Mark (in the center) at PAX with Ryan Jones and Dave Grossman on his flanks
So here we are today talking this time to a truly accomplished adventure game designer who has gone from small, but great indie productions (Nick Bounty!!!) to become one of the lead creative forces at Telltale Games. Mark Darin after leading the design on the Strong Bad games is co-creating all the big titles currently in progress, including Tales of Monkey Island and the future Sam & Max episodes. As always we started the interview with the most difficult question. Next we started to differentiate between indie games and Telltale games which may be not entirely fair as Telltale is all independent as far as I know, just maybe a bit bigger than Mark’s own company Pinhead Games. Oh, and Pinhead‘s games are freeware. (more…)
Tags: A Case of the Crabs, A Goat in The Gray Fedora, Dangeresque, Dave Grossman, Indie Games, LeChuck, LucasArts, Mark Darin, Mike Stemmle, Monkey Island, Nick Bounty, Pinhead Games, Ron Gilbert, Strong Bad, Tales of Monkey Island, Telltale Games, The Siege of Spinner Cay
Well I was a sucker. I pre-ordered Tales of Monkey Island. I mean, how could you not when Steve Purcell himself promised us an awesome DVD cover, and one at this level of coolness! Once again I answered the call of duty from Igor to review another complete masterpiece – The Siege of Spinner Cay. A game that starts epic and ends epic will full promise of an amazing 3rd episode to come! It is highly recommended that you finish playing the first episode before reading ahead! Thar be spoilers on the Horizon!
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Tags: creepy, Dave Grossman, Elaine Marley, episodic gaming, Escape from Monkey Island, Flotsam Island, LeChuck, LucasArts, Mark Darin, Michael Land, mighty pirate, Mike Stemmle, Monkey Island, Ron Gilbert, Tales of Monkey Island, Telltale Games, The Siege of Spinner Cay, winslow
