carried out 15 years ago:
"It had made a version of Guybrush in blocks, and he sent me a long time ago, in 2007 or 2008. I remember he sent me, and I did not know at all who he was , just a guy who sent me from the fanarts. I really liked it and I made my wallpaper for a long time. When I started thinking about Secret of Monkey Island, I remembered what Point this picture was striking. So I started looking for his name on Google and I realized that he had done Knights and Bikes and other things I did not know about. Then I sent him a E-mail ", says Ron Gilbert.
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