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HUMONGOUS HUMONGOUS GAMES BUNDLE AVAILABLE FOR ANOTHER 12 DAYS 17 MAR, 2024 / 0
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Terrible Toybox News
By Kroms
Humble Bundle is bundling Humongous Entertainment adventure games, including
Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam. You can grab the lot for as little as
$14.99.
Humongous Entertainment was founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day after their
departure from LucasArts. The company developed adventure games aimed at
children, with credits listing ex-LucasArts talent like Dave Grossman and Annie
Fox on the regular. Ron Gilbert's especially proud of his games at Humongous.
If that all sounds like fun or you have young children you want to corrupt into
playing adventure games, now's your chance.
Source: Humble Bundle
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DOUBLE FINE'S HEADLANDER IS BEING DELISTED, SO GRAB IT BEFORE IT'S GONE 17 MAR,
2024 / 0 COMMENTS
Double Fine News
By Kroms
Heads up: Retrofuturist Metroidvania Headlander, developed by Double Fine and
released by Adult Swim games in 2016 for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac, is heading
off of platforms...well, soon. Certainly before May. This is all part of the
C-suite conniving happening behind-the-scenes at Warner Bros. that's seeing
movies, shows, and now video games axed off for debt reasons that make sense to
the money people.
If you want Headlander before it lands itself at the chopping block, head to GOG
or Steam.
Source: The Verge
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LIMITED RUN GAMES QUIETLY ENACTS LOOM REPARATIONS 12 MAR, 2024 / 5 COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By Jason
As we’ve previously complained, Limited Run’s Loom Collector’s Edition package
comes with a USB stick that is conspicuously missing the game’s EGA build. This
despite assurances that it would be on there. In fact, it seems they just ended
up dropping the grossly insufficient GOG fileset on the thumb stick and calling
it a day, as if you didn’t fork over $75 for the damned thing.
Fortunately, the company is prepared to make good, even though it’s all being
handled in a weird, coquettish way. What you do is head on over to Support and
submit a request, order number in hand, to receive the missing files. You will
then be given access to a Dropbox link that could conservatively be called the
motherlode -- a 9GB treasure trove encompassing a ton of archival builds of the
game, including every international version that a global search could round up,
demos, patches, the audio drama, and scans of documentation like manuals and the
Book and Patterns (in as many languages as could be uncovered), all of it no
doubt cobbled together by the tireless and inconsistently credited efforts of
Laserschwert.
It’s quite the nifty directory structure, and also a pretty decent model of
exactly what Lucasfilm ought to be offering in the first place when you buy the
SCUMM games on digital platforms. But after all, the nine additional seconds
they would have had to spend to prepare complete copies of their classics is
time they wouldn’t have been able to spend making Guybrush look like a
Dreamworks Douche™:
Anyway, I really think you guys could stand to stop being so bitter about this
and just claim your files. All’s well that ends well.
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BENNY’S PENANCE 06 MAR, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
Community News
By Rémi
If you’ve been one of those who’ve wondered why Quick and Easy’s “EMI Background
Viewer” hasn’t worked with the PS2 version of Escape from Monkey Island, wonder
no more. And celebrate that it once again works:
Now give Benzo your forgiveness, and run and download the software. Run, I said!
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TWENTY YEARS AFTER DEATH, SAM & MAX 2 IS STILL DEAD 03 MAR, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
House of Mojo News
By Jason
In the realm of fringe dorkdom, few catastrophes resonate more rancidly and/or
amusingly than the cancellation of Sam & Max: Freelance Police on March 3rd,
2004.
Yup, it’s been twenty years now, and what better way to mark this bittersweet
anniversary than by cracking open our pitiful memoir on the topic for a re-read.
Or at least to gawp shamelessly at Bill Eaken’s artwork for it, conveniently
available with and without text. Frankly, if you don’t already have that thing
framed in your house, a question is inescapably raised: Are you even Proper
Mojo™?
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LUCASFILM RECALLS THAT IT ONCE MADE VIDEO GAMES WITH TOAST TO FATE OF ATLANTIS
01 MAR, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By Jason
Lucasfilm.com is back with more token appreciation of their rich back catalogue,
an exercise just unwonted enough to remain suspicious. The latest installment of
“Lucasfilm Games Rewind,” which is, one ascertains, a thing, celebrates the 1992
graphic adventure classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Sure, it’s a bit thin, but a relationship with an estranged dad, however frigid
and uncomfortable, doesn’t have to be without positive gestures, even if it all
ultimately sours back to bitterness and despair. Wait, sorry, that was not at
all the point I was trying to make.
Anyway, Indiana and the Fate of Atlantis is available from Steam and GOG.com.
Source: Lucasfilm.com
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MORE DETAILS DROP ON THE DARK FORCES REMASTER 27 FEB, 2024 / 3 COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By jp-30
Eurobricks have had some hands on time with the forthcoming Nightdive Studios
remaster of Star Wars: Dark Forces. There's lots of context on the history of
the game and how it stacked up against contemporaries like Doom.
Every inch of the game's artwork has received a complete revamp. Whether we're
talking about weapon sprites, enemy characters, world textures or cutscenes,
everything has been recreated in higher resolution. The artwork retains the
pixel art aesthetic, but sees a dramatic increase in resolution that better fits
modern displays. I think it looks gorgeous and is among the best work Nightdive
has done in this space. When you gaze upon the new skyboxes, for instance,
you'll instantly recognise each one from its original design, yet each is also
so much richer in detail. It's a true love letter to the original art design.
Pew pew pew, it'll soon be time to get your pre-Jedi Kyle Katarn on. Also hello
Remi, it's me, JP!
Source: Eurogamer
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THE SCUMM BAR WILL BE YOUR MONKEY ISLAND TRIVIA HUCKLEBERRY 22 FEB, 2024 / 0
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Community News
By Jason
It’s been a long runway, but it seems The SCUMM Bar, founded in 1996, is finally
starting to hit its stride. If it’s escaped your notice that it’s been seriously
upping its Trivia game for the past month or so, well, it’s probably a good
thing we were here to point it out.
Heck, even ReMI trivia as oven-fresh as this divulgence from Dave Grossman only
yesterday has been accordingly filed into the site’s downright show-offy new
Trivia Viewer infrastructure. Clearly, our motivational criticism has been
heeded. We do what we can. As for you, now could be the time to flatten out the
creases of your Phatt Island library card (Footnote: Yes, I know that reference
would make more sense for a site called The Bloody Lip Bar. Calm down. We're
doing the best we can here.) and patronize The Bar as a regular once more and
always.
Source: The SCUMM Bar
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MORE YOU SAY? HAL BARWOOD INTERVIEWED ABOUT FATE OF ATLANTIS 20 FEB, 2024 / 2
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LucasArts News
By jp-30
Enough of the YouTube videos I hear you say. We want to read. We want to read
about the development of LucasArts classic point and click adventure "Indiana
Jones and the Fate of Atlantis", and we want to hear it from the director and
co-designer Hal Barwood.
We want quotes such as:
Yeah, so what happened is that they had a rejected script by Christopher
Columbus for another Indiana Jones movie and they thought it was good enough for
a game.
Noah was kind of my mentor on this project a little bit, and we realized that it
was a terrible script for a video game. It was obscure it was all going to take
place in Africa where there was a Chinese influence and it was going to be about
something called The Monkey King. We just couldn’t figure out how that was going
to be very interesting.
Fine, here you go.
Source: Time Extension
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ANNIE FOX, TOO, RECEIVES HER TECHTALK SUMMONS 18 FEB, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
Community News
By Jason
Being a Zak McKracken aficionado, you already know that Annie Fox is the
namesake of Zak’s principal ally in The National Video Game of Germany, and you
may also know that she and David Fox are the forces behind Electric Eggplant.
But if you really want to go deep into Fox’s career as an educator, game
designer, and New Media maven – which is inclusive of contributions to the
Putt-Putt series for Humongous Entertainment, you’re not going to want to settle
for less than her new interview with Daniel Albu. That promo for the Marin
Computer Center at 3:47 alone may have more historical value than the Magna
Carta.
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CLINT CHATS 18 FEB, 2024 / 3 COMMENTS
Community News
By Rémi
Much as I tried, I couldn’t find a good pun for “Bajakian,” so my apologies for
the vanilla headline. But he does chat, Clint! For four-and-a-half hours.
Interesting as I’m sure it is, I haven’t started it yet because… four-and-a-half
hours. One handsome man’s unsolicited opinion is that something like this is
better suited for podcasts, a medium designed for chunk-sized on-the-move
consumption. I’m sure listeners gladly would chip in on Patreon, too, just for
the convenience.
But, if YouTube is what we got, then that’s what we’ll try to watch.
And speaking of Patreon…
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EGA BETRAYAL STAINS LOOM RELEASE, ASSASSINATES INNOCENCE WORLDWIDE 13 FEB, 2024
/ 1 COMMENT
LucasArts News
By Jason
You all remember Limited Run Games’ rather promising-looking Loom package back
in January of last year. True to the average turnaround time, it began shipping
just recently.
Loom has long suffered a pretty compromised position in terms of availability.
Like other SCUMM games that debuted with EGA graphics but received a subsequent
VGA treatment (Last Crusade and Monkey 1), the latter eventually became defacto.
Loom’s VGA version is unique, however, as it was also LucasArts’ earliest foray
into “Talkie” editions. This prototypical effort relied on CD audio, which
resulted in excellent sample quality (far better than LucasArts games would
boast for years afterward, in fact), but with brutal trade-offs: the struggle to
animate lip-syncing led to the game’s signature close-up artworks being almost
entirely eliminated, while space limitations prompted an economic rewrite of the
entire dialog script – without the involvement of its original project leader.
In essence, the original game was replaced by what might be called a novelty
version; to date, the legal copy of Loom you can buy on Steam or GOG is this CD
Talkie revamp, not the game that Brian Moriarty actually presided over in 1990,
and which is often considered the apex of what could be wrung out of a 16-color
palette.
So you can imagine the relief when it was revealed that the USB stick included
as part of the Limited Run Games release would have the EGA build tossed in.
Except, not so fast. Two reports from customers who have received their package
seem to confirm that this supposed inclusion fell to slaughter, like so many
Glassmakers under the Great Scythe.
Heartbreaking. It’s enough to temporarily put one off their arbitrary SCUMM Bar
feud.
Source: The Forums
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CONVERSATIONS WITH LUCASARTS ALUMNI CONTINUE TO BE LOGGED 10 FEB, 2024 / 0
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LucasArts News
By Jason
Getting old ain’t for the cowardly. With bones that crack when we so much as try
to lift a yellow flower petal, it isn’t easy for we front page custodians to
keep up with the hiatus-free Tech Talk parade, which is why we always recommend
keeping tabs on the forum thread.
But the tortoise wins the race in the end, or something, and we’re here to catch
you up on Daniel Albu's latest interviews. First up is Ken Macklin, illustrator
extraordinaire best known for the Maniac Mansion cover art and his regrettably
scrapped backgrounds for the first version of The Dig. Just recently, some
incredible promotional art he did during the early Lucasfilm Games years
emerged, so it's very much the Month[-ish] of Macklin. Here’s the interview:
Next up is Charlie Ramos, who served as animator on Outlaws (Lead Animator, in
fact), Full Throttle and The Dig. And that's another theme: The Dig war stories.
Honor your veterans:
Source: Tech Talk with Daniel Albu
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SETTLE THE MOST URGENT UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN YOUR LIFE WITH THE REMI
ACHIEVEMENTS GUIDE 10 FEB, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By Jason
While the Good Neighbor policy that Thrik enacted upon starting his term
(Footnote: Possibly a misnomer, as his “term” has limits in the same way Putin’s
does.) as CEO (after the mass layoffs, of course) has been indicted by some as a
performative and cynical device for Mojo to applaud its own virtuousness, it
does carry the benefit of promoting fellow fan sites when they’re delivering the
goods.
One of the “advantages” of a Monkey Island game being released into the modern
world is that it’s loaded to the gills with achievements, a promise that Return
to Monkey Island more than made good on. The question remains: how are you
possibly going to keep track of them all? Why, with the elaborate achievements
guide published by legendofmi.com, of course. Hopefully this sort of thrown
gauntlet encourages the Monkey Island fan sites that tend to rest on their
laurels to up their game, but you don’t drop coins into a wishing well with the
expectation of getting a return on your investment, after all.
Update: The SCUMM Bar claps back.
Source: The Legend of Monkey Island
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DREAMM 3.0 NOW OPEN FOR BETA TESTING 10 FEB, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By Jason
Your most valued friend Aaron Giles is back to give you first crack at an
upcoming version of DREAMM. Version 3.0 Beta includes a ton of new supported
games and features. Frankly, it’s too much to list out – let’s just say those
lonely, Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game-free nights are over – so you just as
soon head on down to the web site for the details and your obligatory download.
Be sure to share your findings and/or gratitude in the corresponding forum
thread. Now go forth and enjoy a privilege previously only known to the royal
family: Roland upgrades and simulated CRT scanlines.
Source: DREAMM
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RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND DEEMED OLD ENOUGH TO GET A DOCUMENTARY 06 FEB, 2024 / 0
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LucasArts News
By Jason
The game documentarians at Noclip have chosen as their latest subject Return to
Monkey Island, a natural for this sort of retrospective seeing as it’s now
roughly as distant an event as the First World War.
Since Noclip had the good sense to involve Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman, Jenn
Sandercock, David Fox, Rex Crowle and Dominic Armato as talking heads, it was
inevitable that it would be good. Proceed therefore with burning the next 90
minutes in the security that the investment carries the Mojo Seal of Approval.
Source: Noclip
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PSYCHONAUTS 2 ART GOES DIGITAL, ANALOGUE 03 FEB, 2024 / 0 COMMENTS
Double Fine News
By Rémi
If you’re anything like me, you glance past most backer emails, because… well,
there’s really no “good” reason to do so, but here we are. Long story
short—yesterday's Psychonauts 2 email was one I actually did read, and it was
worth the thirty-second effort. In it comes word that the Art of Psychonauts 2
has gone digital and is available in your Humble Bundle account right now. And
the 402-page monster is pretty damn impressive.
And the motherlode hardback is "in the mail"—the same excuse we use for the
Christmas-bonus cheques around these parts.
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LEGO MONKEY ISLAND—A GOOD IDEA? 27 JAN, 2024 / 3 COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By Rémi
There’s an official LEGO site called LEGO IDEAS, which is exactly what you’d
expect it to be: A place where people can post ideas for future LEGO products.
If the idea reaches 1,000 (update: 10,000) votes, it will be reviewed by the
LEGO Illuminati and potentially become the real deal. I admittedly know Jack
about LEGO, but elTee does, and he excitedly posted this little gem (not to
Mojo, but… ¬¬):
Even got the idols!
If that’s not enough to sell you, check out this video:
That’s right, the sucker opens.
The set has 259 votes at the time of writing, but after being Mojoed, I think
it’s safe to say this will happen within the next two years or so. Go vote
Update! As pointed out by gdeligne in the comments, the LEGO idea requires
10,000, not 1,000 votes. What’s an extra zero amongst friends anyway?
Source: LucasTones
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MORE INDY DETAILS FUEL MOJO’S DELUSION OF RENEWED PURPOSE 18 JAN, 2024 / 3
COMMENTS
LucasArts News
By Jason
You’ve seen the videos, now it’s time to read the articles.
First up is an interview with game director Jerk Gustafsson featuring all the
unflinching gossip and hard-hitting questions you’d expect from Lucasfilm.com.
Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly confirms that Indy is being performed by Troy
Baker, known for playing a guy name Joel in that game The Last of Us, and
context clues suggest that people who are familiar with video games made since
Obama’s second term are going to find that exciting. For the rest of us, we’ll
be replacing all the lines in our heads with Doug Lee.
And while you’re at it you might as well check out the game’s press release over
at the official Bethesda site, which also includes the first screenshots.
Naturally, Mojo already has them all gallery’d up, because we pull out all the
stops for our readership.
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INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE GETS GAMEPLAY TRAILER AND SURPRISINGLY
IMMINENT RELEASE 18 JAN, 2024 / 1 COMMENT
LucasArts News
By Jason
Yup, that’s really the title. The game is due out by the end of this year on PC
and Xbox Whichever One We’re On. Without further ado, here's the goods:
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